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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The aim of this study was to investigate muscle activation and perceived loading during upper-extremity resistance exercises with dumbbells compared with elastic tubing. Sixteen female workers (aged 26-55 years) without serious musculoskeletal diseases and with a mean neck and shoulder pain intensity of 7.8 on a 100-mm visual analog scale participated in the study. Measurements Electromyographic (EMG) activity was measured in 5 selected muscles…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A "shocking" number of children are being rushed to hospital each year with potentially fatal complications of diabetes, according to a charity. Many of the 3,300 cases in England in 2008/9 could have been prevented by better care, says Diabetes UK. It said that families still found it hard to access specialist diabetes teams and that high admission rates had been linked to service cuts. …
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The present study examined the cardiac effects of football training and running for inactive pre-menopausal women by standard echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging. Thirty-seven subjects were randomized to two training groups training 1 h with equal average heart rates twice a week for 16 weeks and compared with a matched inactive control group. During the training period, left ventricular end-diastolic volume increased by 13% in FG and 11% in RG…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The present study examined the effect of football training on the health profile of habitually active 25-45-year-old men with mild hypertension and compared it with running training and no additional activity. The participants in F and R completed a 1-h training session 2.4 times/week for 12 weeks. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure decreased in all groups but the decrease in diastolic blood pressure in F was higher than that in…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This lecture is based on David Butler and Lorimer Moseley’s book ‘Explain Pain’. The presenters will help you understand how the pain system works when there are injured tissues and nerves and what happens in the brain in relation to pain experiences. You will also hear about the impact of stress in relation to pain. The lecture is delivered in a way in which any professional working with patients or…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Following the recent earthquake in Haiti, WCPT has published calls for volunteers on its website at
www.wcpt.org/node/32997.
A selection of systematic reviews and their conclusions that aid agencies and others have reported as important at this time is available from The Cochrane Library on healthcare topics. These are signposts to systematic reviews that might be helpful to decision-making.
www.cochrane.org/evidenceaid/haiti/index.html
All countries in Latin America and the Caribbean can access the Cochrane Library…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
CBM has been working in Haiti for about 30 years and supports five national partners in various locations. The partners in Port-au-Prince have all been affected and are currently trying to plan their recovery. To prevent disability following serious injuries and to maximise the recovery capacity of persons with new disabilities through the provision of physical rehabilitation at hospitals and later community level, CBM’s International Office in Bensheim is accepting…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on February 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Physical activity is a fundamental means of improving people's physical and mental health. It reduces the risks of many noncommunicable diseases and benefits society by increasing social interaction and community engagement. The European network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity (
HEPA Europe) is a collaborative project which works for better health through physical activity among all people in the WHO European Region, by strengthening and supporting efforts to…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Previous data suggest that group obesity treatment results in greater weight loss than individual treatment. Whether exercise with calorie restriction results in significantly greater weight loss as compared with calorie restriction alone remains unclear. We evaluated the impact of self-selected group intervention, with and without exercise, on body mass index (BMI) and cardiovascular risk factors. 86 Obese adults underwent laboratory studies, were prescribed a low-calorie diet and moderate intensity exercise…
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Posted by Rachael Lowe on December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Heart rate recovery (HRR) as a function of vagal reactivation, which is an independent risk predictor for cardiovascular disease and mortality, is strongly associated with metabolic syndrome. Middle-aged obese men classified on the basis of Adult Treatment Panel III criteria were investigated in this study. Postexercise HRR and the HRR decay constant following a symptom-limited bicycle exercise test were evaluated before and after a 12-week exercise training program. Although the…
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