MUSCLE CONDITIONING BED-REST-EXERCISE EFFECTS ON ACTIVITY RESTRICTED HOSPITALIZED PREGNANT WOMEN
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Abstract
According to research evidence, bed-rested pregnant women may suffer from several physiological side effects, such as musculoskeletal and cardiovascular deconditioning. While the deleterious side effects of bed-rest may be alleviated or even prevented by incorporating a bed-rest-exercise program to non-pregnant individuals, these benefits have yet to be fully investigated in the high-risk pregnant population. PURPOSE To determine how hospitalized high-risk pregnant women respond to and/or tolerate a bed-rest exercise session of muscle conditioning activity. METHODS Nine antenatal women hospitalized due to high-risk pregnancies, in third trimester, were randomly assigned to either an exercise (E) or music (M) group. During the controlled 30 minutes protocol, the (M) group listened to easy listening music, while the (E) group performed a bed-rest-exercise routine while listening to the same music. The (E) protocol provided 20 minutes of muscle conditioning activities (using a dynaband) with 5 minutes warm-up and 5 minutes cool down for major muscles of the upper and lower body. RESULTS Heart rate was significantly increased (91 ± 14 vs. 102 ± 17 bpm, p < 0.05) from baseline into immediate recovery from exercise for the (E) group, however, no changes were found between groups for baseline vs. 20 minutes recovery for heart rate, blood pressure, capillary glucose and frequency of uterine contractions. Continuous heart rate measures were also obtained. The average heart rate during exercise ranged from 120–134 bpm. Women in the (E) group reported feeling less physical exhaustion and more revitalized after the exercise session than the (M) group. CONCLUSION The acute exercise protocol was well tolerated by this population. Considering the importance of exercise in eliciting physiological responses, the effects of chronic bed-rest-exercise needs further investigation. Supported by Child Health Research Institute, London Canada.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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