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The Healing Effects of Piano Practice-Induced Hand Muscle Injury.

Background The muscles related to piano practice are mainly concentrated in the fingers and upper limbs, and the muscles related to other parts of the body are weak. Compared with other sports injuries, the injuries caused by piano practice are mainly chronic injuries caused by long-term strain of the upper limbs, and acute injuries rarely occur. The purpose of this study was to analyze the therapeutic effect of hand muscle injury caused by piano practice. Method A total of 60 patients with hand muscle injury caused by piano practice admitted to our hospital from January 2019 to June 2020 were selected. According to the number random grouping method, they were randomly divided into two groups. There were 30 patients in the observation group, including 20 males and 10 females, aged 24-53 (39.51 ± 7.01) years old, and the course of disease was 1-5 (3.24 ± 1.62) months. In the control group, there were 30 patients, including 18 males and 12 females, aged 24-56 (39.62 ± 7.17) years old, and the course of disease was 1.5-5 (3.14 ± 1.71) months. If the observation group experienced excessive pain, the group took ibuprofen sustained-release capsules. On weekdays, exercise your fingers 2-3 times per day. After the intervention, the wrist joint function score of the observation group was higher than that before the intervention. Results Before treatment, there was no significant difference in pain level scores between the two groups (P > 0.05). After treatment, the limb pain score in the observation group was lower than that in the control group. The effective rate of hand tendon rehabilitation in the observation group was 93.33%. The effective rate of hand tendon rehabilitation in the control group was 70.00%. The comparison results showed that there was statistical significance (P < 0.05). The score of the observation group was significantly higher than that of the control group, with statistically significant differences (P < 0.05). Conclusion Piano workouts can cause hand muscle difficulties, which can be alleviated by daily finger gymnastics. Daily finger exercises are simple and not limited by time and place. Piano practitioners can use the spare time of daily training and performance to exercise for a long time, so as to prevent or recover finger muscle damage caused by piano practice. It has the potential to help pianists avoid hand muscle injuries when practicing while also allowing music to reach its full potential.

A Survey Of The Motivation Of Exercising For The Santri Putra Pondok Pesantren Sabillurrosyad Gasek Malang 2019

The importance of the community to do sports viewed from various aspects and interests. The benefits of sports social good and others are. In terms of physiological, exercise can accelerate the development of the body better, activate and strengthen different types of muscles, the vital capacity, generally tend to realize the development of the organs of the body in a harmonious and functional, in terms of the social sports can trigger strap, the brotherhood of the group, fostering a great responsibility to be affection and respect among fellow. From the standpoint of sports psychology, the belief that God is the Helper self help athletes through many avenues. First, belief in God fosters self-confidence (confidence) and hope to win (winning expectancy). Efforts to memasyaratkan sports and exercise your community needs to be improved, because by exercising each individual will get an alternative that provides a significant contribution to the achievement of the quality of life of the elderly successful. Then that sport is very recommended because with sports, there are a variety of motion analysis such as: strength, speed, agility, balance, endurance, coordination, flexibility, and stamina, and all it will increase all the quality of function of the organs towards which is better. Boarding school Sabilurrosyad is a place for a muslim who want to explore the science of religion. With the material learning to be focused in the context of religious activities. Sports is considered as an activity that is not so important and also receive less attention of the caretaker cottage. He considers sports activities not too important impact to the lack of allocation of time given to the caretaker cottage to the activities of the exercise. With so these students can not do activity sports freely and maximal. The purpose of this study was to determine how the motivation to exercise santri putra Pondok Pesantren Sabilurrosyad Gasek Malang in the year of 2019. This study uses a research design descriptive quantitative. With a purpose to describe a symptom, events, and happenings that occur in a factual, systematic, and accurate. With a total population of 30 santri putra pondok Pesantren Sabilurrosyad Gasek Malang randomly selected or random sampling, each respondent is not given a certain criteria. The Data from this research is a description of how the motivation to exercise santri putra Pondok Pesantren Sabilurrosyad Gasek Malang. The instruments used to collect data in the form of a questionnaire questionnaire given to each respondent. Techniques of data collection using questionnaires, documentation, and observation. The results of research conducted with 30 respondents, namely santri putra Pondok Pesantren Sabilurrosyad Gasek Malang obtained data showed that motivation to exercise santri putra pondok pesantren Sabillurrosyad Gasek Malang the majority in the category of very high, as is evident by the percentage of the results of the study showed a figure of 60% of 30 respondents have a very high motivation, whereas the remaining 40% of the respondents have the motivation to exercise high. It can be concluded that the motivation to exercise mawlaya Boarding school Sabilurrosyad Gasek Malang 2019 the majority in the category of very high.

