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Effects of neuromuscular training on postural control of children with intellectual disability and developmental coordination disorders

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022
Background Children with Intellectual disabilities who suffer from developmental coordination disorder represent insignificant physical fitness, strength, and balance.
Esmail Balayi, Parisa Sedaghati, Somayeh Ahmadabadi   +2 more
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The preventive and therapeutic role of physical activity in knee osteoarthritis

Reumatismo, 2022
The aim of this narrative review is to discuss the results of studies investigating the role of physical activity in knee osteoarthritis (OA). We also formulated two evidence-based exercise programs that could be prescribed to patients with symptomatic ...
R. Restuccia, D. Ruggieri, L. Magaudda, R. Talotta   +3 more
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Effects of COVID-19 related physical inactivity on motor skills in children with intellectual disability

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Children with intellectual disabilities (ID) may show declines in motor skills during the Covid-19 restrictions. This study compared the effects of physical inactivity due to COVID-19 on the motor skills of active and inactive children with ID.
Parisa Sedaghati, Esmail Balayi, Somayeh Ahmadabadi   +2 more
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Influence of hard, artificial grass and clay court surfaces on wheelchair tennis players' mobility-a case study

European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity, 2021
Wheelchair mobility is an important factor for success in wheelchair tennis. Tennis matches can be played on different surfaces, so the aim of the present study was to analyse the influence of court surface on wheelchair tennis mobility.
Alejandro Sánchez-Pay, David Sanz-Rivas
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Revenue divergence and competitive balance in a divisional sports league [PDF]

, 2004
The North American model of resource allocation in professional sports leagues is adapted for English (association) football. The theoretical relationship between revenue and competitive balance is shown to be robust with respect to changes in teams ...
Dobson S. M., Dunning E., Football Trust, Fort R., Hoehn T., Humphreys B., Kesenne S., Quirk J., Russell D., Scully G., Sloane P., Szymanski S., Vrooman J., Walvin J., Weiss A. A.   +14 more
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Is There a New Road to Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation? A Case Report about the Effects of Driving a Go-Kart on Muscle Spasticity

Diseases, 2023
Background: Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a neurological disorder that causes a traumatic anatomical discontinuity of the spinal cord. SCI can lead to paraplegia, spastic, or motor impairments.
Giacomo Farì, Maurizio Ranieri, Riccardo Marvulli, Laura Dell’Anna, Annatonia Fai, Lucrezia Tognolo, Andrea Bernetti, Laura Caforio, Marisa Megna, Ernesto Losavio   +9 more
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A Scoping Review on Shoulder Injuries of Wheelchair Tennis Players: Potential Risk-Factors and Musculoskeletal Adaptations

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2022
Wheelchair tennis players are prone to develop shoulder injuries, due to the combination of wheelchair propulsion, overhead activities and daily wheelchair activities.
Laura Mayrhuber, Laura Mayrhuber, Thomas Rietveld, Wiebe de Vries, Lucas H. V. van der Woude, Lucas H. V. van der Woude, Lucas H. V. van der Woude, Sonja de Groot, Sonja de Groot, Riemer J. K. Vegter, Riemer J. K. Vegter   +10 more
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Interpreting and Implementing the Long Term Athlete Development Model: English Swimming Coaches’ Views on the (Swimming) LTAD in Practice [PDF]

, 2010
The LTAD (Long Term Athlete Development) model has come to represent a sports-wide set of principles that significantly influences national sports policy in England.
Lang, M, Light, R
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Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Healthy Lifestyle Questionnaire [PDF]

, 2020
The main objective of this study was the validation of the Healthy Lifestyle Questionnaire (EVS II), using a confirmatory factorial analysis of the measurement model, with veteran athletes. A total of 348 veteran Portuguese athletes of both genders, aged
Batista, Marco, Honório, Samuel, Jiménez Castuera, Ruth, Leyton, Marta, Santos, Jorge   +4 more
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Comparison of the personality traits of male and female BASE jumpers [PDF]

, 2018
BASE jumping is an extreme adventure sport which consists of jumping from a fixed object with specially adapted parachutes. A few studies of the personality of BASE jumpers have been conducted, but little is known about how the women in this sport ...
Cloninger, Robert, Hackney, Anthony C, Mei-Dan, Omer, Monasterio, Erik   +3 more
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