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Longitudinal and cross-sectional associations between physical activity, screen time, and fitness in a sample of young children from Edmonton, Canada
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Background: High fitness is associated with several positive health outcomes; however, fitness of Canadian children has declined over the past two decades. Correlates of fitness in children under 10 years of age are relatively unexplored, and few studies involving young children have looked at...
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Magic and Madness: An Autoethnographic Creative Nonfiction Arts-based Research Project Exploring the Makings of Mad Home Within and Outside of Dance Spaces
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The following thesis is an artistic exploration interested in discovering how Mad Home (Eales, 2018) can be crafted within dance spaces. In doing so, I discovered how my experiences with madness have infiltrated, inhabited, and influenced my experiences within normative dance spaces and beyond....
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Spring 2018
Background: Stroke is a leading cause of adult disability globally. In Canada, about 405,000 individuals are living with the effects of stroke and this number is projected to rise by over 60% in the next two decades. People with stroke are often physically inactive and sedentary which may...
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2014-01-01
As is apparent from the ‘we’ in the title and the long list of editors, The Winter We Danced is as much a collective of voices as it is a collection of authors. The ‘we’ assembled here all share a connection to the Idle No More (INM) movement. This movement began in November 2012 as an Aboriginal...
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Fall 2015
In 2013, a research effort at the University of Alberta combined various health-related questionnaires to form the Student Life Activity Questionnaire (SLAQ) to evaluate student health behaviour, patterns, and associations. An area for inquiry became evident when the analysis of the physical...
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Physical Activity in Association with Prognostic Determinants Across Heart Failure Continuum
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Heart Failure (HF) is a complex syndrome that greatly contributes to declining physical function in older adults and causes a substantial economic burden for health care systems. Older adults at risk of developing HF typically have other comorbidities. In addition, patients with HF often...
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Physical Activity in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Generalized Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder
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Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Generalized Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (hEDS/G-HSD) are two connective tissue disorders that are tightly intertwined as they both result in joint hypermobility-induced musculoskeletal manifestations and are placed on the same clinical spectrum. The...
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Physical activity/exercise and diabetes: a position statement of the American Diabetes Association
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Sheri R. Colberg, Ronald J. Sigal, Jane E. Yardley, Michael C. Riddell, David W. Dunstan, Paddy C. Dempsey, Edward S. Horton, Kristin Castorino, Deborah F. Tate
The adoption and maintenance of physical activity are critical foci for blood glucose management and overall health in individuals with diabetes and prediabetes. Recommendations and precautions vary depending on individual characteristics and health status. In this Position Statement, we provide...
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Retrospection and recollection of influences of physical activity and sport on the development of substance addiction among people in recovery from substance addiction
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The development of substance addiction in the context of physical activity (PA) and sport is an issue about which little is known. Investigating through the first hand experience of people dealing with substance addiction provided some insight into the role of PA and sport, and the possible...