Background: Identifying lower extremity defects during high impact activity, such as landing, especially in young athletes who play team sports, could help to prevent non-contact lower extremity injuries. The Tuck Jump Assessment (TJA) is a screening instrument designed to recognize neuromuscular deficits related to Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury. The current study investigated the pre...

An on-line questionnaire was completed by 115 physical education teachers to establish the barriers to their implementation of physical education in Victorian state secondary schools. In addition, the barriers perceived by teachers to impact on students’ participation in school-based physical education and physical activity were examined. The barriers to the provision of physical education were...

the major aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two teachingmethods of traditional (common) and integrated for physical education on learningbiology and developing social skills in male junior students. this study was semiexperimentalwhich was conducted in islamshahr city for 12 weeks. the statisticalpopulation consisted of 79 volunteer junior students who studied the second gra...

With the purpose of adapting the sport motivation scale (Pelletier, Fortier, Vallerand, Tuscon, Briere, & Blais, 1995) to the population of students in the final grades of elementary school, that is, with the purpose of measuring their motivation in physical education classes, 305 female and male students of finishing grades were examined. All scales had good metric characteristics, except the ...

BACKGROUND Vital Capacity (VC) is defined as a change in volume of lung after maximal inspiration followed by maximal expiration is called Vital Capacity of lungs. It is the sum of tidal volume, inspiratory reserve volume .and expiratory reserve volume. Vital capacity of normal adults ranges between 3 to 5 litres. A number of physiological factors like age, gender, height and ethnicity effect l...

The research was carried out in order to determine the infl uence of morphological characteristics, motor and functional abilities (predictor sets) on the athletics program content of physical education (criterion set) of the elementary school students. A sample of 105 respondents was taken from the population of the seventh and eighth grade male students of elementary schools in Nis. 14 measur...

INTRODUCTION During the past 3 decades, the number of overweight adolescents increased while adolescent engagement in physical activity decreased. We investigated the prevalence of overweight and physical activity levels among economically disadvantaged and minority middle- and high-school students in a school district in Florida. In particular, data on physical activity levels of middle-school...

background: the relationship between aerobic capacity (vo2max) and physical activity throughout the world is extensive research. this study aimed to estimate aerobic capacity, and the physical activity and demographic factors that affect the male students. method: in this study, 68 male students of health school in isfahan university of medical sciences  had participated voluntarily. subjects s...