Introdução: O objetivo desse estudo foi investigar o efeito da instrução para ativação consciente da musculatura abdominal sobre a atividade dos músculos escapulotorácicos durante exercícios de ombro. Métodos: Foram avaliados sessenta e cinco indivíduos assintomáticos do sexo feminino e masculino (média de idade de 23,5 ± 3 anos). Cinco exercícios enfocados no músculo serrátil anterior foram avaliados antes e depois do comando verbal e do estímulo táctil para ativação da musculatura abdominal. Foi utilizado o teste ANOVA para medidas repetitivas com teste Bonferroni post-hoc para comparar os valores eletromiográficos normalizados. Tamanhos de efeito com magnitudes moderadas e grandes foram considerados indicadores de significância em termos práticos. Resultados: Ativação consciente dos músculos abdominais resultou em um incremento significativo (p<,05) na atividade eletromiográfica dos músculos serrátil anterior e trapézio em suas fibras descendente, transversa e ascendente durante os exercícios dinâmicos (Wall Slide, Wall Press e Knee Push). A instrução aumentou a atividade eletromiográfica somente do músculo serrátil anterior durante os exercícios isométricos (Inferior Glide e Isometric Low Row). Conclusão: Ativação consciente dos músculos abdominais incentivada por comando verbal e estímulo tátil foi efetiva para incrementar a ativação dos músculos escapulotorácicos durante exercícios de ombro, principalmente para o músculo serrátil anterior com um tamanho de efeito de moderado a grande. / Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the instruction for conscious contraction of the abdominal muscles on the scapulothoracic muscles activation during shoulder exercises. Methods: Sixty healthy male and female subjects (mean age 23.5 ± 3 years) volunteered for this study. Five exercises focusing on the serratus anterior muscle were assessed before and after standardized verbal, and tactile feedback applied to encourage abdominal muscle contraction. Repeated measures ANOVA and Bonferroni post-hoc test were used to compare normalized EMG amplitudes. Moderate and large magnitudes of effect size were considered indicators of the practical significance of our findings. Results: Conscious contraction of the abdominal muscles resulted in significant increase (p<.05) in serratus anterior, upper, middle and lower trapezius EMG amplitude, during dynamic exercises (Wall Slide, Wall Press, and Knee Push). Instruction increased EMG amplitude only for serratus anterior muscle during isometric exercises (Inferior Glide and Isometric Low Row). Conclusion: Conscious activation of the abdominal muscles, encouraged by verbal and tactile feedback was effective to increase the activation of periscapular muscles during shoulder exercises, in particular, the serratus anterior with large and moderate magnitudes of effect size.

Orientador: Maria Inês Rubo de Souza Nobre Gomes / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T18:25:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Reis_CarolinaTrombeta_M.pdf: 2005779 bytes, checksum: 5619a4e23c9bce5add872e60cf278ac7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Classicamente, no Brasil, crianças com disfunções neurológicas severas vêm se submetendo a métodos de intervenção para a melhora do desenvolvimento global em ambientes clínicos controlados. Questiona-se, entretanto, se o tratamento clínico de maneira isolada traz ganhos significativos às habilidades da criança em seus diversos ambientes (casa, escola e comunidade). O Programa Mobility Opportunities Via Education (MOVE®) é uma abordagem de avaliação e tratamento funcional para crianças com disfunções severas. O objetivo deste estudo de caso foi compreender a percepção dos professores e monitores referente à utilização da abordagem do MOVE em uma escola de educação especial na cidade de Paulinia-SP. Foram aplicadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, que visaram qualificar a percepção dos profissionais sobre o MOVE na escola. Verificou-se que a aplicação do MOVE na instituição resultou em uma visão mais humanitária dos profissionais, enfatizou a importância do trabalho em equipe e da promoção do aprendizado motor em ambientes naturais, aumentou a expectativa dos profissionais em relação aos alunos e fez com que os profissionais percebessem mais motivação nas crianças. As principais dificuldades encontradas na adaptação do programa para a realidade brasileira, foram: a falta de tempo dos profissionais; número insuficiente de funcionários; falta de materiais e equipamentos e necessidade de orientações sistemáticas referentes à aplicação do MOVE / Abstract: Classically, in Brazil, children with Cerebral Palsy are still being submitted to methods of intervention to improve overall development in controlled clinical environments. However, it has been questioned if the isolated clinical treatment results in important gains in the child's performance in various environments (home, school, community). The Mobility Opportunities Via Education (MOVE®) program is a functional approach designed to assess and treat children with severe disabilities. The aim of this case study was to understand the perception of the teachers and assistants regarding the MOVE approach in a special education school in the city of Paulinia-SP. A semi-structured interview was conducted, in order to qualify the perception of the professionals about the MOVE program in the school. It was verified that the MOVE program resulted in a more human view from the professionals, enfatized the importance of team work and motor learning in natural environments, increased the expectations of the professionals regarding the students and made it possible for the professionals to notice more motivation in the children. The main difficulties found in the adaptation of the program to the brazilian reality, were: lack of time of the professionals, insufficient number of workers, lack of materials and equipment and the need of systematic orientations regarding the MOVE program / Mestrado / Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação / Mestre em Saúde, Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação

