Background: Mountain biking (MTB) is an increasingly popular sport that has been associated with serious spinal injuries, which can have devastating effects on patients and significant impacts healthcare resources. Herein, we characterized the occurrence of these MTB injuries over a 15-year period analyzed affiliated acute-care hospital costs. Methods: Patients seen at Vancouver General Hospita...

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between laboratory-assessed variables and cross-country marathon mountain biking (XCM-MTB) performance suggest a more practical approach monitor during competitive phase. Nine elite athletes performed battery of tests phase season, one week before race. Correlations physiological neuromuscular mean race completion time were verified multiple regre...

Human-centered transportation (walking and biking) has been the cheapest, healthiest, most convenient mode of throughout history. In new global economy, walking biking have become common modes for low-income groups people. Kabul is biggest city in Afghanistan with scattered space organizations currently unfavorable due to insufficient attention pedestrian bicycle routes planning poor road netwo...

Background: Giving the rising trend in childhood obesity in many countries including Switzerland, strategies to increase physical activity such as promoting active school travel are important. Yet, little is known about time trends of active commuting in Swiss schoolchildren and factors associated with changes in walking and biking to school. Methods: Between 1994 and 2005, information about mo...

PURPOSE This research investigated participation rates in 3 modes of active commuting (AC) and their sociodemographic and physical environmental correlates in rural America. METHODS The 2000 Census supplemented with other data sets were used to analyze AC rates in percentage of workers walking, biking, and taking public transportation to work in 14,209 nonmetropolitan rural tracts identified ...

BACKGROUND Giving the rising trend in childhood obesity in many countries including Switzerland, strategies to increase physical activity such as promoting active school travel are important. Yet, little is known about time trends of active commuting in Swiss schoolchildren and factors associated with changes in walking and biking to school. METHODS Between 1994 and 2005, information about mo...

We conduct a cross-sectional ecological analysis to examine environmental correlates of active commuting in 39,660 urban tracts using data from the 2010 Census, 2007-2011 American Community Survey, and other sources. The five-year average (2007-2011) prevalence is 3.05% for walking, 0.63% for biking, and 7.28% for public transportation to work, with higher prevalence for all modes in lower-inco...