Comparison of trunk alignment and postural habits of high school adolescents and university students
Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2022 Introduction: It is widely believed that the postural quality of adolescents is poor and this condition is blamed, at least in part, on a sedentary lifestyle and low self-awareness of body alignment and awareness of movement quality.
Agnieszka Jankowicz-Szymańska +3 more
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The forgotten art of walking. Toward intra-active geography of an urban landscape
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2022 In this paper, we propose to redefine the classical studies of urban trails and wanderings by giving greater consideration to the affective and intra-active aspects of the performance of gait.
Jakub Petri
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Sensors, 2020 In contrast to the physical activities of able-bodied people at home, most people who require long-term specific care (e.g., bedridden patients and patients who have difficulty walking) usually show more low-intensity slow physical activities with ...
Sinan Chen +2 more
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Postural patterns in the first year of life: contributions of maternal physical activity in the pregnancy period [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: The study objective was intended to verify whether the practice of maternal physical activity during the pregnancy period could be assumed as a contribution to the acquisition of postural patterns in the child during its first year of life ...
Batista, Marco +5 more
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Vestibular modulation of spatial perception [PDF]
, 2013 Vestibular inputs make a key contribution to the own sense of spatial location. While the effects of vestibular stimulation on visuo-spatial processing in neurological patients have been extensively described, the normal contribution of vestibular ...
Elisa Raffaella Ferre +4 more
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Assessing plantar sensation in the foot using the FOot Roughness Discrimination Test (FoRDT™): a reliability and validity study in stroke [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: The foot sole represents a sensory dynamometric map and is essential for balance and gait control. Sensory impairments are common, yet often difficult to quantify in neurological conditions, particularly stroke.
Bi J +7 more
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Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, 2012 Objectives: To assess the functional profile of patients with temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJD) receiving physical therapy. Methods: A cross-sectional study carried with 21 patients receiving physiotherapy care during the year of 2007 at the ...
Andrezza Pinheiro Bezerra de Menezes Kinote +4 more
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Physical conditioning programs to prevent falls in older people.
INFAD, 2018 The lack of muscular toning, less MMII mobility, greater joint stiffness and the loss of postural control cause weakness and falls in the elderly which can have serious consequences to maintain autonomy and self-reliance (fractures, anxiety of falling ...
Antonio Jesús Casimiro Andújar +3 more
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Laserlight visual cueing device for freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease: a case study of the biomechanics involved [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Freezing of gait (FOG) is a serious gait disorder affecting up to two-thirds of people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Cueing has been explored as a method of generating motor execution using visual transverse lines on the floor.
B. Evans +7 more
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Long-term behavioural change detection through pervasive sensing [PDF]
, 2013 The paper proposes an information generation and summarisation algorithm to detect behavioural change in applications such as long-term monitoring of vulnerable people.
Brusey, James +3 more
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