Adapted Physical Activity: Health and Fitness

by Kyonosuke Yabe, Katsuhiko Kusano, Hideo Nakata

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784431682745
Publisher:	Springer Japan
Publication date:	03/08/2013
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Sports for the Disabled.- Sports for People with Handicaps.- I Teaching Methods for Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation.- -Keynote Speech-.- Adapted Physical Activity Pedagogy: Principles, Practices, and Creativity.- -Keynote Speech-.- Adapted Physical Education Programs for Mentally Retarded Children.- -Keynote Speech-.- Legislative Influences on Adapted Physical Activity and Sports in the USA.- Sources of Enjoyment and Sources of Stress Among Sports Participants with Visual Disabilities.- Effects of Physical Education Programs on Children with Learning Disabilities.- Sports for the Disabled in Slovenia—New Directions: Institutionalized Physically Disabled Youth in Slovenia and Their Preferences in Active and Passive Sports Participation.- Physical Disability: The Brazilian Society Creates, “Rehabilitates”, and Stigmatizes.- II Medical Aspects and Rehabilitation.- -Tutorial Lecture-.- The Handicapped as Depicted in the Art of Japan.- Study of the Longitudinal Evaluation of Physical Activity and Sports in Cardiac Transplant Recipients.- Development of Pressure Sores in Active and Inactive Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.- Effects of Feeding Levels and Body Weight Loading on Muscle Size and Visceral Organ Sizes in Rats.- Exercise-Induced Temperature Changes in the Tympanic Membrane and Skin of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury.- Comparative Study on the Response of Cardiopulmonary Function Between the Spinal Cord Injured and the Normal Sedentary During Maximal Exercise and Rest.- Circulatory Response During Isokinetic Training on Upper Extremity in Coronary Heart Disease Patients.- Different Forms of Body Activity as Therapeutical Concepts in Osteopenia.- A Computed Tomography Study of Skeletal Muscle in the Thigh in Hemiplegics.- III Motor Control.- -Keynote Speech-.- Normal and Abnormal Development of Posture Control in Children.- -Tutorial Lecture-.- A Psychophysiological Approach to Physical Activity.- Postural Sway Biofeedback Training in Congenitally Blind Children.- Motor Pattern During the Standing Long Jump in Individuals with Mental Retardation.- Electromyographic Characteristics of the Learning Process of Walking in Normal Infants and Children.- Postural Sway in Normal and Mentally Retarded Persons.- Gaze Control in Children with High Versus Low Motor Proficiency.- Why Do Lower Limb-Deficient People Have Difficulty in Downhill Walking?—Kinetics of Downhill Versus Level Walking.- IV Health and Physical Fitness.- A Study of the Development Pattern of Physically Handicapped Students in Seoul.- Effects of Aerobic Threshold Training on Aerobic Work Capacity in Hemiplegics.- Endurance Training with an Adapted Device in the Visually Impaired.- Aerobic Work Capacity of Quadriplegics and Exercise Intensity During the Twin-Basketball Game.- Assessment of Cardiovascular Regulation to Lower Body Negative Pressure in Bedridden Disabled Patients.- Cardiorespiratory Adaptations of Heart Transplant Patients During a Constant Work Load Exercise at the Ventilatory Threshold.- Cardiorespiratory Function of Educable Mentally Retarded Boys.- Adaptation in Students with Down Syndrome: An Experimental Study on the Trainability of Strength and Power.- Decreasing Motor Ability in Adults with Down Syndrome.- V Physical Activity for the Elderly.- Dynamic Balance Training by Balance Board for the Elderly.- Ten-Year Longitudinal Evaluation of Physical Fitness in the Elderly.- The Credo Project: Adapted Physical Activity for Autonomous Active and Sedentary Elderly.- Osteoporosis Risk Prevalence Among Intellectually Disabled Women.- VI Future Trends in APA.- Adapted Physical Activity at the Dawn of the 21st Century.