BACKGROUND Ankle sprains are the most common form of acute injury in volleyball. A prevention programme consisting of technical training, proprioceptive training, and external support was previously designed to reduce the rate of ankle sprains in volleyball players. OBJECTIVE To investigate which of these three interventions is the most effective in preventing ankle sprain in female volleybal...

irregular practitioners of medicine and surgery, who occupy to them the same relative position as quacks and bone-setters to European physicians and surgeons. The individuals referred to may be of any caste or profession, but are peculiar in one circumstance, that their skill has been exercised in the same line from father to son?often for many generations. The Brahmins, being as ready as their...

the aim of this study was to determine the interactional effects of various video shows (skilled and self-model) and feedback type on performance and learning of dart throwing skill. 90 volunteers were randomly divided into 6 groups including self-control, experimenter control and yoked feedback that received either skilled model or self-model. three groups who watched the skilled model observe...

background a number of researches indicate that domestic violence (dv) causes abuse and vulnerability of women and children. two components that can decrease violence and divorce are self-concept and self-differentiation. objectives in this research, we compare self-differentiation and self-concept in divorced and non-divorced women that experience domestic violence. materials and methods to ac...

OBJECTIVES To assess a 12-month period and the lifetime prevalence of sports injuries among male athletes according to type of sport, type of injury and its seriousness, and to examine the association of injuries with sociodemographic, lifestyle and preventive factors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we approached 475 professional athletes participating in ball sports, age...

Abstract Moral influence theories of responsibility justify practices praising and blaming by pointing to their effects on the development our reasons-responsive capacities. Exercising these capacities has instrumental value—for example, they enable agents act rightly flourish—but some argue that it is also intrinsically valuable. In this paper, I develop a value theory morally responsible agen...

Protecting children from injuries caused by fall accidents from playground equipment is important. Therefore, measures toward minimizing the risk of fall accident injuries are required. The risk of injury can be evaluated using ASTM F1292. In this test, G-max and the HIC are used to estimate the risk of injury. However, the measurement procedure is too complicated for application to a large num...