Music College Students’ International Posture [PDF]
, 2021 Developing Japanese youth with a global mindset has become an important agenda of the country. The current study explored Japanese college students’ readiness to international communication and exchanges with a construct, international posture, proposed ...
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Role of physical fitness and functional movement in the body posture of children with overweight/obesity [PDF]
, 2020 BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is known to negatively impact body posture with severe consequences for the musculoskeletal system. Physical performance could play a positive role in the body posture conformation of these children, but there is little ...
Molina-Garcia, P +11 more
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Development of adaptive sensorimotor control in infant sitting posture [PDF]
, 2017 A reliable and adaptive relationship between action and perception is necessary for postural control. Our understanding of how this adaptive sensorimotor control develops during infancy is very limited.
Chen, Li-Chiou;Jeka, John;Clark, Jane E. +1 more
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Cough-Anal Reflex May Be the Expression of a Pre-Programmed Postural Action
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 When coughing, an involuntary contraction of the external anal sphincter occurs, in order to prevent unwanted leakages or sagging of the pelvis muscular wall.
Paolo Cavallari +3 more
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2022 Background Depression is an important nonmotor symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) and has been associated with the motor symptoms in these individuals.
Nathalie Ribeiro Artigas +7 more
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The tongue, mandible, hyoid system
European Journal of Translational Myology, 2017 The craniocervical-mandibular system works in harmony and allows different functional tasks as the postural control of the cervical region. This system is formed by the temporomandibular joint, the masticatory muscles and ligaments connecting the ...
Giuseppe Messina
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Development and evaluation of a facile mesh-to-surface tool for customised wheelchair cushions
3D Printing in Medicine, 2023 Background Custom orthoses are becoming more commonly prescribed for upper and lower limbs. They require some form of shape-capture of the body parts they will be in contact with, which generates an STL file that designers prepare for manufacturing.
Susan Nace +3 more
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CHARACTERISTICS OF BODY POSTURE IN THE SAGITTAL PLANE AND FITNESS OF FIRST-FORM PUPILS FROM RURAL AREAS [PDF]
, 2014 Purpose: to find correlations between characteristics of body posture in the sagittal plane and fitness and endurance of first-form children from rural areas. Material: an analysis of more than 30 sources of scientific and educational literature. Results:
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Optimisation Algorithms for Hand Posture Estimation [PDF]
, 2020 This book reviews the literature on hand posture estimation using generative methods, identifying the current gaps, such as sensitivity to hand shapes, sensitivity to a good initial posture, difficult hand posture recovery in cases of loss in tracking ...
Saremi, Shahrzad, Mirjalili, Seyedali
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Changes in Habitual and Active Sagittal Posture in Children and Adolescents with and without Visual Input – Implications for Diagnostic Analysis of Posture [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Introduction: Poor posture in children and adolescents has a prevalence of 22-65% and is suggested to be responsible for back pain. To assess posture, photometric imaging of sagittal posture is widely used, but usually only habitual posture positions
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