Effect of Exercise on Soldiers With Effort Intolerance

Blood Lactate Response During Moderate Exercise in Neurocirculatory Asthenia, Anxiety Neurosis, or Effort Syndrome 1

“…patients reach the stopping point earlier than do controls; but, for the same amnount and duration of effort, blood lactate concentration is higher in N.C.A. This demonstrates that, if the patients' difficulty is, as was stated (10), simply a matter of lack of "persistence," this lack of persistence is usually associated with a chemical abnormality-that is, increased blood lactate concentration.…”

“…In discussing their lactic studies, Jones and Scarisbrick (10) (11), "The patients' bodily response to exercise does not differ in any discoverable respect from that of other subjects of their own age. .…”