Name: The level of physical fitness and the detection of the motor skills level of primary school age children. Objectives: To find out the current level of physical fitness and basic motor skills of primary school age children. Methods: The main method of the research was an observation. The study included 54 children (8.9 ± 0.6 years old, 31 girls and 23 boys). For the evaluation of physical fitness, we used the Unifittest (6-60) and for the evaluation of motor skills was used the MABC-2 motor test. The Student's test and the Cohen's d effect size coefficient, were used for the evaluation of group differences. Results: In the MABC-2 motor skills test, 22 % of children achieved the result in a zone above the 84th percentile, 20 % of children were between 51-84th percentile, 50 % of children were in the range between 17-50th percentile, 4 % of children were between 6-15th percentile and another 4 % of children were in the range of <5 percentile. The results of the Unifittest test battery (6-60) showed us that 41 % of children were average, 20 % of children were below average, significantly below were 17 % of children, above average were 15 % of children and 7 % of children were well above average. Girls achieved significantly higher overall MABC-2 performance compared to boys (11.5 ± 2.7 vs 10.0 ±...

Title of diploma thesis: Testing physical assumptions of swimmers and modern pentathlonists Author: Bc. Dan Omcirk Supervisor of diploma thesis: PhDr. Babeta Chrzanowská Consultant of diploma thesis: PhDr. Pavel Hrásky, Ph.D. Objective: Target is to test the swimmers and modern pentagons in the age from 9 - 13 years. Furthermore to evaluate and tabulate the results. Compare the selected results in- between the groups and assess whether the training is affecting the level of certain motor assumptions, physical abilities and selected body parameters. Methodology: The research method of this work is comparison. The research group was composed by children from the SK Motorlet Praha (n = 13, mean age 11.5 ± 1.1 years) and children from the modern pentagon Dukla Praha (n = 10, mean age 10.5 ± 0.8 years). Tested objects were participated in motor-fitness tests - Cooper's test (running and swimming test 12 minutes), joint mobility test (shoulder, lumbar spine and hip segment), lower limb dynamics test, absolute upper limb strength, postural stability and body composition test. The measured results were evaluated and compared. The final results should be used as an recommendations for practice use. Results: The results of the group comparisons are presented in the practical part of this work, including the...

Title: The Use of Therasuit method on individuals with cerebral palsy Objectives: The main objective of the work is to observe a 4-week rehabilitation program according to the Therasuit method. Determine whether there will be changes in the area of gross motor skills and primitive reflexes, and to describe the individual course of the rehabilitation process in individual probands. Another objective is an evaluation of the therapeutic effect on the child's physical activities from the parents point of view. Methods: It is a mixed research method which contains an empirical-theoretical form of case sudies of 3 probands.The study included 2 boys and 1 girl aged 3, 4 and 7 years with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy, while in the first proband it occurs in the form of spastic diparesis, in the second one in the form of spastic hemiparesis, and in the third one in the form of spastic triparesis. The data collection methods used include input and output kinesiological analysis, qualitative observation of the rehabilitation process and a qualitative interview with a legal representative focused on the child's physical activities prior to and after rehabilitation. Results: We found that after 4-week rehabilitation according to the Therasuit method, all 3 probands improved their gross motor skills. In all 3...

