Introduction: The study objective was to investigate the experience of individuals living with Type 2 diabetes (T2DM), some of who participated in a smartphone-based health coaching intervention, and, particularly, their ...

People can rapidly adapt their movements to a wide array of changes in our environment or the motor apparatus, although this ability can decline with age. Adaptation of movements, such as reaching with altered visual ...

The purpose of this thesis was to examine pain developers (PD) and non-pain developers (NPD) musculoskeletal responses to a repetitive dynamic axial twisting exposure when performed to self-reported fatigue. Trunk/pelvis ...

Up until recently, refugees and asylum-seekers, and even more so, the relationship between sport and settlement, has generally been written out of discussions surrounding sport for development (SFD). This study seeks to ...

High cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is associated with favorable health outcomes, independent of BMI, however it is unknown if this still applies to individuals with moderate to severe obesity. Patients from the Wharton ...

In daily life, people frequently perform various aiming movements, such as reaching or making a saccade toward a cellphone. The early stage for executing such movements is to localize the target location precisely. A visual ...

Suspected mechanisms by which axial twist contributes to low back pain have recently been investigated using MRI. However, the impact of the supine orientation required in horizontal MRI, and prevalence of prohibitive ...

Background Health-based report cards have been used as a tool to disseminate research findings to parents, government agencies, stakeholders, and the general public. In Canada, health-based report cards such as the Canadian ...

In healthy children and adolescents, increased white matter integrity is highly correlated with cognitive and language development. Moreover, higher level of physical activity has been shown to confer positive effects on ...

A healthy mitochondrial pool in skeletal muscle is maintained by the coordinated processes of biogenesis and mitophagy. PGC-1alpha is a key transcriptional co-activator necessary for mitochondrial synthesis, whereas ...