Download or read book The Metabolic Cost of the Vibrating Table and a Program of Free Exercise on Middle aged Women written by James Stanford Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journal of Physical Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Completed Research in Health Physical Education and Recreation written by American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Research Council and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Completed Research in Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Physical Education Fitness and Sports written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliography of Research Involving Female Subjects written by National Association for Girls & Women in Sport. Research Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whole Body Vibration written by Becky Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of whole body vibration, and how to best use it to improve health.
Download or read book Whole Body Vibration Therapy for Osteoporosis written by U. S. Department of Health and Human Services and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osteoporosis is a skeletal system disease characterized by low bone density and deterioration of bone tissue. The clinical ranges for osteoporosis, osteopenia, and normal bone density are presented. Osteoporosis affects 2 percent of men and 10 percent of women over the age of 50 in the United States. In addition, 49 percent of older women and 30 percent of older men in the United States have low bone density or osteopenia. Osteoporosis is a significant public health problem that leads to increased bone fragility and greater fracture risk, especially of the wrist, hip, and spine. In an epidemiological study conducted in Switzerland, 50 percent of all fractures in women and 24 percent in men were considered osteoporotic. In the United States an estimated 1.5 million yearly osteoporotic fractures result in more than 500,000 hospitalizations, 800,000 emergency room visits, 2.6 million physician office visits, and 180,000 nursing home placements. Hip fractures, in particular, are associated with an increased risk of death. Fractures can also cause pain, height loss, and functional disability, as well as complications such as pressure sores and pneumonia. By 2020, approximately half of all older Americans will be at risk for fractures from osteoporosis or osteopenia. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends active screening for osteoporosis and early intervention to prevent bone fractures. Current clinical guidelines recommend dietary and pharmacological interventions to treat osteoporosis and prevent bone fractures. An increase of 1 standard deviation in bone mineral density in women would prevent 33 percent of hip fractures and 77 percent of vertebral fractures. Despite proven effectiveness, these treatments may have low rates of long-term adherence. Pharmacological interventions can result in adverse outcomes, commonly minimal trauma atypical fractures, esophageal irritation, renal toxicity, and osteonecrosis of the jaw. Additionally, requirements of pharmacological interventions may be burdensome for patients. How vibration therapy increases bone density is not well understood. One hypothesis suggests that vibration signals transmit and amplify into bone tissue, directly activating mechanosensors in bone cells. Animal studies have demonstrated that vibration increases the anabolic (bone building) activity of bone tissue and increases bone density. Another hypothesis suggests that whole-body vibration, like other weight-bearing exercise, improves muscle strength and power by increasing neuromuscular activation. Human studies on healthy volunteers examined adaptive muscle strength and performance after vibration therapy and found its effects to be similar to those of short-term resistance exercise. Several studies have shown whole-body vibration therapy to improve muscle and bone circulation, increasing the supply of nutrients needed to build bones. This technical brief describes the state of the science and summarizes the key issues related to the use of whole-body vibration therapy to improve bone density for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, including modalities, standards, relevant patient populations, outcomes measured, and implications for future research. This report's scope is confined to whole-body vibration platforms designed and marketed for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis; our review excludes exercise equipment with vibrating platforms intended for use in physical fitness or athletic regimens.
Download or read book Therapeutic Exercise written by William D. Bandy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entirely new resource focuses on the implementation of treatment plans and intervention using the newest appropriate therapeutic exercise techniques. It provides descriptions and rationale for use of a wide range of exercises to improve a patient's function and health status and to prevent potential future problems. The description of the purpose, position and procedure is given for each technique, providing a complete understanding of the exercise. Features include Pediatric and Geriatric Boxes, Case Studies, and Clinical Guidelines. Fourteen contributors in the fields of exercise science and physical therapy make the text a comprehensive, well-rounded overview of therapeutic exercise techniques.
Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity written by Thomas Reilly and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity: Enhancing Performance and Improving Safety is also available as an e-book. The e-book is available at a reduced price and allows readers to highlight and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the Human Kinetics site, access to the e-book is immediately granted when the order is received.Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity: Enhancing Performance and Improving Safety is the first text to provide an in-depth discussion of how the principles of ergonomics can be applied in the context of sport and other physical activities to reduce injury and improve performance. The textblends concepts from biomechanics, physiology, and psychology as it shows how ergonomics is applied to physical activity. This comprehensive text outlines methods for assessing risk in and procedures for dealing with stress, eliminating hazards, and evaluating challenges posed in specific work or sport environments. It discusses issues such as the design of effective equipment, clothing, and playing surfaces; methods of assessing risk in situations; and staying within appropriate training levels to reduce fatigue and avoid overtraining. The text not only examines sport ergonomics but also discusses ergonomic considerations for physically active special populations. Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity explains what ergonomics is, how ergonomists solve practical problems in the workplace, and how principles of ergonomics are applied in the context of sport and other physical activities when solving practical problems related to human characteristics and capabilities. The text shows readers how to improve performance, achieve optimal efficiency, enhance comfort, and reduce injuries by exploring topics such as these: Essential concepts, terms, and principles of ergonomics and how these relate to physical activity Physical properties of the body and the factors limiting performance Interactions between the individual, the task, and the environment Injury risk factors in relation to body mechanics in various physical activities Injury prevention and individual protection in the review of sports equipment and sports environments Comfort, efficiency, safety, and details of systems criteria in equipment design This research-based text uses numerous practical examples, figures, charts, and graphs to bring the material to life. In addition, descriptions of technological advances show where we have been and how technology has advanced the field. Through the book’s discussion of the various stressors and adaptive mechanisms, readers will learn how to cope with various environmental conditions. They will also learn how various training modes can be used to alter sport-specific capabilities and enhance performance. Presenting a wide range of approaches, theoretical models, and analytical techniques, Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity: Enhancing Performance and Improving Safety illustrates the potential for ergonomics to be extended across recreation, competitive sport, and physically active work environments. Bridging the gap between ergonomics and exercise science, this unique text will assist both health care and exercise professionals in developing an improved awareness of how human capabilities are best matched to physical activities.
Download or read book The 2030 Spike written by Colin Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
Download or read book NP Notes written by ruth McCaffrey and published by F.A. Davis. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put this handy guide to work in class, in clinical, and in practice. From screening and assessment tools and differential diagnosis through the most commonly ordered drugs and billing and coding, this volume in the Davis Notes Series presents the information you need every day in a pocket-sized resource.
Download or read book Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science The Paralympic Athlete written by Yves Vanlandewijck and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brand new Handbook addresses Paralympic sports and athletes, providing practical information on the medical issues, biological factors in the performance of the sports and physical conditioning. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction of the Paralympic athlete, followed by discipline-specific reviews from leading authorities in disability sport science, each covering the biomechanics, physiology, medicine, philosophy, sociology and psychology of the discipline. The Paralympic Athlete also addresses recent assessment and training tools to enhance the performance of athletes, particularly useful for trainers and coaches, and examples of best practice on athletes' scientific counseling are also presented. This new title sits in a series of specialist reference volumes, ideal for the use of professionals working directly with competitive athletes.
Download or read book The Lives of a Cell written by Lewis Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1978-02-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."
Download or read book Manual of Vibration Exercise and Vibration Therapy written by Jörn Rittweger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the practical aspects of vibration exercise and vibration therapy. In addition, it describes the technical and physiological background, providing applied scientists and doctors with a deeper understanding of the therapeutic potential that vibration exercise holds. Having first emerged two decades ago, vibration exercise has since established itself as a widespread form of physical exercise, used in all rehabilitation areas. The goal of this book is to close the gap between scientific knowledge and practice. Given that occupational exposure to vibration leads to well-known unfavorable effects, the book is also dedicated to potential risks, hazards and contra-indications and of course, the application of vibration therapy in a number of specific conditions is presented in a clinically usable fashion. Given its breadth of coverage, this book will be of interest to physiotherapists and exercise scientists, but also to a wider range of physicians working in the field of rehabilitation.
