Browsing Doktorgradsavhandlinger / PhD Dissertations by Subject "nih"
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Enactive Movement Integration: En handlingsorientert bevægelsesdidatik for folkeskolen
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)I denne afhandling undersøger jeg, hvordan bevægelse kan integreres i undervisningen i folkeskolen i Danmark. Afhandlingen bidrager til et internationalt forskningsfelt, hvor bevægelse integreret i undervisningen betegnes ... -
Exercise and the Pelvic Floor
(Doctoral thesis, 2024)Background: Exercise and strenuous work have been suggested, but not established, as possible risk factors for pelvic floor disorders (PFD) in women. Urinary incontinence (UI) has been shown to be highly prevalent in the ... -
Fitness clubs: A venue for public health?
(Doctoral thesis, 2022)Background: The health benefits of regular physical activity (PA) are well known. Still, about 70% of European adults are insufficiently physically active. Thus, a further understanding of how modifiable factors such as ... -
Give me a thousand gestures: Embodied meaning and severe, multiple disabilities in segregated special needs education
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)In this dissertation I investigate subjective embodied experiences of students in primary and secondary schools. The eight students participating in the study all have the diagnose multiple disability, yet they have a ... -
Groin injuries among football players : A substantial but preventable problem
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Background: Groin injuries represent a considerable problem in football and account for 4% to 19% of all time loss injuries among male players. Until now, groin-specific exercise programmes have not shown a significant ... -
Hamstring injuries in women's football: Building the foundation for future hamstring injury prevention
(Doctoral thesis, 2024)Introduction: Training and match demands in women’s football have soared during the last decades and may have altered the risk for injury and illness players face. To develop effective preventive measures tailored to the ... -
Head injuries in FIS World Cup alpine skiers, snowboarders and freestyle skiers: Epidemiology and video analyses of head impact injury mechanisms
(Doctoral thesis, 2019)Background: Head injuries represent a concern in skiing and snowboarding, where traumatic brain injury is the most common cause of death. We therefore wanted to describe the risk of head injuries across disciplines and sex ... -
Health-related physical fitness: Status of body composition, musculoskeletal- and neuromotor fitness, and the e ect of a tailored, telephone and email based exercise intervention on body composition and physical fitness
(Doctoral thesis, 2019)Background: The increasing obesity prevalence rates in addition to the increasing physical inactivity rates present serious public health challenges worldwide. The effect of these trends on aspects of health-related physical ... -
Helse som didaktisk fenomen i kroppsøvingsfaget: En multimetodisk studie om undervisning om helse på ungdomstrinnet.
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Temaet for denne avhandlingen er undervisning om helse i kroppsøvingsfaget. Over lang tid har helse vært et aspekt ved faget og politiske styringsdokumenter tydeliggjør at elever skal få kunnskaper om helse gjennom ... -
‘The How of Decision-Making.’: A Qualitative Investigation of Student Decision- Making When Learning in Physical Education
(Doctoral thesis, 2024)The thematic focus of this article-based dissertation is student decision-making in connection to student learning in physical education (PE). Based on a review of previous Norwegian and international PE literature, the ... -
"I have a pacemaker and hip replacement, but I'm up and running": rural Norwegian men's meanings related to health, body and physical activity
(Doctoral thesis, 2017)The overall aim of this study is to create an understanding of how a heterogeneous sample of 18 men of different ages, education and ethnic backgrounds, living in or close to a rural town in Hedmark County in Norway, ... -
The impact of vitamin D3 supplementation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and exercise load on resistance training-associated adaptations in older adults
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)Background: Lifestyle therapy with resistance training is a potent measure to counteract age-related loss in muscle strength and mass. Unfortunately, many individuals fail to respond in the expected manner to such treatment. ... -
The importance of oxygen extraction and blood volume for maximal oxygen uptake
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)This thesis includes four research papers, based on four separate studies aiming to elucidate the importance of O2 extraction and blood volume (BV) for maximal O2 uptake (VO2max). In study I, twelve untrained subjects ... -
Improving the Methodology of Training Load and Injury Risk Research: An Analysis of Analyses
(Doctoral thesis, 2023)Background: Sport injuries burden professional and recreational athletes. In 2021, Norwegian hospitals operated 1 462 anterior cruciate ligaments, and 62% of these happened during sports activity. To prevent injuries, it ... -
Inclusion of children with disabilities in physical education: Current knowledge base and the experiences of children with disabilities and their parents
(Doctoral thesis, 2019)Background: Children with disabilities are at risk of social and pedagogical marginalisation and exclusion in physical education (PE). Despite increased international research initiatives, our knowledge of what supports ... -
Indices of physical activity, executive function, and academic performance among 10-year-old schoolchildren: cross-sectional, prospective, and intervention findings from The Active Smarter Kids (ASK) school-based cluster-randomized controlled trial
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Bakgrunn: Eit aukande tal studiar viser at born oppnår kognitive fordelar av deltaking i fysisk aktivitet. Få studiar av høg kvalitet har derimot undersøkt effekten av skuleintervensjonar med fysisk aktivitet som er integrert ... -
Injuries in elite male youth football and athletics: Growth and maturation as potential risk factors
(Doctoral thesis, 2021)Background: Elite youth athletes participate in intense and structured training programmes to realise their performance potential, but their development may be interrupted by injuries. To reduce the impact of injuries we ... -
Injury prevention in elite handball
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Handball is a team throwing sport characterised by frequent and rapid changes of movement, high intensity running efforts, cutting and jumping, frequent physical contact between opponents and repeated overhead throwing at ... -
Inpatient intensive lifestyle intervention for the treatment of severe obesity: beyond the weight reduction, and experiences with physical activity
(Doctoral thesis, 2015)The recent increase in the prevalence of severe obesity has led to an urgent need for non-surgical treatment options and increased focus and priority on lifestyle interventions specifically targeted toward this obesity ... -
Knee cartilage surgery: epidemiology, research methods and a proposal for improved surveillance
(Doctoral thesis, 2017)Focal articular cartilage defects (FCDs) of the knee are identified in 20% of knee arthroscopies and are affecting a large and severly troubled group of young, adult patiens. FCDs may subsequently lead to knee osteoarthritis ...