Exploring adaptations to the modified shuttle walking test.

ABSTRACT: The 10 m modified shuttle walking test (MSWT) is recommended to determine the functional capacity in older individuals and for patients entering cardiac rehabilitation. Participants are required to negotiate around cones set 1 m from the end markers. However, consistent comments indicate that for some individuals manoeuvring around the cones can be quite difficult. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore differences within and between non-cardiac and postmyocardial infarction (MI) males during MSWT with and without the cones. Comparative study. 20 post-MI (64.8±6.6, range 51-74 years) and 20 non-cardiac male controls (64.1±5.7, range 52-74 years) participated. Participants performed MSWT with and without cones. Throughout, the participants expired air, and the heart rate (bpm

SUBMITTER: Woolf-May K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3664357 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature