Review of the role of exercise in improving quality of life in healthy individuals and in those with chronic diseases

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 211-216

  Mitchell, Tedd ^a,b   Barlow, Carolyn E ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Cooper Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82955186975     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e318223cc9e     Document Type: Article

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