Adapted Physical Activity: Health and Fitness

✍ Scribed by Kyonosuke Yabe Ph. D., Katsuhiko Kusano, Hideo Nakata (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Studies on physical education and sports for persons with disabilities are an interdisciplinary domain in which theory and practice are closely intertwined. In fact, one of the primary objectives of professionals in this field is to eliminate the existing separation between the theoretical and practical aspects of their work. This volume, consisting of selected papers presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Adapted Physical Activity, was published with the aim of providing researchers and practitioners with insights into each other's work. The 39 contributions in this book deal with a wide range of themes including the health and fitness of people with disabilities, innovative sports teaching methods, biofeedback training and motor control, the medical aspects of rehabilitation, and physical activity programs for the elderly.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sports for People with Handicaps....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Adapted Physical Activity Pedagogy: Principles, Practices, and Creativity....Pages 13-19
Adapted Physical Education Programs for Mentally Retarded Children....Pages 20-24
Legislative Influences on Adapted Physical Activity and Sports in the USA....Pages 26-31
Sources of Enjoyment and Sources of Stress Among Sports Participants with Visual Disabilities....Pages 32-36
Effects of Physical Education Programs on Children with Learning Disabilities....Pages 37-40
Sports for the Disabled in Slovenia—New Directions: Institutionalized Physically Disabled Youth in Slovenia and Their Preferences in Active and Passive Sports Participation....Pages 41-46
Physical Disability: The Brazilian Society Creates, “Rehabilitates”, and Stigmatizes....Pages 47-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
The Handicapped as Depicted in the Art of Japan....Pages 53-55
Study of the Longitudinal Evaluation of Physical Activity and Sports in Cardiac Transplant Recipients....Pages 56-61
Development of Pressure Sores in Active and Inactive Persons with Spinal Cord Injury....Pages 62-67
Effects of Feeding Levels and Body Weight Loading on Muscle Size and Visceral Organ Sizes in Rats....Pages 68-76
Exercise-Induced Temperature Changes in the Tympanic Membrane and Skin of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury....Pages 77-83
Comparative Study on the Response of Cardiopulmonary Function Between the Spinal Cord Injured and the Normal Sedentary During Maximal Exercise and Rest....Pages 84-91
Circulatory Response During Isokinetic Training on Upper Extremity in Coronary Heart Disease Patients....Pages 92-96
Different Forms of Body Activity as Therapeutical Concepts in Osteopenia....Pages 97-102
A Computed Tomography Study of Skeletal Muscle in the Thigh in Hemiplegics....Pages 103-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Normal and Abnormal Development of Posture Control in Children....Pages 109-116
A Psychophysiological Approach to Physical Activity....Pages 117-122
Postural Sway Biofeedback Training in Congenitally Blind Children....Pages 123-130
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Motor Pattern During the Standing Long Jump in Individuals with Mental Retardation....Pages 131-136
Electromyographic Characteristics of the Learning Process of Walking in Normal Infants and Children....Pages 137-141
Postural Sway in Normal and Mentally Retarded Persons....Pages 142-146
Gaze Control in Children with High Versus Low Motor Proficiency....Pages 147-154
Why Do Lower Limb-Deficient People Have Difficulty in Downhill Walking?—Kinetics of Downhill Versus Level Walking....Pages 155-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
A Study of the Development Pattern of Physically Handicapped Students in Seoul....Pages 161-170
Effects of Aerobic Threshold Training on Aerobic Work Capacity in Hemiplegics....Pages 171-175
Endurance Training with an Adapted Device in the Visually Impaired....Pages 176-181
Aerobic Work Capacity of Quadriplegics and Exercise Intensity During the Twin-Basketball Game....Pages 182-186
Assessment of Cardiovascular Regulation to Lower Body Negative Pressure in Bedridden Disabled Patients....Pages 187-192
Cardiorespiratory Adaptations of Heart Transplant Patients During a Constant Work Load Exercise at the Ventilatory Threshold....Pages 193-200
Cardiorespiratory Function of Educable Mentally Retarded Boys....Pages 201-208
Adaptation in Students with Down Syndrome: An Experimental Study on the Trainability of Strength and Power....Pages 209-216
Decreasing Motor Ability in Adults with Down Syndrome....Pages 217-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Dynamic Balance Training by Balance Board for the Elderly....Pages 225-237
Ten-Year Longitudinal Evaluation of Physical Fitness in the Elderly....Pages 238-242
The Credo Project: Adapted Physical Activity for Autonomous Active and Sedentary Elderly....Pages 243-249
Osteoporosis Risk Prevalence Among Intellectually Disabled Women....Pages 250-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Adapted Physical Activity at the Dawn of the 21st Century....Pages 257-263
Back Matter....Pages 265-272

✦ Subjects

Rehabilitation; Sports Medicine