1Graduate Student, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
2Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
3Professor, Department of Health and Exercise Sciences, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
4Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
5Research Associate, Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
6Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
7Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
8Health Clinician Scientist, Department of Respiratory Therapy and Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
9Assistant Professor (status only), Rehabilitation Sciences Institute and Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Correspondence: Mika L. Nonoyama, PhD, RRT, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, 2000 Simcoe St N, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada ([email protected]).
Grant Support: Funding supplied by Mika Nonoyama's Ontario Tech University's personal research start-up funds.The authors declare they have no competing interests. However Nordic walking poles were provided by Nordixx International, and Jennifer Howey (who is a distributor of Nordixx poles) provided training for the NPW instructors.Trial Registration:ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03942614, Registered May 8, 2019—retrospectively registered, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03942614.
