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Effects of wheelchair sports practice on body composition of people with spinal cord injury

Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano
The present study aimed to compare muscle mass and fat mass estimates between people with spinal cord injuries and their peers who participate in wheelchair sports. Thirty-six participants were divided into four groups: untrained paraplegics (UnP, N=7),
Saulo Fernandes Melo Oliveira, José Igor Vasconcelos Oliveira, Lúcia Inês Guedes Leite Oliveira, Manoel Cunha Costa   +3 more
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Chronobiology of Cancer: How Aging Fuels Oncogenesis at the Molecular Level

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
This graphical abstract illustrates the key biological pathways linking aging with cancer development and progression. In the upper left, cumulative exposure to ultraviolet radiation, toxins, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) causes DNA damage and genomic instability, whereas age‐related decline in repair mechanisms, such as ATM/ATR, BER, and NER ...
Anu Singh, Aroonima Misra, Sufian Zaheer
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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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Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) in a Patient With Compound Heterozygous OPA1 Variants: Case Report and Literature Review

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Super‐Refractory Status Epilepticus (SRSE) is a rare, life‐threatening neurological emergency with unclear etiology in many cases. Mitochondrial dysfunction, often due to disease‐causing genetic variants, is increasingly recognized as a cause, with each gene producing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms.
Pouria Mohammadi, Lara Basovic, Christopher Michael McGraw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Five‐Year Disease Progression in Synuclein Seeding Positive Sporadic Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To provide a comprehensive description of disease progression in synuclein seeding assay (SAA) positive sporadic Parkinson Disease participants, using Neuronal Synuclein Disease integrated biological and functional impairment staging framework.
Paulina Gonzalez‐Latapi, Caroline Gochanour, Seung Ho Choi, Hyunkeun Cho, Chelsea Caspell‐Garcia, Christopher Coffey, Michael Brumm, David‐Erick Lafontant, Yuge Xiao, Thomas Tropea, John Seibyl, Caroline Tanner, Charles S. Venuto, Karl Kieburtz, Lana M. Chahine, Kathleen L. Poston, Andrew Siderowf, Kenneth Marek, Tanya Simuni, The Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structure–Function Decoupling of the Sensorimotor and Default Mode Networks in Black Americans With MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibits racially disparate rates of disease progression. Black people with MS (B‐PwMS) experience a more severe disease course than non‐Hispanic White people with MS (NHW‐PwMS). Here we investigated structural and functional connectivity as well as structure–function decoupling in the ...
Emilio Cipriano, Giacomo Boffa, Maria Petracca, Marta Ponzano, Nicole Graziano, Claire Wigley, Claire Riley, Jonathan Howard, Pietro Bontempi, Sylvia Klineova, Fred Lublin, Matilde Inglese   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adapted physical activity as an occupation, study program and academic discipline

Tělesná Kultura, 2011
Adapted Physical Activity (APA) is the area focused on providing services to persons with special needs (e. g. disabilities) and the academic discipline, which supports acceptance of individual differences and promotes provision of services and ...
Martin Kudláček
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Validity of a Wearable Digital Insole for Assessing Gait ON and OFF in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Gait impairment is a distinctive symptom of Parkinson's disease that negatively impact mobility. We assessed the validity of wearable digital insoles against a validated reference gait analysis system for measuring select gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods A comparative analysis between digital insoles
Deborah A. Hall, Kimberly Kwei, Rolando J. Acosta, Bharatkumar Koyani, Erin Robertson, Pratyush Rai, Roland Barge, Emily Timm, Nicollette L. Purcell, Natasha Desai, Dhanesh Patel, Ana‐Maria Visoiu‐Knapp, Samuel Stuart, Rinol Alaj, Matthew F. Wipperman, Oren Levy, Joan A. O'Keefe   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sports Act vis-a-vis integration of athletes with disabilities

Acta Iuris Stetinensis
In the past, sports activity mainly served as a means of rehabilitation for persons with disabilities (PWDs), leading to sports’ organizational structures to be limited primarily to athletes with disabilities (AWDs).
Jakub Zwierzchowski, Joanna Sobiecka
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