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A Gym Workout for Your Brain: How Mindfulness Can Help Improve Mental Health

You probably know that going to the gym to exercise is good for your body. Exercise keeps us fit and healthy. Did you know that you can also exercise your mind to keep it fit and healthy? Mindfulness training is just like taking your brain to the gym for a workout. When we practice mindfulness, we are training our attention to stay in the present moment instead of wandering off with our thoughts into the past or the future. By keeping our attention in the present, and bringing it back each time it wanders, we are training the brain networks that we use to control our attention. This type of training can improve our mental health, just like physical exercise improves our physical health.

Exercise Your Muscles and Improve Your Emotional Health

Exercise Your Muscles and Improve Your Emotional Health

Basal Ganglia: Striosomes and the Link between Motivation and Action

The basal ganglia integrate motivation and action across their circuits; neurons in anatomical modules called striosomes could contribute strongly to this merger. A new method focusing on network interconnections will allow a better understanding of the functional role of striosomes.

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A slow, steady weight reduction of 1 to 2 lbs per week is the recommended way to lose and sustain a healthy weight. We are overwrought with misleading information on weight loss and fitness programs that lead us to believe exercise is grueling work and nutrition is deprivation. No wonder we are amidst an obesity epidemic! People tend to believe that eating healthy is expensive; but it doesn’t need to be. According to research from the Harvard School of Public Health, the healthiest diets only cost about $1.50 more per day than the least healthy diets (1). To lose weight and maintain weight, a simple, systematic, multifaceted approach is necessary: attitude rewiring, physical preparation, and emotional control. REWIRE YOUR ATTITUDE Think about health and fitness in a positive way. Often, people think of fitness as a difficult, time-consuming, expensive endeavor. However, physical activity can be as simple as finding time each day to walk the dog. To create and maintain healthy habits for a lifetime, you need to rewire your behavior. Once you rewire your attitude, you will approach tasks differently and begin to make changes. Making small changes at first, then gradually introducing more and more “good habits,” is the key to success. Consider exercising after work. If you go home after work, you feel “done” for the evening. Bring exercise clothes to work and leave them in the car. This “cue” is one of the best ways to create a new habit. The cue leads to the desired response (going straight to the gym from work). The desired response then leads to the “reward,” which is the wonderful feeling you get after a great workout. The feeling you get from the reward response then becomes something you desire and seek to obtain daily. PREPARE PHYSICALLY To ensure adherence, it is imperative to take initiative each day to prepare for your fit lifestyle. This preparation can be accomplished by preparing meals in advance, gathering gym shoes and clothes each morning, and plotting out your day to include at least 30 minutes of physical activity.CONTROL EMOTIONS Emotional control is the most important aspect of this three-pronged approach. People tend to consume “comfort food” in times of distress. This type of behavior can completely sabotage an otherwise fit day. It is very important to recognize a stressful situation and take the proper measures to ensure you are not eating for comfort. FIRST STEPS Few people can lose weight without cutting the calories they consume. As the saying goes, “You can’t exercise your way out of a poor diet.” A 500 kcal per day deficit is associated with a weight loss of about 1 lb a week (2). Cutting calories can be challenging and may leave you quite hungry. Choosing unrefined carbohydrates with a low glycemic index may help to curb your appetite. For those trying to lose weight, strict portion control of energy-dense foods is essential. Learning to avoid so-called supersize options and choosing mini or snack-size varieties can be a useful strategy. MAINTENANCE To be successful in the long-term, you need to be able to identify high-risk situations (when you may be likely to overeat) and to develop practical coping strategies. A mental dilemma occurs when you regress to old habits. To avoid this pitfall, new habits must be formed. Good habits can include learning how to shop for groceries or finding new cooking methods. This knowledge also is fundamental when eating at a restaurant or cooking on a budget and is vital for long-term weight loss maintenance. Here are some quick tips: Eat vegetables to help you feel full. Drink plenty of water. Get tempting foods out of your home. Stay busy — you don’t want to eat just because you’re bored. Eat only from a plate, while seated at a table. No grazing in front of the ‘fridge. Don’t skip meals. Keep a food journal. Remember, motivation is what gets you started; habit keeps you going!

Exercise Your Kynurenines to Fight Depression

Kynurenines, the major degradative products of the essential amino acid tryptophan, may play critical roles in the pathophysiology of depressive disorders. In 2014, Agudelo and colleagues reported that exercise indirectly modulates the metabolism of kynurenines in skeletal muscle, which in turn influences the brain and enhances resilience to depression.

