Exercise for Health and Disease

It is well known that physical activity and exercise belong to the best medications to prevent disease, reverse disease and to improve health status and functionality in people suffering from disease, including respiratory, cardiovascular, neuromuscular or metabolic diseases.

We perform studies to understand the mechanisms by which limitations of these systems impair performance and well-being most, and by which training modality these systems can best be improved.

Our investigations include patients with asthma and chronic obstuctive pulmonary disease, heart disease, neuromuscular disease as well as overweight and obese subjects. Understanding their specific limits will then allow to specifically tailor personalised training regimens.

In the context of training studies, assessment of important factors such as physical activity during daily living outside of the laboratory as well as sleep duration and quality has always been a challenge. However, these factors significantly contribute to the outcome.

Today’s technical opportunities  might offer an easy to apply alternative to expensive equipment. However, thorough testing of, for example, today’s fitness trackers’ validity and further developments are certainly needed. For this reason we also conduct studies in this area of research.