OBJECTIVE To analyse sports activities of patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) over lifetime, preoperatively, and 5 years after arthroplasty. METHODS In a longitudinal four centre study, 809 consecutive patients with advanced OA of the hip (420) or the knee (389) joint under the age of 76 years who required total joint replacement were recruited. A completed questionnaire about sport...

Objective: To analyse sports activities of patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) over lifetime, preoperatively, and 5 years after arthroplasty. Methods: In a longitudinal four centre study, 809 consecutive patients with advanced OA of the hip (420) or the knee (389) joint under the age of 76 years who required total joint replacement were recruited. A completed questionnaire about sport...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between proximity to specific sports facilities and participation in the corresponding sports activities for adolescents in Germany. METHODS A sample of 1,768 adolescents aged 11-17 years old and living in 161 German communities was examined. Distances to the nearest sports facilities were calculated as an indicator of proximity to sports facilities using...

A substantial part of the entertainment industry is devoted to the visualization of human activity. Frequently, these activities involve many people interacting. Examples include reality shows, dance, music and theatrical performances but most prominently sports events, especially team sports such as ice hockey, basketball and football. Today’s experience of these live sports events is primaril...

BACKGROUND Teamwork is a fundamental aspect of many human activities, from business to art and from sports to science. Recent research suggest that team work is of crucial importance to cutting-edge scientific research, but little is known about how teamwork leads to greater creativity. Indeed, for many team activities, it is not even clear how to assign credit to individual team members. Remar...

The role of curricular activities for the formation of education, health and behavioural outcomes has been widely studied. Yet, the role of extra-curricular activities has received little attention. This study analyzes the effect of participation in sports clubs-one of the most popular extra-curricular activities among children. We use alternative datasets and flexible semi-parametric estimatio...

Community sports fitness as one of important parts in China’s sports, it exerts influences on community’s every resident life and health. In current stage, though China’s community sports activities have some development, they still have problems in development process that need to be timely solved. The paper conducts comprehensive analysis of China’s community sports fitness activities, and co...