Identifying yoga-based knee strengthening exercises using the knee adduction moment.

Background: This study aimed to compare muscle activations, co-contraction indices, and the knee adduction moment between static standing yoga postures to identify appropriate exercises for knee osteoarthritis.

Methods: Healthy young women (24.4 (5.

Muscle activation and knee biomechanics during squatting and lunging after lower extremity fatigue in healthy young women.

Muscle activations and knee joint loads were compared during squatting and lunging before and after lower extremity neuromuscular fatigue. Electromyographic activations of the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis and biceps femoris, and the external knee adduction and flexion moments were collected on 25 healthy women (mean age 23.5 years, BMI of 23.

Biomechanical changes at the knee after lower limb fatigue in healthy young women.

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify changes in knee kinematics, kinetics and stiffness that occur during gait due to lower limb neuromuscular fatigue.

Methods: Kinematic, kinetic and electromyographic measures of gait were collected on healthy, young women (n=20) before and after two bouts of fatigue. After baseline gait analysis, two bouts of fatiguing contractions were completed.

Training health professionals and lay volunteers to deliver cholesterol screening and education programs.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health launched the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) in 1985. With the goal of reducing the prevalence of elevated blood cholesterol in the United States, the NCEP aims to raise awareness and understanding in both health professionals and the general public of high blood cholesterol levels as a risk factor for coronary heart disease. Public interest in blood cholesterol measurement has created an enormous market for cholesterol screening and education programs.

Organizational and community approaches to community-wide prevention of heart disease: the first two years of the Pawtucket Heart Health Program.

The Pawtucket Heart Health program (PHHP) is a federally funded research and demonstration project for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in a community. This article presents a discussion of the first 26 months of this intervention, divided into its three phases. PHHP staff initially approached the intervention city through local organizations to accomplish risk-factor behavior change in the population.