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Royal academy of medicine in Ireland section of biomedical sciences
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Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Section of Biomedical Sciences
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Royal academy of medicine in Ireland section of biomedical sciences
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A twelve month study of sports injuries in one Irish School
A literature review suggested that both acute and overuse injuries were common in body contact sports. This hypothesis was tested on a group of 266 Irish adolescents in an investigation that examined the incid...
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Royal academy of medicine in ireland section of biomedical sciences
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Sports injuries in school gaelic football: A study over one season
School football injuries were studied over the seven months of one season on 150 males aged 16.94±0.82 years. Training averaged 4.13±1.47 hours per week and matches 1.84±0.60 hours per week. Mean time injured ...
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Height, body weight, skinfold thickness and endurance fitness of children attending national schools in Ireland
Height, body weight, the thickness of triceps, biceps, subscapular and supra-iliac skinfolds and the six-minute run-walk test of aerobic endurance were measured on 1163 National school children between the age...
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Quantification of the influence of body fat content on selected physical performance variables in adolescent boys
The relationship between body fat content and nine measures of physical performance were investigated in a group of 70 adolescent males of mean age 15.48 years. Five of these measures of physical performance w...
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Posture and anthropometric variables in Irish males: Variations with social group and rural-urban environment
In a group of 254 Irish males aged 17 to 20 years the anthropometric variables height, weight, bulk index, percentage of fat, fat free weight were measured and the following aspects of posture assessed: kyphos...
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A study of the relationships between somatotype, level of habitual activity and physical working capacity in post-puberal males
The level of physical activity of 53 postpuberal school boys was recorded during a typical week, using the activity diary technique. The somatotype of each subject was determined photoscopically and physical w...
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The relationship of level of habitual activity to measures of leanness-fatness, physical working capacity, strength and motor ability in 17 and 18 year-old males
The relationships between physical working capacity (PWC), level of habitual activity, relative leanness-fatness, isometric strength and motor ability have been examined in 85 17 and 18 year-old school boys. L...
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The physical working capacity of male adolescents in Ireland
The physical working capacity (PWC) of 303 male adolescents was measured using the PWC170 test. The changes in PWC with age were similar to those reported by other workers; the PWC of male adolescents in Ireland ...
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Muscular fitness of Irish school children
Ashort battery of tests of muscular strength and flexibility was administered to a group of 1,947 Irish school children between the ages of eight and 11 years.