Physiological responses in handcycling. Preliminary study

Physiological and Behavioural Responses in Piglets Submitted to Castration: Preliminary Study

With the perspective to test drugs that may reduce pain due to surgical castration, this preliminary study tries to fi nd out a robust and valid method for pain assessment in piglets. In the present study three treatments were applied: handling (H), tail docking (TD) and surgical castration + tail docking (CTD). To evaluate pain response to the treatments diff erent variables were analyzed: mov...

Handcycling: a biophysical analysis

In-Game Physiological Responses of Young Elite Male and Female Golf Players: A Field-Based Study

Background. Females' golf course lengths have been reduced due to their strength characteristics, leading to shorter shot distances than men. Although the golf game requires different physical conditions for females and males, the physiological demands of both genders are unknown. Objectives. This study aimed to investigate the physiological responses of female and male golfers during 18 holes...

A biomechanical analysis of handcycling: a case study.

The aim of this study was to investigate muscle activity, kinematic, and handgrip-force pattern generation during handcycling. One able-bodied participant performed a 1-min exercise test on a handcycle at 70 revolutions per minute. This article proposes an original data collection and analysis methodology that gathers synchronized kinematics, kinetics, and electromyography. Such data, which mos...

Physiological Responses to Breaks in Presence: A Pilot Study

1. Introduction A participant in an Immersive Virtual Environment (VE) is subject to two streams of sensory data, the first from the real world in which the experience is taking place, and the second from the virtual world displayed by the virtual reality system. A 'break in presence' (BIP) occurs when the participant stops responding to the virtual stream and instead responds to the real senso...