Walking on a treadmill three times a week helped stroke survivors improve their mobility and physical conditioning but also led to a "rewiring" of the brain reflecting these gains, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Some of the treadmill walkers achieved major improvement despite coming into the study needing a wheelchair or walker to get around, and brain scans revealed positive brain changes following six months of such exercise, the researchers said. . . .
Reuters - August 28, 2008
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