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Effects of an Eight Week Maximal Jumping Intervention on Bone Characteristics in College-Aged Females
(2019-08-01)
Peak bone mass occurs between the second and third decade, around a person’s late twenties and is followed by a plateau in bone mineral density (BMD). Osteoporosis can be a result from a failure to achieve peak bone mass ...
RESTING MECHANOMYOGRAPHY BEFORE AND AFTER AN ACUTE BOUT OF SINGLE LEG RESISTANCE EXERCISE
(2016)
ABSTRACT
RESTING MECHANOMYOGRAPHY BEFORE AND AFTER AN ACUTE BOUT OF SINGLE LEG RESISTANCE TRAINING
Cody Miller
University of Oklahoma
Supervising Professor: Dr. Travis Beck
Mechanomyography (MMG) is the recording ...
Comparison of Bone, Muscle, and Fat Characteristics Between Combined Oral Contraceptive Users and Non-Users
(2019-08-01)
Combined oral contraceptives (COC) are widely used as a form of birth control or to reduce negative symptoms associated with menstruation. However, many women discontinue use or fail to initiate use of COC because of the ...
The Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Isometric Exercise on Pain Perception Prior to and Following an Acute Bout of Exercise
(2018-05-11)
Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience. The experience of acute or chronic pain has produced adverse societal implications. The use of exercise and TENS have been established for their ability to ...
USING THE INTEGRATIVE MODEL TO PREDICT VEGETABLE SUBGROUP CONSUMPTION AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
(2016)
Although eating the recommended amount of vegetables is associated with many health benefits, vegetable consumption is low among college students in the United States. “Vegetable consumption” is a behavioral category, ...
Understanding Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Influences for Smoking in Multiunit Housing
(2018-08)
This study explored some underlying reasons to why some smokers choose to smoke indoors as well as some of the factors that contributed to this decision. In addition, this study looked at what smokers know about environmental ...
The Effects of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage in Trained Females Following Repeated Sprint Activity
(2018-08)
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the use of a sprinting protocol to consistently generate exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD) using an active female population, and to observe how jumping metrics and ...
Physiological Responses to a Single Bout of Resistance Exercise Between Men and Women
(2018-05-11)
It has been shown that blood flow restriction (BFR) exercise provides similar physiological muscular adaptations to traditional high intensity resistance exercise; however, there is still ambiguity about whether males and ...
UTILIZING A SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH FRAMEWORK TO ELICIT AFRICAN AMERICAN’S PERCEIVED CONTROL BELIEFS ABOUT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2018-08-02)
African Americans’ Perceived Behavior Control (PBC) beliefs about physical activity were evaluated utilizing the Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) framework. Thirty one-on-one semi-structured ...
THE EFFECTS OF MUSCLE LENGTH ON FORCE STEADINESS AND EMG RESPONSES FOLLOWING A FATIGUING PROTOCOL
(2017-05-12)
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of muscle length on force steadiness and EMG responses following a fatiguing intervention. Twenty-three subjects, fifteen men and eight women, were required to perform ...