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COMBINATIONS OF CLINICAL TESTS PREDICT FRONTAL PLANE KNEE ANGLE AND MOMENT IN BILATERAL DROP JUMP
Get PDFThis project investigates whether performance in clinical tests can predict frontal plane knee angle and moment during bilateral drop jumps. Fifty-one recreational male athletes were assessed during clinical tests [lunge, star excursion balance test (SEBT), lateral step down (LSD), hop tests, and knee and hip isometric strength] and biomechanical assessment (3D kinematics and kinetics of bilateral drop jump). Linear regression models determined the predictive capacity of clinical tests to predict biomechanical outcomes. SEBT, triple hop test, LSD and lunge predicted frontal plane knee angle and moment with predictive power from 26 to 45%. A combination of at least two clinical tests significantly improves prediction of frontal plane knee angle and moment during bilateral drop jump. LSD, triple hop test and SEBT provide prediction for frontal plane knee angle and moment
RESULTS OF INVERSE DYNAMICS CALCULATIONS IN JAVELIN THROWING ARE STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY INDIVIDUAL BODY SEGMENT PROPERTIES
Get PDFThe calculation of inverse dynamics (ID) solutions is widely used to examine potential injury risks and sources for performance enhancement. The results of these calculations are influenced, among others, by the chosen set of body segment inertia parameters (BSIP). While throwing movements are frequently analyzed via ID and there exists a broad variety of BSIP models, the influence of the BSIP sets on the outcome is not well examined. Therefore, the aim of this study was to clarify the influence of different BSIP sets on the modelling results in javelin throwing. For this purpose the kinematics of ten male javelin throwers were recorded. Six available models were used to estimate the BSIP values of the upper limp for each thrower. The chosen BSIP model had large influence on the derived BSIP parameters which showed variations between 8% and 120%. Also, the maximum net joint moment varied between 6% and 21%. Hence, our study suggests that for modelling joint kinetics in throwing movements the model should be chosen carefully
A CASE STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF THE UPPER ARM DEFINITION ON SHOULDER AND ELBOW KINEMATICS DURING THE BADMINTON SMASH
Get PDFThe aim of this case study was to identify the effect of the upper arm definition on shoulder and elbow kinematics during the badminton smash. A method was proposed that corrects the false external rotation when using the shoulder-elbow-wrist plane based on the carrying angle (ISB-2C) and compared to ISB recommendations for defining the upper arm (ISB-1 and ISB-2). Differences were found in shoulder and elbow kinematics, in particular angular velocities. Both magnitude and the time history of the angular velocity were affected. In particular, use of the medial and lateral epicondyles was unable to detect a reasonable signal for pronation/supination. ISB-2C reduces some of the problems associated with ISB-1 and ISB-2 e.g. soft-tissue artifact, proximity of medial and lateral epicondyles to the humeral longitudinal axis and false external rotation caused by the carrying angle
REDUCED MOVEMENT ADAPTABILITY IN SIDESTEPPING – A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF INJURY RISK
Get PDFAdapting to different task constraints provides insight into how malleable an athlete’s movement dynamics are. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate whether athletes can adequately change their preferred movement strategy during sidestepping when exposed to a manipulation task. Reduced movement adaptability was hypothesized to be one risk factor for ACL injuries. Fourteen male team sport athletes were investigated. The response to the manipulation task was intra-individual, with rearfoot strikers being less able to adapt their movement strategy and the resulting movement was even higher associated with ACL risk factors. Forefoot strikers were able to adapt their movement. This suggests, that athletes need to be investigated individually as group-based analyses might cover effects and that movement adaptability should be considered when evaluating injury risk
Warrioress in White: A Semiotic Analysis of America\u27s Joan of Arc in The Women of the Copper Country
Get PDFMary Doria Russell’s The Women of the Copper Country is a fictionalized historical account of the 1913 mining strike in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Significantly in this strike, a great deal of leadership was focused in the Union’s Women’s Auxiliary. In particular, one woman formed the backbone of the local movement. Known by her community as Big Annie, Anna Klobuchar Clements was the heart of the 1913 strike. Memories of her bravery linger today in the form of recorded testimonies by elderly community members, immortalization in plaques and songs, and Russell’s popular novel. Today she is remembered not as herself, not as the fully complex, flawed and inspiring person who once lived. She is remembered sometimes as a negative influence on her community, and more commonly as a shining heroine of labor and feminism. Even in her own day, the media contributed to these simplified or one-dimensional portrayals. She was dubbed, An American Joan of Arc
Italian Immigrants in the Lake Superior Basin
Get PDFFrom 1870 through 1920 hundreds of thousands of Italians arrived in the United States and Canada seeking economic opportunity and better lives. They were attracted to cities of the Midwest – Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland – and eastern Canada – Montréal and Toronto -- where as cheap labor they found jobs in factories, railroads, urban construction, and service businesses and created new lives in the Midwest
Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures
No full textTaunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures, a collection of poetry and prose (creative non-fiction and fiction), reflecting themes of trauma, memory, psychic fragmentation and survival is told through hybrid narratives. The writing arises from my own multiple migrations from Taunggyi, Burma, to India and eventually to the United States of America. Taunggyi Dreamer is inspired by: my exile from my birth country, Burma, after the military coup of 1962; my resettlement as a stateless citizen in my ancestral home in India during my teen years; and my arrival to the United States of America in my thirties as a resident alien. The narratives are told through, in part, by ancestral female voices—grandmother and mother— but mostly through the daughter in woman-centered hybrid narratives. It is the community of women, in domestic and public spaces of the home and the world, in India/Burma and the diaspora, that helps define my creative style. I, too, like diasporic writers, use my hybrid sensibilities to create an aesthetic that, although not unique in terms of postcolonialism, is particularly mine; as a tricultural transplant, my writing vividly reflects the pluralistic ethos of an exile and a dislocated diasporic, but who, like George Lamming, also writes about the “pleasures of exile.
My Appointment at Specialty Care Psychiatrics
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EFFICACY OF ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT TRAINING (ACT) IN A TELE-HEALTH FORMAT TO TREAT INDIVIDUALS WITH AN EATING DISORDER
Get PDFDisordered eating is a serious condition which affects an individual’s mental and physical health (Donaldson & Gordon, 2015; Forney et al., 2016). Patients exhibiting the diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder are most commonly treated through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and, more specifically, enhanced CBT (CBT-E). Recent studies have evaluated Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) in reducing disordered eating behaviors and increasing psychological flexibility, demonstrating positive patient outcomes (Berman, Boutelle, & Crow, 2009; Juarascio et al., 2013; Hill et al., 2015; Hill et al., 2020). The purpose of the present study is to further evaluate ACT as an effective treatment for patients exhibiting disordered eating behaviors utilizing a tele-based format. Participants were assigned to one of two groups – ACT and Control – receiving weekly sessions designed to promote values-based behaviors and reduce disordered eating behaviors. Additionally, pre-, mid-, and post-treatment indirect assessments were conducted with each participant in order to evaluate general disordered eating symptomatology, body-image acceptance, psychological flexibility, and cognitive defusion
