Background: Muscle fatigue is characterized by decreased muscle performance, accompanied increased perceived exertion to produce a desired amount of force. The duration the effects not completely clear regarding postural sway and force production in athletes. Methods: Twenty female basketball athletes participated this study. Specific action composed protocol circuit format with gradual increme...

Violence, according to one dictionary, is defined as "(1) exertion of any physical force so as to injure or abuse, (2) injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation, (3) intense, turbulent and often destructive action, or force." In his book Powershift Alvin Toffler identifies violence or the threat of violence as one of the three fundamental sources of all human power, the oth...

A mismatch between the training exertion intended by a coach and the exertion perceived by players is well established in sports. However, it is unknown whether coaches can accurately observe exertion of individual players during training. Furthermore, the discrepancy in coaches' and players' perceptions has not been explained. PURPOSE To determine the relation between intended and observed t...

The potential use of serious games in educational settings is huge, because a large and growing population is familiar and engaged with playing games. However, the popularity of games has aroused also problems. For example, obesity has recently become a big problem in many countries. The development of motion-based controllers and the concern over the high levels of obesity has facilitated the ...

Incorporating physical activity and exertion into pervasive gaming applications can provide health and social benefits. Prior research has resulted in several prototypes of pervasive games that encourage exertion as interaction form; however, no detailed critical account of the various approaches exists. We focus on networked exertion games and detail some of our work while identifying the rema...

The specific aim of this paper is to review the effects of epimuscular myofascial force transmission on muscular mechanics and present some new results on finite element modeling of non-isolated aponeurotomized muscle in order to discuss the dependency of mechanics of spastic muscle, as well as surgery for restoration of function on such force transmission. The etiology of the effects of spasti...

Exerting manual forces is critical during occupational performance. Therefore, being able to estimate maximum force capacity is particularly useful for determining how these manual exertion demands relate to available capacity. To facilitate this type of prediction requires a complete understanding of how maximum force capacity is governed biomechanically. This research focused on identifying h...

Distributing net joint moments produced during a given motor task to the contributor individual muscles has traditionally been challenging due to the mechanical redundancy of the musculoskeletal system. To resolve the indeterminate problem of muscular force-sharing and enhance our understanding of the mechanisms governing motor control, optimizationand EMG-driven models have often been used (e....