The meaning of adapted ice-skating for children and youths with disabilities.

Purpose: Children and youths with disabilities have low levels of physical activity and limited opportunities to participate in physical activity. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences and meaning of an adapted ice-skating approach with access to a tailored harness system as a physical activity for children and youths with disabilities in Sweden.

Materials And Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 guardians, 5 ice-skating trainers and 15 ice-skating children and youths with disabilities.

Theorizing bodily dialogs - reflection on knowledge production in phenomenological research.

Background: Every aspect of research engages the body in some way.

Purpose: In this article the researchers discuss the epistemological challenges of engaging with lived experiences and the opportunities and challenges that arise in conjunction with the embodied aspects of interviewing, analysis and turning visual and oral research material into written text.

Method: The authors draw on experience from interviewing and reflect on how phenomenological philosophy of the body can both challenge and contribute to unpacking the role of the body in research processes.

Anxiety management: Participants' experiences of a physiotherapeutic group treatment in Swedish psychiatric outpatient care.

Anxiety disorders are among the most persistent mental health syndromes. There is extensive research showing effectiveness of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy interventions targeting anxiety, while knowledge is still sparse for other treatment options. The aim of this study was to explore how participants with anxiety disorders experience a physiotherapeutic group treatment in psychiatric outpatient care, and their perceived ability to manage anxiety within two months after participating in the treatment.

Broad variability in pharmacokinetics of GH following rhGH injections in children.

Objective: Daily subcutaneous self-injection of GH is used worldwide to treat short stature in childhood; longitudinal data on the impact of this regimen on GH-uptake are lacking.

Design: Children with/without GH-deficiency participating in clinical trials were followed prospectively (≤8 times). Blood was sampled pre-GH-injection (dose GH/GH μg/kg) and either every 30 min thereafter for 24 h (Experimental-setting; 59 GH-curves/15 children); or every 2 h thereafter for 16 h (Clinical-setting; 429 GH-curves/117 children).

Modelling individual longitudinal human growth from fetal to adult life - QEPS I.

Background: Only one mathematical model to date describes human growth and its different phases from fetal life until adult height.

Aim: To develop a model describing growth from fetal life to adult height taking maturation/biological tempo into consideration.

Subjects: The model was developed based on longitudinal mean height values obtained from published growth references for a cohort of 3650 healthy Swedish children followed from birth circa 1974 until adult height combined with birth-length for circa 400 000 healthy infants born 1990-1995.