The main aim of the research is to determine the frequency, severity, structure, and possible differences of spinal disorders among the girls from urban and rural areas in Montenegro. Research of transversal character included 155 female respondents, 77 of whom were from urban and 78 from rural areas, the average age 13.7 years. The analysis of scoliotic disorders was performed by using several combined techniques and methods of measurement: somatoscopy method, method by using plumb line and ruler, test of raising hand on the concave side of the body, Adams test, test of "voluntary" muscle contraction and higher position test (
The development of sports medicine and rehabilitation with the great involvement of techniques and modern technology have increased the needs and possibilities for quick diagnosis and more adequate treatment. Regular companions of sports activities are sport injuries of various parts of the body, depending on the type and conditions in which sport activity is performed. In this paper, we analyzed knee injuries because they are the most dominant. The knee, which is the largest, the most complex and the most stressed joint, is most exposed to injuries. We analyzed 124 respondents who were treated in the Ribarska Banja, by physical and balneological treatment, during the period 2005-2006. Anamnestic data, as the most common cause of injury, include insufficient training, insufficient physical preparedness, rough start of an opponent or uneven terrain. The knee joint is the most commonly injured region in athletes, and because of the complexity of the joint itself, these injuries are very complicated. Balneal treatment showed positive effects on healing and accelerated return to the field. Balneo Climatic Treatment is always accompanied with certain methods of physical therapy and rehabilitation, and all of them together can accelerate healing. The successful return to the field depends on the applied therapeutic methods and on an early beginning of therapeutic treatment.
The goal of this study is to compare motor abilities of the boys with different body mass indices and determine whether the children are obese or overweight, and to what extent their motor skills are inadequate in comparison to normally nourished children. The sample consisted of 180 grade four students, aged 10 (±6 months), from five primary schools in Užice (The Republic of Serbia). On the basis of the BMI results, the sample was divided into four subsamples: malnourished (N=30), normally nourished (N=90), pre-obese (N=30) and obese (N=30). The evaluation of nine motor abilities was conducted by the battery of eighteen tests. The examinees from the group of the malnourished children (AW) achieved the lowest score in 7 out of 18 tests. The group of normally nourished children (NW) did not achieve the worst average score in any of the tests, and in 10 out of 18 tests they achieved the best average score. The group of pre-obese ones (OW) achieved the best average score in 8 out of 18 tests, and the group of obese participants (OB) achieved the lowest average scores on 11 out of 18 tests, and they did not achieve the best average scores in any of the tests. The research results indicate that the groups of pre-obese and obese persons have certain problems in motor dimension in the segment which is related to the showing of muscle strength and power, in the segment of showing speed and in the segment of balance.
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