UNLABELLED Aging of the worldwide population is a concern of most governmental entities, spanning practically all areas of prevention and rehabilitation. Aging leads to physiological alterations that result in adverse social and financial effects. There is a trend to emphasize prevention, which is less expensive and socially more desirable than therapeutic intervention. PURPOSE To assess the ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of aquatic backward locomotion exercise and progressive resistance exercise with a machine on lumbar extension strength in patients who have undergone diskectomy for a lumbar disk herniation. DESIGN Prospective comparative study. SETTING Department of Kinesiology at a state university. PARTICIPANTS Male patients (N=30) with disk herniation at spinal levels...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of aquatic exercise and education on fall risk factors in older adults with hip osteoarthritis (OA). METHOD Seventy-nine adults, 65 years of age or older with hip OA and at least 1 fall risk factor, were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: aquatics and education (AE; aquatic exercise twice a wk with once-a-wk group education), aquatics only (A; 2 wk aquatic ex...

to evaluate physical activity of pregnant women before and after acog guideline study. four hundred and eighty-five pregnant women enrolled in this before-after study. they were asked to study acog guideline. a structured questionnaire filled by women at first visit and the last visit in the prenatal clinic.type, frequency, duration and anxiety about doing exercises during pregnancy period. bef...

      Purpose: The aim of this study is to change one of the primary impairments associated with multiple sclerosis, i.e. ataxia, in which there is insufficient postural control. Materials and Methods: The current randomized controlled trial investigated the effects of aquatic exercise on postural control in MS ataxic patients. Thirty-two patients with multiple sclerosis...

In order to conduct grey relational analysis of the teaching skills and learning results of aerobics, based on brief introduction of related theories of the grey relational analysis method, this paper uses the viewpoints of system theory to systematically classify the teaching skills of aerobics. Finally, the grey relational analysis method in statistics is combined with the study on the learni...

Since the aerobics is introduced into the college and university, it becomes popular in teachers and students. In order to develop the aerobics better and improve the level of the aerobics, it is necessary to predict the aerobics performance. Support vector machine method is one of the frequently-used prediction methods. In order to improve the performance of traditional LS-SVM, we put forward ...