A 6-month follow-up of an RCT on behavioral and neurocognitive effects of neurofeedback in children with ADHD.

To assess the long-term effects of neurofeedback (NFB) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), we compared behavioral and neurocognitive outcomes at a 6-month naturalistic follow-up of a randomized controlled trial on NFB, methylphenidate (MPH), and physical activity (PA). Ninety-two children with a DSM-IV-TR ADHD diagnosis, aged 7-13, receiving NFB (n=33), MPH (n=28), or PA (n=31), were re-assessed 6-months after the interventions. NFB comprised theta/beta training on the vertex (cortical zero). PA comprised moderate to vigorous intensity exercises. Outcome measures included parent and teacher behavioral reports, and neurocognitive measures (auditory oddball, stop-signal, and visual spatial working memory tasks). At follow-up, longitudinal hierarchical multilevel model analyses revealed no significant group differences for parent reports and neurocognitive measures (p=.058-.997), except for improved inhibition in MPH compared to NFB (p=.040) and faster response speed in NFB compared to PA (p=.012) during the stop-signal task. These effects, however, disappeared after controlling for medication use at follow-up. Interestingly, teacher reports showed less inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity at follow-up for NFB than PA (p=.004-.010), even after controlling for medication use (p=.013-.036). Our findings indicate that the superior results previously found for parent reports and neurocognitive outcome measures obtained with MPH compared to NFB and PA post intervention became smaller or non-significant at follow-up. Teacher reports suggested superior effects of NFB over PA; however, some children had different teachers at follow-up. Therefore, this finding should be interpreted with caution. Clinical trial registration Train your brain and exercise your heart? Advancing the treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Ref. no. NCT01363544, https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01363544 .

Exercise, eat right, and enjoy your friends

Exercise, eat right, and enjoy your friends

Get Off the Couch! Exercise Your Way to a Healthy Brain

We all know that physical activity is good for the heart and lungs, but is it also good for the brain? Research has shown that regular physical activity can boost brain performance in various different kinds of people, from children and young adults to older adults at-risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. These improvements in brain performance can be measured by tests of memory, thinking, and attention. It is thought that physical activity improves brain performance by changing both the way the brain functions and its size, a process known as neuroplasticity. In particular, physical activity may increase the size of a part of the brain called the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center. Importantly, the benefits of physical activity on the brain are seen at all ages, which means it is never too late to start exercising to help the brain. This research shows that being physically active may be an enjoyable way to help you improve your grades at school now and to keep your brain healthy throughout your life.

When You Exercise Your Avatar in a Virtual Game: The Role of Avatars’ Body Shape and Behavior in Users’ Health Behavior

Abstract We experience virtual worlds as avatars—we dress, move, engage in activities or interact with other users as avatars. Recent studies suggest that embodying an avatar does not only influence users’ behavior in a virtual environment, but it can also change users’ behavior in reality. However, little has been known about the role of an avatar's appearance in changing users’ behavior through embodying the avatar. We investigated how an online game avatar's body shape (obese vs. normal weight) and health behavior (healthy behavior vs. unhealthy behavior) can affect users’ health behavior after their virtual experience. Specifically, we conducted a laboratory experiment, and assigned participants to either an obese or a normal-weight avatar in a game. Half of the participants’ avatars performed healthy behaviors (engaged in physical activities and vegetable consumption), and the other half of participants performed unhealthy behaviors (engaged in sedentary behavior and binge-eating). After 20-min gameplay, participants were offered a box with high-sugar cookies, and also asked to use an exercising machine. According to the results, the normal avatar's healthy behavior increased participants’ exercising behavior (use of the exercising machine). However, the obese avatar's healthy behavior did not. Additional analyses revealed that using an avatar with an unhealthy lifestyle predicted male participants’ consumption of high-sugar cookies. The avatar's body shape alone did not independently predict neither participants’ exercising behavior nor cookie consumption. Theoretical and practical implications for the use of virtual environments to increase users’ health behavior were discussed.

Exercise Your Brain.

Last May, Dr. Bibiana Campos-Seijo, Editor-in-Chief of C&EN, tweeted about her new world record in the deadlift for her age/weight category. The video clip of Bibiana lifting a 320-lb barbell was a powerful and literal reminder of how working the body can fuel the brain. Getting out of the lab to hit the gym, pool, basketball court, softball field—or even the neighborhood sidewalks—can clear the chemist’s mind for new big ideas and enhance perspective on problems of the day. Such excursions can be social or solitary, competitive or collaborative, intense or meditative. No matter the medium, working out is an important component of our success when we are working in.

