Purpose: Sport-related concussions have shown to have effects on self-efficacy, oculomotor performance, reaction time and an increased risk of lower extremity injury. Most studies have been conducted to test the effects of acute concussions in athletes and not on long-term effec…
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Introduction: The sport of rock climbing is a young sport in terms of competitive sport. For most of its history, rock climbing has been a recreational sport. Due to the youth of the sport there has been little research done on rock climbing. Older traditional sports have had su…
Purpose of Project The purpose of this project is to provide a much-needed manual for long-distance female runners and their coaches. The manual was developed based on existing scientific peer-reviewed literature in collaboration with the Human Performance and Biomechanics Labor…
Background. The goal of this study was to determine the effects of dynamic neuromuscular stabilization (DNS) on squat strength when compared to glute strengthening exercises in individuals between the ages of 18 and 35 experiencing low back pain (LBP). Additionally, DNS was comp…
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States, second to anxiety (Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 2016). Depression can lead to various emotional and physical problems that decrease a person’s functions and lead to…
This study bridges the gap between self-defense classes whose founders, instructors, and students are predominantly white, advocating for an individualistic and embodied self-defense, compared to the self-defense practiced by women of color that took a different form, communal a…
Background: Competitive cheerleaders may be at risk of suffering from the Female Athlete Triad (Triad) but there is limited current research available. The purpose was to examine individual and combined Triad components (low energy availability (LEA) with or without an eating di…
Recuando até 2011, é possível recordar a altura em que Portugal recorreu à sua 3ª ajuda financeira internacional da história, acordando um financiamento de 78 mil milhões de euros com a troika, em troca do cumprimento de diversos objetivos, tais como o alcance de metas orçamenta…
Este trabalho aborda uma proposta de utilização do filme etnográfico no processo de recuperar a voz e dar a conhecer a resistência política e cultural dos africanos no Portugal do Estado Novo. Esse exercício de revelação é, em certa medida, um esforço de contra narrativa, de des…
A presente dissertação teve como objetivo, esperamos alcançado, o de promover não apenas à contextualização legal (ou falta dela) da figura da telemedicina mas outrossim sublevar os desafios que daquele quadro derivam em sede de responsabilidade civil médica. A telemedicina cons…
O Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP) passou por várias mudanças, influenciadas por diversos contextos sociais, políticos e económicos, que se refletiram na sua estrutura orgânico-funcional, desde a sua origem, em 1886, até ao Instituto que hoje …
Durante séculos, os jogos e apostas foram vistos como um fenómeno reprovável e nocivo, não só pela incompatibilidade com os ideais religiosos, como também devido aos problemas éticos e morais a que estão associados. Contudo, apesar de não ser um fenómeno consensual, é inegável o…
Documented risks of physical activity include reduced bone mineral density at high activity volume, and sudden cardiac death among adults and adolescents. Further illumination of these risks is needed to inform future public health guidelines. The present research seeks to 1) qu…
Thul and LaVoi (2011) conducted a study in 2008, titled "Reducing Physical Inactivity and Promoting Active Living: From the Voices of East African Immigrant Adolescent Girls," to learn about barriers facing this underserved population. The purpose of the study was to explore Eas…
Amaç: Karate kumite de, baskın bacağın önde ve arkada olduğu gard pozisyonlarında uygulanan kizami zuki (KZ) yumruk vuruş tekniğindeki bacak itiş gücünün, yumruk hızı ve diğer parametrelerle olan ilişkisinin incelenmesidir. Gereç ve yöntem: Araştırmaya yaş ortalaması 24 yaş (± 3…
While the majority of athletic trainers are women, research showed that many women left the profession between 28 and 35 years of age. Reasons for this phenomenon have been examined using traditional researcher-centered approaches. However, in 2019, the Strategic Alliance Resear…
A convenience sample of undergraduate and graduate college students (n=354) at three universities in a Midwestern state were surveyed to ascertain differences pertaining to six Health Belief Model (HBM) constructs and one proposed construct (misperceived benefits), all related t…
This study examined the extent to which physical activity policies may be associated with consistent disparities in meeting physical activity recommendations across racial/ethnic groups. The analyses found that policies were not consistently related to disparities in physical ac…