Clinicians and practitioners have used passive exercise to improve mobility; however, research designed to systematically explore its effects is not well developed. This editorial will highlight evidence from studies of acute bouts of passive exercise that could be leveraged to understand whether regular passive exercise could maintain and improve brain health. Regular active exercise (ie, volitional aerobic/resistance exercise) has numerous health benefits, including, but not limited to, improved functional abilities (eg, mobility), reduced risk of developing diseases, improved brain health and cognition, and facilitated recovery following a medical event (eg, acute injury).1 For example, active exercise can improve clinical recovery in individuals with a recent traumatic brain injury and reduce the risk of persistent post-concussive symptoms.2 For individuals who are unable to actively exercise (eg, unconscious, paralysed or sedated patients, stroke or spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s disease), passive exercise is usually prescribed in settings such as in hospitals, rehabilitation clinics or care homes.3 Passive exercise is completed independently of an individual’s volitional effort and relies entirely on an external force to move an individual’s limbs. In this framework, passive exercise involves movement through a specified range of motion, often via therapist-assisted movement and/or via a mechanically driven flywheel or stationary tandem bicycle. In this context, the overarching goal of passive exercise is to maintain or improve mobility and prevent further musculoskeletal complications. However, the specific promotion of brain health via passive exercise prescription is often overlooked. Promising early research from Ridgel …

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利用被动运动来支持大脑健康


临床医生和从业者使用被动运动来改善活动能力;然而，旨在系统地探索其影响的研究尚未得到充分发展。这篇社论将重点介绍来自被动运动急性发作的研究证据，这些证据可用于了解定期被动运动是否可以维持和改善大脑健康。定期积极锻炼（即自愿有氧/阻力运动）对健康有很多好处，包括但不限于提高功能能力（例如，活动能力）、降低患疾病的风险、改善大脑健康和认知能力，以及促进医疗事件（例如，急性损伤）后的恢复。例如，积极锻炼可以改善近期创伤性脑损伤个体的临床恢复，并降低持续性脑震荡后症状的风险。无法积极锻炼的个体（例如，失去知觉、瘫痪或镇静的患者、中风或脊髓损伤、帕金森病），被动锻炼通常在医院、康复诊所或疗养院等环境中进行。被动锻炼是独立于个人的意志努力完成的，完全依靠外力来移动个人的四肢。在这个框架中，被动锻炼涉及通过指定的运动范围进行运动，通常是通过治疗师的辅助运动和/或通过机械驱动的飞轮或固定双人自行车。在这种情况下，被动锻炼的首要目标是维持或改善活动能力并防止进一步的肌肉骨骼并发症。然而，通过被动运动处方对大脑健康的具体促进往往被忽视。Ridgel 有前途的早期研究......