OBJECTIVE To conduct a preliminary investigation of the effects on floatation spa therapy on quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis to see if controlled trials are warranted. DESIGN Uncontrolled clinical trial. SETTING Private floatation spa therapy centre. PATIENTS Fourteen patients with chronic osteoarthritis of the weight-bearing joints, of whom four dropped out. INTERVENTIO...

Previous studies have shown immediate compliance with weight-bearing instructions to be better after biofeedback training than after verbal or scale training. This study assessed retention of biofeedback training to determine potential clinical applicability. Twelve participants were enrolled in a prospective clinical study at an academic orthopedic center. Participants were trained with a biof...

Human footprint fossils have provided essential evidence about the evolution of human bipedalism as well as the social dynamics of the footprint makers, including estimates of speed, sex and group composition. Generally such estimates are made by comparing footprint evidence with modern controls; however, previous studies have not accounted for the variation in footprint dimensions coming from ...

Volley ballis a sub-weight-level sport, and weight requirements of the project are in the pre-race period of time to reduce body weight. Option volleyball team for dietary analysis of the survey was to understand Athletes in weight control by pre-and post-meal nutrition through body composition and blood biochemical indicators to understand the health status of athletes. The unreasonable parts ...

According to the Statistical Yearbook of China's sports undertakings and the related Statistical Yearbook, as well as related indicators Construction principles, the sustainable development evaluation index system of China's sports is constructed. This essay uses entropy coefficient method to research on the weight of every subsystem and indicator in the Sports sustainable development and find ...

AIM To evaluate the association between maternal physical activity and infant's birth weight or risk of inappropriate weight for gestational age (GA), and whether this association differs by infant's sex, maternal body mass index (BMI) or pregnancy complications in a prospective cohort study. METHODS 1913 pregnant women from the 3D Birth Cohort (Québec, Canada) completed the Pregnancy Physica...

BACKGROUND Repetitions of pre-competition weight-loss diets done by athletes participating in weight class sports can be regarded as periods of weight cycling. The aim of the present study is to identify the long term post-career (22 years) evolutionary profile of athletes' BMI after such weight cycling. METHODS One hundred and thirty-six retired French athletes who participated in major inte...