OBJECTIVE To develop an efficient clinical screening battery to accurately predict the fitness to drive in people with Parkinson disease (PD). METHODS This prospective study included 80 participants: 40 patients with PD and 40 healthy age- and sex-matched control subjects. All participants were assessed using a driving simulator, a driving history survey, and the Clinical Dementia Rating. The...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether perceived sports competence mediates the relationship between childhood motor skill proficiency and subsequent adolescent physical activity and fitness. METHODS In 2000, children's motor skill proficiency was assessed as part of a school-based physical activity intervention. In 2006/07, participants were followed up as part of th...

BACKGROUND Adolescents with low motor competence participate less in physical activity and tend to exhibit decreased physical fitness compared to their peers with high motor competence. It is therefore essential to identify new methods of enhancing physical fitness in this population. Active video games (AVG) have been shown to improve motor performance, yet investigations of its impact on phys...

Aging has negative effects on motor and cognitive functions, therefore finding appropriate strategies to prevent the decline of these functions is necessary. It seems that cardiovascular fitness obtained by aerobic activity is a physiological mediator that explains the relationship between physical activity and improved cognitive performance. The aim of this research was to assess the effect...

AIM To examine the relation between physical fitness and gross motor capacity in children with cerebral palsy (CP) who were classified in Gross Motor Function Classification System levels I or II. METHOD In total, 68 children with CP (mean age 12y 1mo, SD 2y 8mo; 44 males, 24 females; 45 classified as having spastic unilateral CP, 23 as having spastic bilateral CP) participated in this study....

Objetivo: analizar las posibles asociaciones entre el grado de desarrollo habilidades motrices básicas y la condición física relacionada con salud en escolares Educación Primaria. Métodos: 21 sanos (14 niñas) 7-12 años se evaluó competencia motriz, mediante Test of Gross Motor Development, que aporta puntuaciones globales, locomotrices control objetos; y, también salud, batería ALPHA-Fitness in...

Sport-specific motor fitness tests are not often examined in water polo. In this study we examined the reliability, factorial and discriminative validity of 10 water-polo-specific motor-fitness tests, namely: three tests of in-water jumps (thrusts), two characteristic swimming sprints (10 and 20 metres from the water start), three ball-throws (shoots), one test of passing precision (accuracy), ...