by Shahesta A. Osama Ghally, Hesham A. Ali and Mohamed Y. Abdelhamid Abdelsamee
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BACKGROUND: low back pain is a common problems that encountered in physical therapy clinic. Many treatment regime are present. Kinesio-taping is a newly treatment introduced for patients with low back pain. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of kinesio-taping on pain, range of motion, and back muscle strength in non-specific low back pain patients. METHODS AND MEASURES: Twenty four patients were involved in this study. Informed consent were signed by the patients and patients were divided into two groups by randomization ,thirteen in Group A and eleven in Group B. Pain, range of motion, and back muscle strength were assessed on day one and six by VAS scale, modified-modified schober test (MMST), isokinetic dynamometer. Kinesio-taping (KT) was applied twice per six days. Group A patients were receiving I-shape KT longitudinally .Group B patients were receiving K taping Horizontally. RESULTS: The results of this study showed significant improvement in pain intensity and functional disability within groups. No significant differences between both groups. CONCLUSION: The Kinesio-taping with conventional physiotherapy will be more beneficial than kinesio- taping alone when treating nonspecific low back pain patients.
American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2017, 5(4), 86-90. DOI: 10.12691/ajssm-5-4-5
Pub. Date: December 30, 2019
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by Carolina Maria Coelho Campos, Daniel da Rocha Queiroz, Jeymison Tadeu Nunes Da Silva, Anderson Henry P. Feitoza and Maria Teresa Cattuzzo
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It is not clear if the association between motor competence (MC) and organized physical activity (OPA) in teenagers and if it depends on the gender. The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between MC and OPA by gender. Participants, 29 male (19.3±1.3 years) and 38 female (19.0±1.2 years) were assessed by the BOT-2 brief form and by a retrospective questionnaire of the OPA. Males had superior performance in body coordination, strength, agility, and the general motor competence. There were no significant differences between genders in the time spent in OPA; there was a positive and low correlation between MC and OPA, but the correlation showed stronger values only for females. OPA seems to be an enabling environment for the acquisition and development of motor skills that provide the foundation for engagement and motor competence, but gender is an interaction variable.
American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2017, 5(4), 82-85. DOI: 10.12691/ajssm-5-4-4
Pub. Date: December 29, 2017
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by Assia Bouchouicha, Hanane Ghomari-Boukhatem and Malika Bouchenak
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In the last two or three decades, physical activity (PA) has gained increasing recognition as being essential for maintaining good health and improving quality of life for all ages. To evaluate the nutritional status, oxidant/antioxidant, and inflammatory markers, in sports adolescents, a cross sectional study has done in west Algeria. A total of 110 athletes adolescents from special sport classes, aged 11-17 years, were compared to a non athletes group (n=60). Blood pressure, anthropometric and serum parameters were measured. Daily energy intake (DEI) was estimated using 24 hours recall, followed by a 3-days record. Energy expenditure (EE) was evaluated by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-short form (IPAQ-S). Oxidant/antioxidant and inflammatory markers were determined. An increase in body weight and height (p<0.001) was noted in athletes compared to non athletes. DEI was similar in both groups, whereas EE was higher in athletes than non athletes (p<0.001). Serum triacylglycerol (TG) values were lower in athletes group than in non athletes (p<0.05). Enhanced values were observed in glutathione peroxidase (GPx) (p<0.001), and superoxide dismutase (SOD) (p<0.05) activity, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) (p<0.01) in athletes compared to non athletes. Significant relationships were found between height, weight, albumin, GPx, TNF-α, IL-1, and EE. Significant associations were noted between GPx (OR=0.14; 95% CI 0.03, 1.05), inflammatory markers TNF-α (OR=0.47; 95% CI 0.28, 0.80), IL-1 (OR=1.17; 95% CI 0.28, 0.80) and physical activity. Significant relationships were found between weight (P < 0.001), height (P < 0.01), albumin, GPx, IL-1, TNFα (P < 0.05) and EE. In spite of inadequate DEI in athletes adolescents, beneficial effect of sport is observed by lowering serum TG concentrations. However, more research in this area is warranted to clarify sport nutrition needs to provide better and healthy nutritional guidance to young athletes.
American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2017, 5(4), 75-81. DOI: 10.12691/ajssm-5-4-3
Pub. Date: December 20, 2017
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by Nishan Singh Deol and Davinder Singh
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The present study was aimed to identify the role of Spiritual Intelligence in performance of basketball players. For this purpose of selection of the subjects around N=250 Female Basketball Players of 20-30 years of age group were chosen to acts as subjects. The entire group of players were further sliced into three group which include (N1= 50 International Basketball Players; N2= 100 Senior National level Basketball Players and N3= 100 All India Inter-university level Basketball Players). The major aim of this sampling technique was to formulate the objectives of the study. One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were employed to compare the three groups of Basketball Players. Where ‘F’ values were found significant, Scheffe Post-hoc test were applied to find out the direction and degree of difference. For testing the hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. In a nutshell it can be said that from the findings that significant differences were found in basketball players on the sub-variables of Spiritual Intelligence i.e., The Inner Self, The Inter Self and Spiritual Intelligence (Total). However, insignificant differences had been observed in the basketball players on the sub-variables of Spiritual Intelligence i.e., Biostoria, Life Perspectives, Spiritual Actualization and Value Orientation.
American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2017, 5(4), 69-74. DOI: 10.12691/ajssm-5-4-2
Pub. Date: December 09, 2017
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by Peter D. Hart
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The aim of this study was to examine the multivariate associate between physical activity (PA) parameters and body composition (BC) measures in college students. A total of N=60 college students who completed a PA questionnaire and had their BC assessed were included in this study. Three variables were used to measure the PA construct: VO2max (ml/kg/min), minutes of moderate PA (MMPA) (min/week), and muscle strengthening activity (MSA) (days/week). Three variables were used to measure the BC construct: percent body fat (PBF) (%), body mass index (BMI) (kg/m2), and waist circumference (WC) (cm). Three different statistical software packages were used to ensure consistent canonical correlation analysis (CCA) findings: SAS, SPSS, and R. Two variates presented useful in the CCA. The first variate showed 77.8% explained variance and a large canonical correlation (rc = .512). The second variate showed 21.8% explained variance and a modest canonical correlation (rc = .301). All communalities (h2s) were large for PA variables. However, h2s were only large for PBF and BMI in the BC construct. Results from this study indicate that PA and BC constructs are correlated with each other in college students. Of particular note, is the contribution of MSA, MMPA, PBF, and BMI to the first variate. As well, the contribution of VO2max, MSA, and BMI to the second variate. These findings may suggest two different relationships between PA and BC: 1) a general PA behavior and BC relationship and 2) an exercise and BC relationship.
American Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2017, 5(4), 64-68. DOI: 10.12691/ajssm-5-4-1
Pub. Date: November 27, 2017
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