OBJECTIVE Hamstring injuries are a common occurrence among professional football cheerleaders. The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of an eccentric, closed-chain hamstring exercise intervention on hamstring injury-associated pain during the course of the football season among professional football cheerleaders. METHODS Forty-three female cheerleaders participated in an eccentr...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a muscle strengthening exercise program using an elastic band on changes in the physical abilities and quality of life of the rural elderly. [Subjects] The subjects of this study were 46 elderly people (8 males, 38 females) aged 65 or older, who lived in a rural area and managed their daily lives independently. [Methods] The stud...

Many physiotherapists and motor preparation coaches recommend including resistance exercises for the hip joint abductors external rotators in a warm-up. Muscle activation with band is believed to improve positional control of pelvis lower limbs, thus reducing risk musculoskeletal injury during rehabilitation or training proper. The aim this study was assess impact single session on gait running...

[2] The date of the eruption of the volcano Thera (Santorini), Greece, during the Minoan archaeological period in the second millennium BC, has been much debated. There have been tens of research papers [e.g., Warren, 1984; Hammer et al., 1987; Baillie and Munro, 1988; Zielinski and Germani, 1998a, 1998b; Wiener, 2003] and at least two books [Hardy and Renfrew, 1990; Manning, 1999] devoted to t...

The evolution of the parton densities at small x is a very rich but complicated issue. The steep rise of the structure function F2 at small x is explained by the presence of a huge gluon number density. The pure DGLAP [ 1, 2, 3, 4] evolution equations, meant to describe the evolution of the parton densities as a function of Q, are able to reproduce the rise of F2 provided the input starting dis...