Physical activity, including endurance and resistance exercises, has neuroprotective properties and promotes motor function, particularly in patients with neurological disorders.
Does physical activity improve brain and motor function in patients with neurological disorders?
Physical activity, particularly high-intensity aerobic exercise, has neuroprotective properties and promotes the restoration of motor function in neurological disorders.
Exercise represents a behavioral intervention that enhances brain health and motor function. The increase in cerebral blood volume in response to physical activity may be responsible for improving brain function. Among the various neuroimaging techniques used to monitor brain hemodynamic response during exercise, functional near-infrared spectroscopy could facilitate the measurement of task-related cortical responses noninvasively and is relatively robust with regard to the subjects' motion. Although the components of optimal exercise interventions have not been determined, evidence from animal and human studies suggests that aerobic exercise with sufficiently high intensity has neuroprotective properties and promotes motor function. This review provides an insight into the effect of physical activity (based on endurance and resistance exercises) on brain function for producing movement. Since most progress in the study of brain function has come from patients with neurological disorders (e.g., stroke and Parkinson's patients), this review presents some findings emphasizing training paradigms for restoring motor function.
Stéphane Perrey (2013) conducted a review in Neurological disorders (e.g., stroke and Parkinson's disease). Physical activity (endurance and resistance exercises) was evaluated on Brain function and motor function. Physical activity, including endurance and resistance exercises, has neuroprotective properties and promotes motor function, particularly in patients with neurological disorders.