- Book: Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- Book: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
- Exercising during learning improves vocabulary acquisition: behavioral and ERP evidence
- The Effect of Acute Aerobic and Resistance Exercise on Working Memory.
- Exercise: a behavioral intervention to enhance brain health and plasticity
- A systematic review of conservative treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
- A Single Bout of Exercise Improves Motor Memory
- The effect of a single aerobic training session on cognitive flexibility in late middle-aged adults
- Exercise and working memory: an individual differences investigation
- Plasticity of Executive Control through Task Switching Training in Adolescents
- Effects of acute bouts of exercise on cognition
References & Further Reading
Effects of Exercise on the Brain
The Benefits of Micro-Breaks and Short Bouts of Exercise
- Book: The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
- Too much sitting: a novel and important predictor of chronic disease risk?
- Integration of Short Bouts of Physical Activity Into Organizational Routine: A Systematic Review of the Literature
- Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT)
- Lipoprotein particle distribution and skeletal muscle lipoprotein lipase acitivty after acute exercise
- Reducing Occupational Sitting Time and Improving Worker Health: The Take-a-Stand Project, 2011
- Hours spent and energy expended in physical activity domains: results from the Tomorrow Project cohort in Alberta, Canada
Effects Leisure Activity and NEAT on Health
- Effect of intensity and type of physical activity on mortality: results from the Whitehall II cohort study
- Leisure time physical activity of moderate to vigorous intensity and mortality: a large pooled cohort analysis
- Incidental physical activity is positively associated with cardiorespiratory fitness
- Differences in daily energy expenditure in lean and obese women: the role of posture allocation
- Exercise intensity influences nonexercise activity thermogenesis in overweight and obese adults
- Neuroregulation of nonexercise activity thermogenesis and obesity resistance
- Role of nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) in obesity
- Nonexercise activity thermogenesis: a way forward to treat the worldwide obesity epidemic
- Nonexercise activity thermogenesis--liberating the life-force
- Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Mortality in Older Adults
General Exercise For Back Pain
- Book: Exercise Therapy in the Management of Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Mayo Clinic
- National Institutes of Health
- American Academy of Othopedic Surgeons
- Back to Fitness Programme: The manual for physiotherapists to set up the classes
- Evaluation of a specific home exercise program for low back pain
- Comparing yoga, exercise, and a self-care book for chronic low back pain: a randomized, controlled trial
- A systematic review on the effectiveness of physical and rehabilitation interventions for chronic non-specific low back pain
Pilates For Back Pain
- Book: Back RX: A 15-Minute-a-Day Yoga- and Pilates-Based Program to End Low Back Pain
- Two different techniques in the rehabilitation treatment of low back pain: a randomized controlled trial
- Pilates-based therapeutic exercise: effect on subjects with nonspecific chronic low back pain and functional disability: a randomized controlled trial
- The efficacy of the addition of the Pilates method over a minimal intervention in the treatment of chronic nonspecific low back pain: a study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
- Treating non-specific chronic low back pain through the Pilates Method
- Effects of Pilates-based exercises on pain and disability in individuals with persistent nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis
- Comparing the Pilates method with no exercise or lumbar stabilization for pain and functionality in patients with chronic low back pain: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Laboratory gait analysis in patients with low back pain before and after a pilates intervention
Yoga For Wrist Pain
- Effectiveness of hand therapy interventions in primary management of carpal tunnel syndrome: a systematic review
- Non-surgical treatment (other than steroid injection) for carpal tunnel syndrome
- Yoga-based intervention for carpal tunnel syndrome: A randomized trial
- A systematic review of conservative treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome
Effects of Exercise Intensity on Health
- Intensity versus duration of cycling, impact on all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality: the Copenhagen City Heart Study
- Similar metabolic adaptations during exercise after low volume sprint interval and traditional endurance training in humans
- Low-volume interval training improves muscle oxidative capacity in sedentary adults
- Acute high-intensity interval exercise reduces the postprandial glucose response and prevalence of hyperglycaemia in patients with type 2 diabetes
Muscle Activation Using Electromyographic Analysis
- Systematic review of core muscle electromyographic activity during physical fitness exercises
- Effects of different segmental spinal stabilization exercise protocols on postural stability in asymptomatic subjects: Randomized controlled trial
- Muscle Activation of Different Core Exercises
- Core Muscle Activation During Swiss Ball and Traditional Abdominal Exercises
- The effects of different sit- and curl-up positions on activation of abdominal and hip flexor musculature
- An electromyographic analysis of commercial and common abdominal exercises: implications for rehabilitation and training
- The effect of six weeks of squat, plyometric and squat-plyoometric training on power production
- The effect of six weeks of squat, plyometric and squat-plyoometric training on power production
- EMG analysis of lower extremity muscle recruitment patterns during an unloaded squat