Background: Innominate kinematic anomalies resulting in non-specific low back pain (LBP) of sacroiliac joints (SIJ) origin have been well recognized in the literature. While the complex anatomical orientation and position ...

Background: In New Zealand, prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and the third most common cause of male cancer deaths. Better detection, diagnosis, and treatment have improved the five-year prostate ...

Low back pain is a highly disabling musculoskeletal condition that often does not have a specific diagnosis. Low back pain has a high incidence rate in athletes who participate in sports that involve repetitive rotation ...

Advances in breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and increased public awareness have contributed to increased survival rates over the last 10 years (Soeberg, Blakely, Sarfat, Tobias, Costilla, Carter & Atkinson, 2012). More ...

The United States territory of American Samoa produces more National Football League (NFL) gridiron players per capita than any other place in the world, and it is estimated that a young boy born to Samoan parents is as ...

Due to better detection and treatment, five-year breast cancer survival rates have improved; however, more women are likely to die of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than their cancer. Physical activity (PA) is an effective ...

As a result of globalisation, the cross-cultural movement of people, product, and process has dramatically increased over the past few decades. For example, in 2010 there were 325 New Zealand rugby players plying their ...

Despite the fact that sport and leisure, as part of the new migratory flow based on lifestyle, has increasingly been of concern to scholars, there has been little empirical research examining the phenomena. Drawing upon ...

A global diffusion of interest in martial arts and combat sports has increased the profile of combative physical cultures (CPC) in Western society. As a result, Asian physical cultural practices are becoming increasingly ...

This study examines the role of folk dance in constructing national identity in Greece. It illustrates the contribution of folk dance in shaping ethnic identity in the independence movement in early 19th century Greece and ...