background : depression is a mood disorder in which the individual experiences feelings of sadness, lack of pleasure, and discouragement. in light of the increasing rate of depression, especially among tertiary-educated individuals, this paper aims to investigate the effect of resistance exercises on occupational performance areas and depression score in individuals with academic education in i...

conclusions the study findings indicate that short-term exercises had no significant effect on the ratio of vmo to vl muscle fiber angles in patients with pfps. results there were no significant differences in the muscle strength and fiber angle of the vmo, vl oblique and longus muscles after training between the control and experimental groups (p > 0.05). patients and methods thirty-five subje...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of individualized manual physiotherapy and exercises compared with individualized exercises alone in patients with shoulder impingement syndrome. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SUBJECTS Patients with shoulder impingement of more than 4 weeks' duration. METHODS Patients in the intervention group were treated with individually adapted exercises and e...

WhAt constitutes proximAl control? There is level 1 evidence that ‘proximal control’ exercises are effective in the management of common musculoskeletal injuries of the lower extremity. 2 However, there is little agreement on what ‘proximal control’ entails. A meta-analysis by Sugimoto et al examined neuromuscular training for ACL injury prevention and found that exercises incorporating a ‘prox...

The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of three normalization methods for analyzing hip abductor activation during rehabilitation exercises. Thirteen healthy subjects performed three open kinetic chain and three closed kinetic chain hip abductor exercises. Surface EMG activity for the gluteus medius was collected during each exercise and normalized based on a maximum volunta...

The prevalence of sports injuries in martial arts is high. Most Taekwondo injuries also occur in the lower extremities. The aim of this study is to compare the effect of a period of plyometric exercises, with and without stretching exercises, on knee valgus dynamics, flexibility and functional variables of elite female taekwondo athletes at risk of anterior cruciate ligament injuries.  45 elite...

Danish) Vi præsenterer den seneste version af VIA (version 3.0). Udgangspunktet for udviklingen af programmet har været et stort behov både på gymnasieog universitetsniveau for en systematisk træning til styrkelse af de sproglige analytiske færdigheder hos de studerende. Systemet er blevet web-baseret, hvilket gør det muligt at dele øvelser på tværs af institutioner over hele verden. Der er til...