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Physical activity levels and shoulder pain in wheelchair users during COVID-19 restrictions
No full textBackground: Manual wheelchair users are at high risk of developing shoulder pain. However, it is not known if restrictions to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus affected physical activity, wheelchair use and shoulder pain. Objective: The aim of the study is to determine whether COVID-19 related restrictions caused changes in physical activity levels and the presence of shoulder pain in persons who use a wheelchair. Methods: Manual wheelchair users completed a survey about the presence and severity of shoulder pain in a cross-sectional study design. Participants completed the Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire and were asked about daily wheelchair activity before and during lockdown. A logistic regression examined the relationship between increase in shoulder pain severity and change in activity levels. Results: Sixty respondents were included for analysis. There was no significant change in physical activity during lockdown. There was a significant reduction in number of hours of daily wheelchair use and number of chair transfers during lockdown. Of the respondents, 67% reported having shoulder pain and 22% reported their shoulder pain becoming more severe during lockdown. No significant relationship was observed between the change in activity levels and increasing severity of shoulder pain. Conclusion: Restrictions to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus resulted in no changes in physical activity levels in a sample of adult manual wheelchair users; however, there was a reduced time using a wheelchair each day and fewer chair transfers. The changes in wheelchair activities were not related to the worsening of shoulder pain.</p
Glenohumeral joint internal rotation and scapular kinematics in elite wheelchair tennis players
No full textSlow culture: an introduction
No full text[Extract] There is a powerful message permeating our social lives today, found in our self-help networks, talkback television and radio shows, and online forums. It is a warning that, through technology and modernisation, our lifestyles have become increasingly hectic, fast, complex and immediate. 'Life', writes online author Leo Babauta (2009, para. 2), 'moves at such a fast pace that it seems to pass us by before we can really enjoy it'. We are encouraged to take a step back, to breathe deeply and 'slow down', in order to recapture the essence of 'real' living. By doing so, we can escape the seemingly endless stresses associated with our multi-tasked, time-compressed and instantaneous speed culture (Tomlinson 2007). This book presents illustrations of how people are beginning to disentangle themselves from a speed culture by embracing slowness. It is not simply a matter of slowing down, as the term implies, but of undertaking changes in the way we do things at an everyday level. Underpinning these transformations is a concern, as Babauta (2009) suggests, with the uniquely stressful lifestyles we are living in contemporary culture
Shoulder pain and function in professional wheelchair tennis players
No full textWheelchair use places large demands on the shoulder with up to 72% of users experiencing shoulder pain. Wheelchair users who take part in sport place additional demands the shoulder both in terms of the number of load cycles and the amplitude of forces. However, very little is known of the effects of sport participation on shoulder pain and function of wheelchair which may increase pain or provide a protective benefit for the shoulder and reduce pain. The aim of the study was to investigate the presence of shoulder pain and bilateral function of the shoulder in professional wheelchair tennis players. The presence of shoulder pain and impingement was recorded in eleven wheelchair tennis players using the Wheelchair Users Shoulder Disability Index (WUSPI) questionnaire and clinical examination. Kinematics of the scapula during humeral elevation and lowering in the scapular plane were obtained utilising the acromion marker cluster technique. A repeated measures ANOVA with main effects of side and humeral elevation angle was used to determine differences in kinematics between the dominant and non-dominant sides. Results of the self-reported shoulder pain questionnaire demonstrated participants experienced little pain that interfered with daily life with an average WUSPI score of 28 ± 13.8. Clinical examination demonstrated all impingement tests were negative for all participants. Kinematic analysis showed that the scapula was in a significantly greater posterior tilt orientation of 3.9° on the dominant side compared to the non-dominant side during humeral elevation and lowering. Although not statistically significant, the scapula was more internally rotated by 7.2° on the non-dominant side compared to the dominant side. There were no significant differences or trends between sides for scapular upward rotation. Despite the increased demands on the shoulder through sport participation and asymmetry in scapular kinematics there was an absence of pain or clinical signs of shoulder impingement within this professional sporting group. Further work is needed to understand the role of sport participation and exercise on shoulder pain and function in wheelchair users
Nick Earls launches 'Wisdom Tree' - a new model for novella publishing, 9 Jun 2016
No full textBrisbane author Nick Earls discusses 'Wisdom Tree' a new model for novella publishing with fellow author and UQ Senior Lecturer in writing Dr Kim Wilkins. In 2013, Nick Earls realised his five best story ideas would need padding to become novels and would lose something if he tried to trim them to short-story size. He had to write them, and they had to be novellas. He also realised it was time to confront head-on the publishing industry's reluctance to work with the novella form. The result is Wisdom Tree, a new model for novella publishing, a PhD project and a chance to turn his best ideas into a series of five novellas to be published as individual paper, e and audiobooks at monthly intervals from May to September 2016.Introductions by Professor Doune Macdonald, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Nick de Grandmaison Jr. Reading Our Heritage by John Fisher
No full textAn audograph recording of Nick de Grandmaison Junior reading an excerpt from Our Heritage by John Fisher. The text details the author encountering Red Cloud and David Bearspaw, members of the Stoney tribe, in a Banff hotel lobby on their way to sit for Nicholas de Grandmaison. From here, the clip speaks to why he chose to paint Indigenous peoples, the history of the Blackfoot people, language and colonial contact.The University of Lethbridge Library received permission from the University of Lethbridge Archives and the Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess Gallery to digitize and display this content.Not yet availabl
Bold masked robbers; or, Nick Carter's lively conflict / by the author of "Nick Carter," [Incomplete].
No full textNick Carter in Wall Street; or, Tracking a stolen fortune / by the author of "Nick Carter."
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Nick DiChario
No full textNick DiChario visited The College at Brockport in September 1996. He is an author and essayist of fiction.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
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