Publications by authors named "Siupsinskas L"

Article Synopsis
  • The study investigates the quality of functional movements and back squat performance in professional and amateur bodybuilders, emphasizing the importance of assessing movement quality to identify dysfunctions and asymmetries.* -
  • Using the Functional Movement Screen™, the research involves 26 participants (11 professionals and 15 amateurs) and applies various statistical tests to analyze the data, looking for correlations between overall movement quality and squat performance.* -
  • Results show that professional bodybuilders scored significantly higher on both the Functional Movement Screen™ and back squat assessments compared to amateurs, indicating that greater experience in bodybuilding is associated with better movement quality.*
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Background: To avoid injuries in basketball players, they are recommended to pay more attention to improve their body balance. Therefore new training methods and equipment need to be devised. This study examined the effects of an 8-week basketball-specific proprioception training program while using a new developed one plane instability balance board during warm-up for improving balance ability in basketball players.

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Pelvic floor muscles (PFMs) play a crucial role in urinary continence. Therefore, training the PFMs remains the most popular conservative treatment for urinary incontinence (UI). The effect of training other body muscles on the PFMs is unclear and mostly hypothetical.

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Purpose: To translate, cross-culturally adapt and validate the scale to Lithuanian.

Methods: The process of translation and cultural adaptation followed the recommendations of international guidelines. All included patients were after unilateral ACL reconstruction.

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Basketball is one of the most popular sports in Lithuania, and participation in women's basketball is on the rise. Pre-participation examinations, including musculoskeletal screening and functional performance testing, is an essential part of a multidisciplinary approach to prevent future injuries. Because the lower extremities are the most commonly-injured body area in basketball players.

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The participation of women in sports, including basketball, is becoming increasingly common, and this increased involvement raises concerns about the potential risk of sports injuries, but there is a lack of epidemiological studies about the incidence of sports injuries in women's basketball, especially in Europe. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and localizations of sport related injuries and illnesses in elite female basketball players. This was a retrospective study.

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Purpose: To assess the weekly fluctuations in workload and differences in workload according to playing time in elite female basketball.

Methods: Twenty-nine female basketball players (mean ± standard deviation, age: 21±5yr; stature: 181±7cm; body mass: 71±7kg; and playing experience: 12±5yr) belonging to the 7 female basketball teams competing in the first division Lithuanian Women's Basketball League (LMKL) were recruited. Individualized training loads (TL) and game loads (GL) were assessed using the session-RPE following each training session and game during the entire in-season phase (24 weeks).

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: the main goal of the study was to investigate the prevalence of the articular cartilage defects (ACD) in the patellofemoral (PF) region of the knee joint based on the anatomical shapes of patella and its impact on the level of physical activity in the population needing arthroscopic procedures for all types of pathologies in the knee. : The articular cartilage status of the PF region was obtained from 1098 arthroscopic procedures of the knee joint. The ACD were correlated to Wiberg's shape of the patella and classified according to the degree, size and depth of the ACD in the PF region using the ICRS (International Cartilage Repair Society) system: group I consisting of patients with Wiberg type I shape (W1), group II-patients with Wiberg type II shape (W2) and group III-patients with Wiberg type III shape (W3).

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Aims: To evaluate the dynamics of pelvic floor muscle strength, endurance, and urinary incontinence in a 6-month period in men after radical prostatectomy and to determine correlations between pelvic floor muscle strength, endurance, and urinary incontinence.

Methods: Forty-two men with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy participated in the study. Pelvic floor muscles parameters were evaluated using the anal perineometer.

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The paper presents the development results of teleconsultative cardiology systems and their application in rehabilitation and sport medicine. The first teleconsultative cardiology (TELECARD) system was developed for outpatient departments in the city of Kaunas, using Internet links. It was based on the CompCardioSignal terminal.

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