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Prevalence of knee OA in former athletes was 30.0% (95% CI 20.0 to 40.0%).
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Low-quality evidence suggests that this is likely to change with high-quality studies.
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Diagnostic criteria for knee OA and sport modality may impact on estimated prevalence.
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Inspiratory loaded breathing (ILB) modifies chest wall volumes in patients with heart failure (HF).
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ILB associated with diaphragmatic breathing (ILBdi) increases abdominal volume in these patients.
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Chest wall tidal volume and breathing pattern variables are similar between ILB and ILBdi.
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Lower limb and trunk muscle strength are associated with comfortable/maximum gait speed in patients with sub-acute stroke.
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Non-paretic dorsiflexors and left trunk lateral flexors predict comfortable/maximum gait speed in sub-acute stroke.
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The effects of strengthening in these muscles on post-stroke gait speed need more investigation.
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Children at rDCD use feedback to improve their ability to fine-tune.
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Children at rDCD are more dependent of the visual feedback than TD children.
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Children at rDCD are more variable than TD children on fine-tune after practice.
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Boys develop more pronounced isometric muscular strength starting at 10 years of age and it peaks at 14 and 15 years.
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The Handheld dynamometer has excellent inter-rater reliability and an intra-rater agreement for all muscle groups tested.
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The development of muscle strength for the Brazilian population is similar to that observed in the northern hemisphere.
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Physical therapist's perception regarding therapeutic patient-centred relationship.
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Improve understanding patients’ contextual factors and features of physical space.
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Patient-centred relationship depends on professional, patient's attitudes and context.
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Children with cerebral palsy have variable degrees of respiratory muscle weakness.
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IMT improves respiratory muscle strength, trunk control and exercise capacity in these children.
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IMT also improves daily living activities and quality of life.
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Eccentric training strengthens the quadriceps muscle.
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Eccentric training increases muscle thickness and fascicle length.
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NMES do not change adaptations to eccentric training in healthy subjects.
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Progression through the difficulty levels of Pilates exercises is empirically guided by the therapist.
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It is important to identify which factors may slow or improve this progression.
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Factors such as pain and disability do not slow the progression of exercise.
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Previous physical activity, educational level, age and number of absences slow the progression.
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Therapists should use this information when progressing exercises.
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Individuals in the short and typical resting PMm length groups had similar amounts of PMm elongation during active and passive lengthening procedures.
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These groups also had similar amounts of PMm length change, and scapulothoracic motion during overhead arm motions.
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These results support the need for further research to better understand how resting PMm length influences PMm elongation and scapulothoracic motion.
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Findings from this study should not be applied to individuals with shoulder pain as the study participants were free from shoulder pain at the time of the study.