Post-practice cardiovascular exercise produces significantly larger motor performance gains than seated rest across six balance-task practice sessions in people with Parkinson's disease, most evident in sessions 4 and 5¶
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q3 i? In a randomized controlled pilot trial (n = 24), participants who cycled after practice showed significantly larger performance gains in sessions 4 and 5 than those who rested, analyzed with a linear mixed model. → Wanner 2025
Evidence¶
Wanner 2025¶
Wanner, P., Frisch, N., Rikus, S., Roig, M. & Steib, S. (2025). Cardiovascular exercise enhances motor learning across multiple sessions in people with Parkinson's disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00391-6
q3 · i? · causal · r2
Pre-registered randomized controlled pilot trial; 24 pwPD randomized to EXE or REST and analyzed with a linear mixed model (mean TIB ~ group x session + MDS-UPDRS III). The LMM "confirmed comparable baseline performance between groups (p = .349)" and showed the CVE benefit. Only a p-value is printed, so no effect size is reported and impact is null.
"More importantly, CVE led to significantly larger performance gains in sessions 4 and 5 compared to rest (p < .05)."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Contrary to predictions, post-practice cardiovascular exercise produced no detectable effect on between-session offline change scores — related
- The EXE group showed descriptively higher within-session online learning rates across sessions 2-6, a moderate but non-significant between-group effect (d = 0.53) — related
- CVE did not differentially affect dual-task costs, subjective task load, or non-learning secondary outcomes (motor symptoms, cognition, fitness, activity, sleep) — related
- The EXE group improved from first to last session more than the REST group (4.1 ± 3.1 sec vs. 2.2 ± 1.7 sec) in the multi-session balance task — related
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Post-practice cardiovascular exercise produces significantly larger motor performance gains than seated rest across six balance-task practice sessions in people with Parkinson's disease, most evident in sessions 4 and 5 |
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Post-practice cardiovascular exercise produces significantly larger motor performance gains than seated rest across six balance-task practice sessions in people with Parkinson's disease, most evident in sessions 4 and 5 |
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2025 |
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