Interventions
The intervention period lasted from admission (TMAT consisted of three components: (I) standing balance exercises, (II) dynamic balance exercises including functional leg strength, and (III) agility-like exercises. Agility-like exercises have been defined as ‘[…] tasks, that require changes of direction, stop-and-go patterns, turns, and changing footwork strategies, with or without responding to a stimulus’ [In SET, endurance training was performed with 3 min of gradual increase, 17 min steady and 2 min cool-down on a cycle ergometer (ergoselect 5, ergoline GmbH, Bitz, Germany) with continuous monitoring of power output (W) and heart rate (ers.2 software, ergoline GmbH, Bitz, Germany). The first session started with a power output participants had rated ‘light’ (= 11) to ‘somewhat hard’ (= 13) (6–20 Rating of Perceived Exertion [RPE] – scale) during the baseline graded exercise test (GXT, see Sect. Strength training was adapted from published protocols [