Title: Effect of hyperbaric environment on fine motor skills Objectives: The aim of study is to assess the changes fine motor skills due to hyperbaric environment in preparation for selected tests of fine motor skills. Methods: The first method was used empirically - research. Then the method chosen of compilation of the information obtained. The basic method to work was the experimental measurement method specially constructed tests on fine motor skills. All measured values were statistically processed as follows. Results: The results were formulated as a percentage, graphs and tables. Recording was carried out by recording the time data. Their percentage of the overall approach to the exercise time mastering fine motor skills in different environments. All results obtained were processed and evaluated. Keywords: depth intoxication, fine motor skills, hyperbaric environment, hyperbaric chambers, diving

Title: The relationship between physical fitness and level of physical activity in older school age childres. Objectives: The aim of this work is to evaluate the effect of physical activity on physical fitness and somatotype. To determine the level of physical fitness of older school-age children at Davle school using the diagnostic system Unifittest (6-60). Further determine physical activity using a pedometer and a questionnaire during a one week evaluation. To find out the relationship between movement mode and somatoype which was determined by the method Heath - Carter. Methods:. The main scientific theoretical - empirical method is the method of testing and observation. The research involved 57 children aged 12 to 14 years in the second grade of Davle school. Testing was performed during physical education classes. To determine physical fitness, the subjects underwent four parts of the Unifittest (6-60) and anthropometric tests to determine the somatotype according to the Heath-Carter method. Using a pedometer and then filling out a questionnaire, the testers wrote down their physical activity during one week and the physical activity performed at medium - high intensity. The object of the research employed basic descriptive statistics, correlation analyzes and the Shapiro-Wilk test to analyze...

The paper aims to examine how the specific conditions in forest kindergartens may affect motor development of young children and to identify other daily life factors that may have an impact on motor development. A test of motor skills was used to compare results of children from forest schools and regular kindergartens. The work is based on theoretical knowledge about children's motor development, motor skills and abilities and various ways to test them. A set of motor tests was compiled to measure the level of motor skills in both types of kindergartens. The theoretical part provides the reader with characteristics of both types of schools to show how the conditions may vary and assess the differences. The comparison of the results of the tests shows that natural conditions for physical activities in forest kindergartens do not lead to better results in motor skills tests. The parents of participating children were given a questionnaire and the provided answers were then compared with the children's performance in the tests. This method proved that neither time actively spent with parents nor exercising in extracurricular activities have a significant effect on the motor level development of children. Key words Forest kindergarten, regular kindergarten, motor development, motor skills and abilities

Title: Comparison of balance of abilities of artistic gymnasts and TeamGym gymnasts Objectives: The aim of this work is to describe the relationship between selected factors and performance in selected balance tests of groups of artistic gymnasts and TeamGym gymnasts and at the same time to verify the effect of the balance beam exercise on the balance ability of TeamGym gymnasts. Methods: Field tests were chosen for data acquisition: stand on dominant and non- dominant limb with closed and open eyes, walking back on balance beam and bench, jumps to balance position (track). Furthermore, a questionnaire survey was used. The obtained data were evaluated by means of Wilcoxon tests for two dependent and independent samples, correlation analysis, materiality investigation for non-parametric data and means of descriptive statistics. The data were also examined in terms of the percentages of the achieved maxima. The intervention method was chosen to verify the influence of the exercises on the balance beams. Results: The relationship of the direct proportion between age and performance in walking back on bench and track test was confirmed, and between height and performance in stand-up tests and track run were confirmed. In addition, a better level of balance skills in artistic gymnasts was demonstrated...

Title: Evaluation of fundamental motor skills, specific game skills and motor abilities in young football players Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to describe the developement of specific game skills, fundamental motor skills and agility in young football players (12- 14 years) between two measurements in the course of less than two years. The next aim is to verify the correlation between fundamental motor skills and specific game skills. Methods: The main research method of this thesis was the observation method. For the practical part of the thesis the longitudinal quantitative research with empirical elements was used. The followed group was consisted of young football players in U14 age category from FC Tempo Praha (n=12). The group was repeatedly measured during the next twenty months. The level of fundamental motor skills was examinated by TGMD-2 (Test of Gross Motor Development) and the level of specific football skills was examinated by the test of leading the ball. The level of agility was examinated by the test of agility. Results: In the first measurement of TGMD-2 83,3 % of probands achieved average or below average level. In the next measurement of TGMD-2 91,3 % of probands achieved average or below average level. There was also determinated a statistically significiant...