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Ngassa Piotie, Patrick; Wood, Paola Silvia; Muchiri, Jane Wanjiku; Webb, Elizabeth M.; Rheeder, Paul (Elsevier, 2021-10)AIMS : To investigate the attitudes and beliefs of primary healthcare practitioners (HCPs) towards initiating insulin therapy for people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) in South Africa. METHODS : A cross-sectional survey was ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, Ernst H.; Govender, Catherine; Henning, E.; Kleynhans, Michael; Wood, Paola Silvia; De Villiers, Nico P.; Van Rooyen, J.M.; Fletcher, Lizelle; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)Stress is an unavoidable part of everyday life due to the demands and stressors associated with modern lifestyle. Health risks provoked by this increasingly prevalent condition lead to cardiovascular disease, which ultimately ...
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A comparative study of the identification of rotator cuff calcifications : x-ray versus ultrasound Pavlova, E.; Oschman, Zanet; Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Wood, Paola Silvia (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)A deposit of calcium in the rotator cuff tendons, also known as calcifying tendinopathy, is a common condition. Calcifications are often associated with significant pain and restriction of shoulder movement. The hypothesis ...
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Wood, Paola Silvia; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Barnard, J.G. (Southern African Alliance for Sport Science, Physical Education and Recreation, 2013)Physical training (PT) is an integral part of developing operational fitness. The objective of the study was to compare the physical fitness outcomes of two groups of young South African military recruits completing 12 ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Tsotetsi, A.; Soma, Prashilla; Govender, Catherine; Henning, E.; Naicker, Lee-Anne; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Wood, Paola Silvia; Terblanche, E. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)Research has shown that a strong correlation exists between vision and performance. In the sporting environment, it is believed that athletes perform better than non-athletes and males perform better than females. In this ...
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Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Pepper, Michael Sean; Du Toit, Peet J.; Wood, Paola Silvia; Ker, James A.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Grobbelaar, C.W. (Craig); Nolte, Kim; Fletcher, F.; Grant, T.C. (Thelani) (Medpharm Publications, 2014)BACKGROUND : Fitness is defined in the health context as a state of good health or physical condition, primarily as a result of exercise and proper nutrition. Conventional methods of measuring fitness are expensive, time ...
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Ngassa Piotie, Patrick; Wood, Paola Silvia; Webb, Elizabeth M.; Hugo, J.F.M. (Jannie); Rheeder, Paul (Sage, 2021-01)BACKGROUND: In South Africa, initiating insulin for people with type 2 diabetes and subsequent titration is a major challenge for the resource-constrained healthcare system. Inadequate support systems in primary care, ...
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Egbunike, I.A.; Wood, Paola Silvia; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2009-10)A longer lifespan has increased the emphasis on bone health, which is often compromised with age. Studies have shown that exercise yields a positive influence on bone mineral density (BMD), especially when done during the ...
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Wood, Paola Silvia; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Loots, J.M.; Grimbeek, J. (Jackie) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2007-12)
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Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Billson, John Henry; Wood, Paola Silvia; Du Toit, Peet J. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2015-03)Low back pain (LBP) has become one of the most influential musculoskeletal diseases of modern society. Exercise has been shown to be very effective in the treatment of chronic low back pain (CLBP). The goal of the study ...
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Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Rothschild, R.M.; Wood, Paola Silvia; Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Collins, Robert Matthew; Du Toit, Peet J. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)Elevated plasma homocysteine concentrations are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Nutritional supplementation of folic acid may be used to reduce homocysteine levels and thus minimise the risk ...
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Wood, Paola Silvia; De Vos, J.W.; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2009-12)This study was aimed at determining whether treatment with nutritional supplementation would improve pathology measures of disease risk. A total of twenty (20) healthy males, 30-60 years of age, served as participants. ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Janse van Vuuren, P.; Le Roux, S.; Henning, E.; Kleynhans, Michael; Terblanche, H.C.; Crafford, Dalene; Grobbelaar, C.W. (Craig); Wood, Paola Silvia; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Fletcher, Lizelle (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2012)INTRODUCTION: Visual performance is an important factor in sport excellence. Visual involvement in a sport varies according to environmental demands associated with that sport. These environmental demands are matched by a ...
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Brunette, E.L.; Kotze, J.; Wood, Paola Silvia; Du Toit, Peet J.; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia) (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)Physical activity during pregnancy has been investigated for its potential benefits which includes weight control. Physical activity patterns of pregnant women in Tshwane, South Africa, were investigated using the EPIC–Norfolk ...
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Du Toit, Francois; Schwellnus, Martin Peter; Wood, Paola Silvia; Swanevelder, Sonja; Killops, Jannelene; Jordaan, Esme (Elsevier, 2020-11)OBJECTIVES : Prevalence, clinical characteristics and severity of gradual onset injuries (GOIs) in cyclists are poorly documented. We determine the prevalence, anatomical regions/sites affected and severity of GOIs among ...
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Du Toit, Peet J.; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst); Naicker, Lee-Anne; Govender, Catherine; Jay-Du Preez, T.; Grobbelaar, C.W. (Craig); Grant, Rina; Wood, Paola Silvia; Kleynhans, Michael; Mercier, J. (Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2012-03)The two fundamental categories of vision include visual-perceptual and visual-motor skills. Visual-motor skills encompass three essential ocular motor skills, namely focusing, eye-hand coordination and tracking. The aspects ...
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Janse van Rensburg, Dina Christina; Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Audrey; Janse van Rensburg; Botha, R.P.G. (Roelf Petrus Gerhardus); Wood, Paola Silvia; Nolte, Kim; Fletcher, Lizelle; Du Toit, Peet J.; Pepper, Michael Sean; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (Elsevier, 2016-12)BACKGROUND : The FitTrack Index is a web-based programme developed in South Africa and widely used by athletes to indicate their fitness. A need exists for a self-managed, noninvasive tool to evaluate and categorise ...
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Wood, Paola Silvia; Kruger, P.E. (Pieter Ernst) (MedPharm Publications, 2015)BACKGROUND : Stress fractures are a common military training injury. Flexibility of muscles and joints may directly influence stress-fracture risk by way of altering the forces applied to bone. Hip external rotation and ...
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Grant, C.C. (Catharina Cornelia); Viljoen, Margaretha; Van Rensburg, Dina C.J.; Wood, Paola Silvia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)BACKGROUND: The effect of exercise interventions on autonomic nervous system (ANS) control of the heart by heart rate variability (HRV) is often investigated in just one position. It was hypothesized that results of ...
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Hene, Nceba; Wood, Paola Silvia; Schwellnus, Martin Peter; Jordaan, Esme; Laubscher, Ria (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2021-02)OBJECTIVE : To determine the prevalence of non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors, total NCD risk category and 10-year risk for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in financial sector employees. METHODS : This descriptive ...
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