Validity and reliability of a low-cost dynamometer to assess maximal isometric strength of upper limb     

Natalia Romero-Franco  Juan C Fernández-Domínguez  Juan A Montaño-Munuera  Javier Romero-Franco  Pedro Jiménez-Reyes 《Journal of sports sciences》2019,37(15):1787-1793

Muscle imbalance and deficit are key parameters for guiding rehabilitation and sports sessions and avoiding injuries. However, the high cost and non-portable nature of most instruments employed for muscle strength assessment frequently hamper an affordable evaluation in field conditions. This study evaluated the validity and reliability of a low-cost digital dynamometer to assess the maximal isometric strength of upper limb muscles. Fourteen physically active volunteers performed the main movements of the upper limb at maximal isometric strength: flexion-extension, internal-external rotation and abduction-adduction of the shoulder; and flexion-extension of both elbow and wrist. Validity was examined by comparing the strength values from the low-cost digital dynamometer and those measured by an isokinetic dynamometer, assumed as the gold standard. The correlation between both devices was perfect (r > 0.913), while Bland-Altman plots showed absolute agreement between both devices, the maximum range of the values of bias was ?0.99–1.00 N in wrist extension. Inter-tester and intra-tester reliability were excellent for all movements (ICC ≥ 0.855). The low-cost digital dynamometer showed strong validity and excellent reliability in assessing maximal isometric strength during the main movements of the upper limb. Professionals may use it for an affordable isometric muscle strength assessment in field situations.  相似文献   

St. Francis of America: How a Thirteenth‐Century Friar Became America's Most Popular Saint Patricia Appelbaum. University of North Carolina Press, 2015.          下载免费PDF全文

Jim Charles 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2017,40(2):194-195

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Sports’ disciplinary legacy and the challenge of ‘coaching differently’     

Jim Denison  Joseph P. Mills  Timothy Konoval 《Sport, Education and Society》2017,22(6):772-783

Be empowering. Be athlete-centered. Be autonomy supportive. These are three related topics currently being promoted by sport psychologists and sport pedagogists in an effort to recognize athletes’ unique qualities and developmental differences and make coaching more holistic and coaches more considerate. This has led us to ask, how likely are such initiatives to lead to coaches putting their athletes at the center of the coaching process given that coaches’ practices have largely been formed through relations of power that subordinate and objectify athletes’ bodies through the regular application of a range of disciplinary techniques and instruments [e.g. Barker-Ruchti, N., &; Tinning, R. (2010). Foucault in leotards: Corporeal discipline in women's artistic gymnastics. Sociology of Sport Journal, 27, 229–250; Heikkala, J. (1993). Discipline and excel: Techniques of the self and body and the logic of competing. Sociology of Sport Journal, 10, 397–412; Gearity, B., &; Mills, J. P. (2012). Discipline and punish in the weight room. Sports Coaching Review, 1, 124–134]? In other words, to try to develop athlete-centered coaches capable of coaching in ways that will empower their athletes without also problematizing the discursive formation of coaches’ practices concerns us [Denison, J., &; Mills, J. P. (2014). Planning for distance running: Coaching with Foucault. Sports Coaching Review, 3, 1–16]. Put differently: how can athlete empowerment initiatives be anything more than rhetoric within a disciplinary framework that normalizes maximum coach control? It is this question that we intend to explore in this paper. More specifically, as Foucauldians, we will argue that coaching with greater consideration for athletes’ unique qualities and developmental differences needs to entail coaching in a less disciplinary way and with an awareness and appreciation of the many unseen effects that disciplinary power can have on coaches’ practices and athletes’ bodies.  相似文献   

Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America by Bert Hansen     

Jim Welsh 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2009,32(4):354-354

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The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election by Don Balz and Haynes Johnson     

Jim Welsh 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2009,32(4):357-359

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TV and radio reviews     

Jim Miles 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》1953,1(4):286-290

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Book review     

Madzniyah Jaafar  Jim Rice 《Educational Action Research》2013,21(4):645-650

The following books are reviewed.

Value and validity in action research: a guidebook for reflective practitioners EILEEN M. SCHWALBACH (2003) London: Scarecrow Press 121 pp., ISBN 1 57886 017 2 (pb), £10.22

Supporting Teachers, Supporting Pupils D.F. WILSON, 2004 London: RoutledgeFalmer 184 pp., ISBN 0 415 33522 1 (hb), £65, 0 415 33523 X (pb), £22.50  相似文献   

Squaring the circle?: government reform of initial teacher training for primary education     

Jim Campbell  Viv Little  John Tomlinson 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(4):369-378

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Food Science Education Publications and Websites     

Jim Bird 《Journal of Food Science Education》2010,9(1):2-3

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Food Science Education Publications and Websites     

Jim Bird 《Journal of Food Science Education》2010,9(2):39-40

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