This research contributes to the scholarly fields of sport and health sociology and their parent discipline sociology by exploring the phenomenological experiences of three young men living in Sydney, Australia (aged 20-25). ...

Introduction: An acute bout of exercise increases glucose uptake into skeletal muscle, an effect that persists for several hours and which is insulin-independent. Contraction-stimulated skeletal muscle glucose uptake is ...

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 ...

Exercise-induced oxidative stress has been studied extensively; it can mediate fatigue as well as important adaptations to exercise. Little is known, however, on the modulating influences of exercise parameters (e.g. ...

The purpose of this project was to design and evaluate a sport-based life skills intervention designed for indigenous New Zealand (Māori) youth who may be exposed to drug or alcohol abuse. An indigenous research approach ...

This research investigated how meanings associated with race, gender, and class relations in New Zealand mainstream schools are produced, reproduced, and challenged within the arenas of school sport, physical education, ...

Individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) contend with a number of sensory and motor deficits as a consequence of their neurological impairment. Research on children with CP performing simple tasks of everyday living, such as ...

Introduction: Chronic hyperinsulinemia affects muscle, and may advantage speed and power athletes. Hyperinsulinaemia is associated with shifts in expression of myosin heavy chain isoforms, and muscle fibre type resulting ...

Conversion Disorder, originally hysteria, affects the voluntary motor system by disrupting the production of normal volitional movement and is characterised by unexplained neurological symptoms without an organic cause; ...

Background: Arterial and central venous blood pressures are reduced following exercise, which contributes to exercise being a key anti-hypertensive therapy and facilitates expansion of blood volume. However, the effects ...