Korean J Rehabil Nurs.  2007 Dec;10(2):116-124.

An Analysis on the Research Papers about Exercise Interventions to the Stroke Survivors

• Kim JH
• Lim NY
• So HY
• Kang KS
• Min HS
• Park GH
• Park SY
• Cho BH
• Han HS
• Kim SY

Abstract

PURPOSE: This study was to suggest the direction to the exercise intervention development for the stroke survivors. METHOD: 12 domestic and 54 foreign research papers about the exercise intervention for the stroke patients published during 1998~2007 were analyzed. RESULT: Among the papers, quasi-experimental design(75.8%) and multidisciplinary approach(60.6%) were the most frequent ones. The mean age of the respondents was 63.3 and the intervention was supplied for 7.14 weeks. The frequency of exercise was 3.87 per week and the exercise time was 1.88 hours. And physical research variables - such as ambulation, muscle strength, activities of daily living and balance - were more than psychosocial variables. This study suggested that the exercise intervention for the stroke survivors need to include aerobic exercise, muscle strengthening exercise, flexible exercise, body coordination, balance exercise. In addition we confirmed that the exercise intervention was revealed as an effective physiological parameters; such as maximum oxygen uptake quantity, blood pressure.
CONCLUSION
We suggest that the further researchs are needed which include the intensity of exercise into the quantity of the exercise. Also researchers need to extend the motion intervention time for an effective sociopsychological variable and to try the meta analysis for the effective exercise intervention for the stroke survivors.

Keyword

Stroke; Exercise

MeSH Terms

Activities of Daily Living
Blood Pressure
Surveys and Questionnaires
Exercise
Humans
Muscle Strength
Oxygen
Stroke*
Survivors*
Walking
Oxygen