A5014296275- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Physical Activity and Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Occupational Health and Performance
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Sports Performance and Training
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Research in Social Sciences
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Occupational health in dentistry
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Physical Education and Training Studies
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute
2012-2023
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
2015
Tampere University
1995-2010
This study was conducted to criterion-validate the short format of International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) against health-related fitness.Participants included 951 men, aged 21-43 yr. VO2max by ergometer used measure cardiorespiratory fitness. Muscular fitness tests number sit-ups, push-ups, and squats performed during 60 s. activity assessed from IPAQ categories for health (health-enhancing physical (HEPA)) calculating total vigorous MET-hours per week. The participants were...
Registered healthcare workers worldwide have a high prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, particularly the back. Multidisciplinary interventions among these improved fear avoidance beliefs, but not low back pain (LBP) and related sickness absences, cost-effectiveness studies are scarce. Our purpose was to investigate effectiveness three intervention-arms (combined neuromuscular exercise care counselling or either alone) compared with non-treatment.We randomly assigned female...
Purpose Our recent study of three accelerometer brands in various ambulatory activities showed that the mean amplitude deviation (MAD) resultant acceleration signal performed best separating different intensity levels and provided excellent agreement between devices. The objective this was to derive a regression model estimates oxygen consumption (VO2) from MAD values validate MAD-based cut-points for light, moderate vigorous locomotion against VO2 within wide range speeds. Methods 29...
Summary Objective Accelerometers are increasingly used for objective assessment of physical activity. However, because lack the proprietary analysis algorithms, direct comparisons between accelerometer brands difficult. In this study, we propose and evaluate open source methods commensurate raw data irrespective brand. Design Twenty‐one participants carried simultaneously three different tri‐axial accelerometers on their waist during five sedentary activities intensity levels bipedal...
Summary Background The 6‐min walk test (6 MWT ) is cost‐effective and well‐documented field for assessing functional exercise capacity response to medical interventions in diverse patient groups, predicting cardiorespiratory fitness among healthy people. Objective Assessments of terms maximal aerobic power ( VO 2 max) have great potential public health monitoring predict future health, early retirement ability independent living. This study aimed develop a prediction model max based on 6...
Hip-worn accelerometers are widely used to estimate physical activity (PA), but the accuracy of acceleration threshold-based analysis is compromised when it comes identifying stationary and sedentary behaviors, let alone classifying body postures into lying, sitting, or standing. The purpose this study was devise a novel method for accurate classification posture using triaxial data from hip-worn accelerometer evaluate its performance in free-living conditions against thigh-worn...
Military service in Finland is compulsory for all male citizens and annually about 80% of 19-year-old men enter into the service. The elevated risk many chronic diseases loss function among those who are inactive unfit can be often detected already youth. On other hand, activity-induced injuries young true public health issue. purpose present prospective cohort follow-up study was to evaluate predictive associations between acute or overuse their various intrinsic factors.Four successive...
Regular physical activity (PA) confers many positive effects on health and well-being. Sedentary behavior (SB), in turn, is a risk factor for health, regardless of the level moderate to vigorous PA. The present study describes levels objectively measured SB, breaks standing still PA among Finnish adults.This cross-sectional analysis based sub-sample population-based Health 2011 Study adults. population consisted 18-to-85-year old men women who wore waist-worn triaxial accelerometer (Hookie...
Hereby we summarize the work developed by ALPHA (Assessing Levels of Physical Activity) Study and describe tests included in health-related fitness test battery for children adolescents. The evidence-based ALPHA-Fitness include following tests: 1) 20 m shuttle run to assess cardiorespiratory fitness; 2) handgrip strength 3) standing broad jump musculoskeletal fitness, 4) body mass index, 5) waist circumference; 6) skinfold thickness (triceps subscapular) composition. Furthermore, two...
Hereby we summarize the work developed by ALPHA (Assessing Levels of Physical Activity) Study and describe tests included in health-related fitness test battery for children adolescents. The evidence-based ALPHA-Fitness include following tests: 1) 20 m shuttle run to assess cardiorespiratory fitness; 2) handgrip strength 3) standing broad jump musculoskeletal fitness, 4) body mass index, 5) waist circumference; 6) skinfold thickness (triceps subscapular) composition. Furthermore, two...
We evaluated the association of accelerometer-based sedentary behaviour and physical activity with risk cardiovascular disease. The design this study used a population-based, cross-sectional sample. A subsample participants in Health 2011 Study Finland tri-axial accelerometer (≥4 days, >10 h/day, n = 1398). Sedentary (sitting, lying) standing still six-second epochs were recognised from raw acceleration data based on intensity device orientation. was calculated as one-minute moving averages...
In Brief Study Design. A randomized controlled study with 12 months intervention. Objective. To the effectiveness of a training intervention emphases on control lumbar neutral zone (NZ) and behavior modeling as secondary prevention low back pain (LBP) disability. Summary Background Data. Improving NZ enhancing muscle activation patterns ensuring spinal stability have been proposed means for LBP addition, cognitive interventions shown to lower risk recurrence long-term Methods. Middle-aged...
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the main reason for morbidity during military training. MSDs commonly result in functional impairment leading to premature discharge from service and disabilities requiring long-term rehabilitation. The purpose of study was examine associations between various risk factors with special attention physical fitness conscripts. Two successive cohorts 18 28-year-old male conscripts (N = 944, median age 19) were followed six months. MSDs, including overuse...
The rapidly increasing number of activity-induced musculoskeletal injuries among adolescents and young adults is currently a true public health burden. objective this study was to investigate whether neuromuscular training programme with injury prevention counselling effective in preventing acute men during military service. trial design population-based, randomised study. Two successive cohorts male conscripts four companies one brigade the Finnish Defence Forces were first followed...
The Finnish recommendations for health-enhancing physical activity (PA) adults (≥18 years) recommend: (i) ≥150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous-intensity (MVPA) and (ii) activities that develop muscle strength balance ≥2 days/week. However, adherence to these among the is currently unknown. This study reports on self-reported PA associations with sociodemographic factors adults. Data were used from "Regional Health Well-being Study." In 2013-2014, postal questionnaires sent 132,560 persons,...
Low back pain (LBP) is common among healthcare workers, whose work physically strenuous and thus demands certain levels of physical fitness spinal control. Exercise the most frequently recommended treatment for LBP. However, exercise interventions targeted at sub-acute or recurrent patients are scarce compared to those chronic LBP patients. Our objective was examine effects 6 months neuromuscular on pain, lumbar movement control, fitness, work-related factors 6- 12-months' follow-up female...
Background : Studies measuring physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior on a 24/7 basis are scarce. The present study assessed the feasibility of using an accelerometer at hip while awake wrist sleeping to describe patterns in working-aged adults by age, sex, fitness. Methods was based FinFit 2017 where 20- 69-year-old Finns triaxial (UKKRM42; UKK Terveyspalvelut Oy, Tampere, Finland). During waking hours, kept right and, during time bed, nondominant wrist. PA variables were 1-min...