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Article: Differences in developmental movement patterns used by active versus sedentary middle-aged adults coming from a supine position to erect stance.
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- August 1, 1992
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The purpose of this study was twofold.. (1) to further validate categories for the movement pattern of supine to standing in adults and (2) to evaluate the influence physical activity might have on the movement patterns used for rising.' Seventy-two adults, between 30 and 39 years of age (X =34.1, SD=2.8), performed the rising task while being videotaped. Subjects were divided into three groups by selfreports of level of physical activity (daily to rarely). Individual video, taped trials were classified using the previously described categories. Comparisons among the activity-level groups revealed that more active subjects demonstrated more developmentally advanced ...