National physical education have a deep mass base. Introducing it into school can make up for the lack of curriculum content and culture, help to improve students' enthusiasm exercise. It is considered that should be reformed through rules reform, equipment reform difficulty reduction, combined with class, extracurricular activities competitions build school-based national traditional education.

Shazareen N. Khan, BSc; Sherry L. Grace, PhD; Paul Oh, MD; Sonia Anand, MD, PhD; Donna E. Stewart, MD; Gilbert Wu, MD; Milan Gupta, MD; on behalf of the CRCARE Investigators South Asians (SA) are predisposed to developing premature coronary heart disease (CHD), partly due to the early onset of classic risk factors, including physical inactivity. The nature of physical activity (PA) environments...

In this study, we assessed indoor horse riding exercise's effects on basal physical exercise and activities of daily living (ADL) function using horse riding equipment, involving elderly test subjects (in their sixties). The participants were 20 people with no impediment to activity. They participated in experiments that lasted 60 min per day, 3 days per week, over 8 weeks, using the "SRider" (...

This study aimed to develop an equipment and system of resistance exercise (RE), based on squat-type exercise for rodents, with control of training variables. We developed an operant conditioning system composed of sound, light and feeding devices that allowed optimized RE performance by the animal. With this system, it is not necessary to impose fasting or electric shock for the animal to perf...

Most hemodialysis patients require antihypertensive therapy. Aerobic exercise has been suggested as a nonpharmacologic treatment for hypertension in many patient populations, including those with chronic renal failure. To test the effectiveness of this therapy in an outpatient long-term hemodialysis clinic, the hemodialysis staff instituted a stationary cycling program during dialysis and offer...

BACKGROUND Myocardial dysfunction is a well-documented outcome of extended periods of high cardiac output. Whether similar effects occur during firefighting, an occupation characterized by repeated periods of work compounded by dehydration and heat stress, is uncertain. AIMS To investigate the independent and combined effects of moderate heat stress and dehydration on indicators of myocardial...

Examining the hemodynamic responses to exercise provides a unique opportunity to analyze and integrate cardiovascular physiology because more is learned about how a system operates when it is forced to perform than when it is idle. We designed a laboratory exercise that examines the cardiovascular responses to exercise in a sedentary individual, an athlete, an individual with quadriplegia, and ...

[Purpose] This study examined the effects of band exercise types on the physical ability and muscular topography for elderly females. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-six females older than 65 years were divided into the dynamic band exercise (DBE; n=13) group and the Static band exercise (SBE; n=13) group. Each participant performed 12 weeks of elastic band exercises. Physical abilities were meas...

[Purpose] The objective of this study was to determine the effect of thoracic joint mobilization and self-stretching exercise on the pulmonary functions of patients with chronic neck pain. [Subjects] The present study was performed with 34 patients with chronic neck pain featuring thoracic kyphosis; we divided them into a thoracic joint mobilization group (TJMG, n = 11), self-stretching exercis...

0957-4158/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.mechatronics.2011.01.005 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +90 212 383 28 88; f E-mail addresses: [email protected], eakdoga [email protected], [email protected] (M.A This study explains the design and control of three degrees of freedom therapeutic exercise robot (Physiotherabot) for the lower limbs of a patient who...