Starting aerobic exercise just two months after a stroke is safe and may help protect thinking skills, according to new research. The study provides fresh hope for stroke survivors that they can ...

If you encourage patients coming back from stroke to exercise, you're doing the right thing. Regular physical activity can help improve recovery and reduce the risk for another stroke. But emerging ...

Exercise significantly improves clinical measures of cognitive function in adults who have experienced a stroke, a new study finds. Stroke survivors not only have twice the risk for dementia, but ...

The incidence of ischemic stroke continues to rise globally, however, regular physical activity before stroke onset significantly lowers its occurrence. Here, we evaluated whether low-intensity ...

Cardiorespiratory exercise after ischemic stroke had benefits on cognition but not brain volume in a randomized controlled study conducted in Australia. In the PISCES-ZODIAC trial, an 8-week ...

What triggers a stroke? The answer has been elusive, but a new study offers clues about what many survivors experienced soon before their stroke happened. Anger or emotional upset was common in the ...

High-intensity walking exercise helped chronic stroke patients regain walking capacity compared with more moderate training, a pilot randomized trial showed. Some secondary measures of gait speed and ...

HELSINKI, Finland—The more recreational activity postmenopausal women can do at any level, the lower their likelihood of stroke, data from the Women’s Health Initiative indicate. Each standard ...

Exercise is generally recommended as one of the top forms of prevention for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. and globally. Apart from helping to maintain a healthy weight, ...