The Stars are Aligned: Nurses Must Exercise Their Voice

The author develops in this editorial a claiming discourse whose purpose is to draw attention to the nurses to make their voices heard at a particularly propitious time for it (the stars are aligned). Afaf Meleis describes the current situation as the ideal for the nursing profession, finally, exercise your voice and contribute to optimizer health care through greater presence of nursing in all areas related to health. Demographic, educational, social and health changes, increasingly require the presence of nurses to optimize the quality of care, especially self-care.

Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds

Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds

Produção em série? A subjetividade do professor universitário no cenário de industrialização acadêmica

Em uma sociedade capitalista na qual impera a competitividade e a produção desmedida, deveria ser a universidade espaço de reflexão e crítica. Contudo, parece ter também a academia se rendido às esteiras da produção em série, fazendo dos professores servos de publicações, defesas, apresentações de trabalho, organização de seminários etc. Diante de tal cenário, faz sentido supor que a subjetividade docente, em um contexto de aprisionamento da criatividade e da intencionalidade própria do professor, se faz ausente. Como uma das possíveis consequências desse processo de enrijecimento do eu, tem-se precarização do trabalho docente com a possibilidade de adoecimento deste. Todavia, é possível que o elemento vivo do humano seja resgatado e que, por esse motivo, a subjetividade docente seja construída de modo a exercitar o trabalho criativo. Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir de que modo se dá o árduo, mas possível, processo de construção da subjetividade do professor universitário em tempos de indústria acadêmica.

Mary Beth and John Tinker and Tinker v. Des Moines: Opening the Schoolhouse Gates to First Amendment Freedom

Mary Beth and John Tinker and Tinker v. Des Moines: Opening the Schoolhouse Gates to First Amendment Freedom KELLY SHACKELFORD One of the most famous phrases from a U.S. Supreme Court decision comes from Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community SchoolDistrict. In its majority opinion, written by Justice Abe Fortas, the Court said: It can hardly be argued, that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. Tinker is not only one of my favorite cases, but a case I use every week in my work defending religious liberty in America. Some people might ask, “How does a group that does religious liberty rely so heavily on a free speech case?” The answer is that it’s very difficult to exercise your religious freedom if you can’t speak. So as you might imagine, free speech is very important to me. And in the schools when you’re fighting a religious freedoms’ case, Tinker is the main case to cite because of that precious right to free speech. But how did the Tinkers get to the chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court? That is crucial to understand. In 1965, despite “Bonanza” and “Gomer Pyle” being the number one shows on television, it was a very tumultuous time. Martin Luther King and 2,600 others were arrested in Selma, Alabama. Malcolm X was shot and killed. There were riots in Watts, where thirty-four people were killed, 1,000 people were injured, unrest lasted over six days, and 4,000 people were arrested. It’s also the time when the Vietnam War started. By the end of 1965, almost 190,000 American troops were in Vietnam. So in November of that year, it probably wouldn’t surprise you to find out that a large number of people were TINKER (1969) AND STUDENTS’ FREE SPEECH 373 gathering for a demonstration, a march to the White House, to get our troops home, to get out of the war. And as his mother announced that she was going to the march, fifteen-year-old John Tinker said, “I really want to go too.” And that’s really where this whole case started. Who was this family, the Tinkers? They had a long history of involvement with civil rights and demonstrations. If you look at that history, for instance, you find that Leonard Tinker, their father, grew up in a conservative community in Hudson, New York, and was a devoutly religious man. In fact, he met his wife Lorena at seminary. And this devout religious background led him to some conclusions in his life: a very strong Quaker-like anti-war pacifism and a commit­ ment to racial equality. And as a Methodist minister, that caused some problems. When he was in Atlantic, Iowa as a pastor, he stood with the only black family in town and their right to go to the community swimming pool. That ended up costing him his pastorate, and he was moved to Des Moines. In Des Moines, when he and his wife would invite black couples to their church, that caused trouble as well. Eventually John Tinker took a leave of absence from the Methodist church and accepted a position that he really loved, the Secretary of Peace and Education of the American Friends Service Committee. This is a Quaker group that’s committed to peace and anti-war activities. That led him to speak at churches all around. And when he traveled, he would take his children, and they would see what he was talking about. So, in fact, the Tinkers had been standing up for racial equality and what they believed for many years—with their children. Don’t miss that. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came through town, he actually talked to Lorena and he said, “Aren’t you concerned about the danger to your children when you take them to these things?” Dr. King was concerned about his own children and their safety. And Lorena answered him, “Well, number one, we’re trying to pass along our values to our children. Number two, ifthe issue is serious enough, I just don’t...