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Możliwość zastosowania muzyki i wibracji w celu poprawy koordynacyjnych zdolności motorycznych dzieci z uszkodzonym słuchem. raport z badań wstępnych / Possibilities of application of music and vibrations for improving motor coordination abilities in children with impaired hearing – pilot experiment report

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Borowiec J.

2011

vol. 19

issue 2

28-42

Showing the possibility of physical exercises performed to the music with enhanced high frequencies and vibration devices enabling “bone hearing”, in the process of stimulating development at the level of coordination abilities of children with hearing disability. This paper is report of a pilot study. Twenty five children with hearing impairment aged 10 to 13 years participated in the experiment. The subjects were randomly assigned to experimental (E) and control (C) group. The control group attended traditional dancing classes using their every day hearing aids. Audiva High Pitch Training System was used in the classes of Group E. The system consists of headphones connected with a vibration transmitter, which enables the subject to experience “bone hearing”. The device used in the experiment strengthens high frequency tones in music, most of which are not audible to people with hearing disability. Classes were held once a week in Poznan Educational Centre for Deaf Children. The evaluation of the coordination abilities’ level was conducted twice - before and after the dancing classes. The level of coordination was assessed using the Kiphard Schilling Test of Coordination (KSTC). Mann-Whitney’s U Test and Wilcoxon’s Test were used to assess changes in coordination capacity.Preliminary analysis of research data indicates that both groups improved performance in final examinations as compared to the initial ones. Individuals in the experimental group achieved slightly better results in the final tests in comparison to the control group.The use of exercises performed to the music with enhanced high pitch tones and the vibrations showed a positive impact on the level of coordination abilities of the deaf. This positive trend needs to be checked on a larger research population, selected deliberately in terms of etiology and type of hearing disability

Physical activity of female children and adolescents based on step counts: meeting the recommendation and relation to BMI

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Kantanista A., Król-Zielińska M., Borowiec J., Glapa A., Lisowski P., Bronikowski M.

Biomedical Human Kinetics

2015

vol. 7

issue 1

Study aim: the aim of this study was to assess the step counts of children and adolescents with different BMIs and to present the results in relation to the step count recommendation. Material and methods: the study included data from 175 girls, aged 12–18 (45 participants from primary school, 69 participants from junior high school and 61 participants from high school). Voluntary participants were recruited from public schools in Poland. Step counts were measured using pedometers (Yamax Digi-Walker SW 701) over seven consecutive days. Results: the recommended level of 12000 steps per day was achieved by only 14.9% of participants. The step counts performed by girls, especially at the primary school age, are currently insufficient. Participants’ achievement of the recommended step count level correlated with a lower BMI. Conclusions: few female children and adolescents are meeting daily step recommendations, which highlights the importance of school and community-based programmes designed to increase daily activity patterns.

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Physical activity of female children and adolescents based on step counts: meeting the recommendation and relation to BMI