Responses of children with cerebral palsy to treadmill walking exercise in the heat

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1674-1681

  Maltais, Désirée ^a,c   Wilk, Boguslaw ^a   Unnithan, Viswanath ^b   Bar Or, Oded ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Heart rate; Heat production; Oxygen uptake; Rectal temperature; Skin temperature

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART RATE; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SPASTICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; SWEATING; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMOGENESIS; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 4944254795     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000142312.43629.D8     Document Type: Article

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