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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Skeletal injuries"”.
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Injury risk assessment and the incidence of musculo-skeletal injuries in recreational long-distance runners over a 3-month training period
… Previous research has focussed on specific injuries, whereas others have investigated isolated risk factors that may contribute to running related injuries. The purpose of the study is to determine possible internal and external screening variables that may predict the incidence of …
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Inappropriate posture: device to regain awareness on postures and prevent trauma case study: how can young adults’ posture be monitored discreetly by sensing and movement assistive technology
Muscular-skeletal injuries are not only lowering people’s quality of life, but also creating a massive monetary loss in the society. A considerable number of them result from fixation to incorrect postures and inappropriate forms when doing activities. Unbalanced muscles are challenging bodies to …
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Design, construction and testing of an innovative mechanism for manual wheelchair propulsion
… and upper-arm complex, and should reduce muscle (skeletal) injuries. A prototype of the innovative mechanism was built and retrofitted onto a standard manual wheelchair, and a portable wheelchair testing station was designed and fabricated to allow for human testing comparative measurements …
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A forensic anthropological investigation of skeletal remains recovered from a 1000 year old archaeological site in North Western Namibia
Human and faunal skeletal remains were found scattered around the base of a talus cone at the bottom of a 30 metre sinkhole at Khoraxa-ams northwest of the Central Namib Desert. Subsequent dating of the site indicated that the remains had been deposited in the cavern in the order of a thousand …
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Dietary calcium and cation-anion difference influences calcium status and bone remodeling in exercising and sedentary Arabian horses
… wk of stall confinement may predispose horses to skeletal injuries when training is resumed.
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What makes war? Assessing Iron Age warfare through mortuary behaviour and osteological patterns of violence.
… of war and as ritual symbolic devices. Human skeletal remains provide the most unequivocal evidence for violent encounters, but were often missing from these debates in the past. This thesis addresses this lack of treatment by analyzing the patterns of traumatic injuries at sites from two …