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Strength & Conditioning for Artistic Sports: Cheerleading, Dance and Gymnastics
Get PDFThrough conducting interviews with various coaches and athletes that have either worked or participated in cheerleading, dance or gymnastics, I gathered data to support the need for more of an emphasis on strength and conditioning for these athletes. Due to the varying degrees of the sports where gymnastics is recognized at the varsity level and cheer/dance are considered club sports, this interferes with access to various resources on campus which may be needed to further support their athleticism and injury prevention. Additionally, each of these sports shares a unique perspective on what strength and conditioning means to them and the relevance to their sport. Overall, I am looking to promote the health and well being of these artistic athletes and see where improvements can be made so that they can become the best athletes they can be in addition to those athletes that participate in mainstream sports.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/rcac_2025_posters/1147/thumbnail.jp
Active Aging: Proposed Solution to Challenges of Elderly Participation in Recreation Programs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Get PDFWith the elderly populations in Massachusetts (MA) and New Hampshire (NH) continuing to grow, it is important to provide them with age-appropriate physical activity programming.Many health issues and diseases that affect older people are linked to living a sedentary lifestyle and participation in recreation programs can help to combat this. This needs assessment is to examine the challenges of elderly participation in recreation programs in MA and NH and propose potential improvements.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/rcac_2025_posters/1149/thumbnail.jp
Olympic Cleans: Functions, Coaching, and Forgotten Details
Get PDFThis project will be covering both the Clean and Snatch movements. Not only how to coach each movement for beginner athletes, but also important notes regarding equipment and effectiveness of the exercises and their benefits.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/rcac_2025_posters/1154/thumbnail.jp
Impact of Pain Management Strategies on Pelvic Pain
Get PDFPelvic pain is common among reproductive-aged females. There are various treatments and therapies to help manage symptoms, but alternative pain management strategies would significantly benefit from more research and awareness. Specifically, this directed study focuses on analyzing aspects that affect pelvic pain and whether certain management strategies make pelvic pain better or worse. We utilized a cross-sectional study to analyze data from a specific population at a certain point in time. Participants were included in the study if they were a current Merrimack College undergraduate student, aged 18-25 years old, female, experienced pelvic pain in the last 6 months, with a severity of 4 or greater on 0-10 pain rating scale (0=no pain, 10=worst pain imaginable). Participants were recruited to this study through promotional flyers hung up around campus and the study is listed on the SONA research platform at Merrimack College. Our questionnaire asked about general demographics, menstrual characteristics, pelvic pain symptoms, use of hormonal and non-hormonal medications, pelvic pain characteristics, and different pain management strategies. For the poster, we will investigate whether or not pain management strategies improve or worsen pain for this with period pain and those with general pelvic pain. Analyses will be conducted using SPSS v30. As of March 17th, 55 participants had completed the study questionnaire. Almost 50% of participants with period pain reported that exercise made their pain better although 34% reported that exercise made their pain worse. Results will be updated for the poster.https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/rcac_2025_posters/1165/thumbnail.jp
Analysis of bending-induced uncertainty in dynamic tensile strength measurements using Theta specimens
Get PDFIntegrating rock climbing into the mathematics curriculum - An enactive affordance-based approach
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Competitive Food Policy and Food Behavior and Health Metrics in K-12 Students: A Scoping Review
No full textSchool meals provide nearly half of children\u27s daily calories, making them critical to childhood health. School food policies aim to improve student health by shaping the school food environment. While this environmental influence is known, the impact of these policies, especially following the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, has not recently been synthesized. This review searched PubMed, EMBASE, ERIC, and Cochrane databases, identifying 28 studies assessing school food policy on student health. Of these, 23 found positive health effects from competitive food policies, and 5 found mixed positive and neutral effects. No studies reported negative impacts. These findings suggest that competitive food policies are an effective and equitable strategy for improving health that school nurses can support. This review synthesizes the current evidence on competitive food policy to establish baseline evidence for the function of such policies to promote population health and find areas where further research would be useful
“Falling Short of our Humanity”: Shame and Queer Catholic Families
No full textQueer Catholic Families (QCF) negotiate a complicated landscape of belonging and exclusion in the church that they love. In this dynamic, shame figures as a theological and moral qualifier of their experience when observed through the lens of the Catholic Church\u27s teaching on sexuality and gender. Understanding how shame is experienced in these families, how it deepens a rift between families and the community, and how families find ways to nourish and preserve their links to the Church, ought to be a primary ethical and pastoral task of the Church