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Corticospinal Excitability Is Modulated as a Function of Postural Perturbation Predictability

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018
Recent studies demonstrated that the corticospinal pathway is one of the key nodes for the feedback control of human standing and that the excitability is flexibly changed according to the current state of posture.
Kimiya Fujio, Kimiya Fujio, Hiroki Obata, Taku Kitamura, Noritaka Kawashima, Kimitaka Nakazawa   +5 more
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Locomotor adaptation: Significance and underlying neural mechanisms

Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2015
Human locomotion is flexible in meeting the requirements of given environmental or task demands. Hence, in everyday life, we can walk, run, and skip in environmental surroundings that vary from hour to hour and even from second to second.
Tetsuya Ogawa, Noritaka Kawashima, Kimitaka Nakazawa   +2 more
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Oscar Pistorius and the Future Nature of Olympic, Paralympic, and Other Sports [PDF]

, 2008
Oscar Pistorius is a Paralympic bionic leg runner and record holder in the 100, 200, and 400 meters who wants to compete in the Olympics. This paper provides an analysis of a) his case; b) the impact of his case on the Olympics, the Paralympics and other
Gregor Wolbring
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Presetting of the Corticospinal Excitability in the Tibialis Anterior Muscle in Relation to Prediction of the Magnitude and Direction of Postural Perturbations

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
The prediction of upcoming perturbation modulates postural responses in the ankle muscles. The effects of this prediction on postural responses vary according to predictable factors.
Kimiya Fujio, Kimiya Fujio, Hiroki Obata, Noritaka Kawashima, Kimitaka Nakazawa   +4 more
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Actigraphy-Based Sleep Parameters in Wheelchair Basketball Athletes: Influence of Training and Competition Load

Sleep Science, 2023
Objective This study aimed to analyze the actigraphy-based sleep parameters in wheelchair basketball (WB) athletes during the 3 weeks leading up to the playoffs, the week of playoffs, and the week after playoffs.
Marcos López-Flores, David Suárez-Iglesias, José Antonio Rodríguez-Marroyo   +2 more
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Alarming low physical activity levels in Chilean adults with disabilities during COVID-19 pandemic: a representative national survey analysis

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundPeople with disabilities usually face barriers to regularly engaging in physical activities. Estimating physical activity patterns are necessary to elaborate policies and strategies to facilitate active lifestyles, considering the particular ...
Matías Henríquez, Rodrigo Ramirez-Campillo, Carlos Cristi-Montero, Raul Reina, Cristián Alvarez, Gerson Ferrari, Nicolas Aguilar-Farias, Kabir P. Sadarangani, Kabir P. Sadarangani   +8 more
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The effectiveness of a weight maintenance intervention for adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity: a single stranded study [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The evidence base for weight management programmes incorporating a weight loss and a weight maintenance phase for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) is limited.
Hankey, Catherine, Melville, Craig, Spanos, Dimitrios   +2 more
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Examination of parental and special education teachers' attitudes towards sports activities of students with intellectual disability [PDF]

, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of parents of students with intellectual disability and special education teachers working in special education schools to the sports activities of students with intellectual disability (ID).The ...
Aslan, Şehmus
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Is the level of eye-hand coordination and executive functioning related to performance in para table tennis players? – An explorative study

International Journal of Racket Sports Science, 2019
The goal of this explorative study was to explore whether eye-hand coordination and executive functions (i.e. cognitive flexibility, attention control and information processing) are related to the performance level in para table tennis players.
Irene R. Faber, Johan Pion, Bas Willemse, Willianne Schipper, Maria Nijhuis-Van der Sanden   +4 more
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Do paralympic track and field athletes have low energy availability?

Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 2018
One of the greatest challenges when working with athletes is to achieve the energy demands for physiological processes and exercise expenditure. The aim of this study was to assess the energy availability (EA) of Paralympic track and field athletes ...
Daniel Paduan Joaquim, Claudia Ridel Juzwiak, Ciro Winckler   +2 more
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