... Abstract Climbing and mountaineering sports are gaining more and more public interest. This chapter reviews scientific studies on injuries and accidents in climbing and mountaineering sports to evaluate the danger of these sports and their specific injuries and preventive measures. An initial...

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..., kiteboarding, BMX, and motocross into their definition of extreme sports. Other sources have included sports such as motorcycle racing, rock climbing, and base jumping in their definitions. This all points to the fact that adventure and extreme sports are not just a fad. Instead, due to the media attention...

.... Balance improves, and they are eager to jump and climb. Gradually toddlers build coordination, although skills such as riding a tricycle and catching a ball are often not accomplished before age 3 years. Gross motor skills and physical activity are related and stimulate reciprocally. A recent review...

... to strength, assistance in walking, rising from a chair, climbing stairs, and fall frequency. This simple approach is validated [ 15 ]. Treatment for the sarcopenic somewhat younger individual would still be the same as for the frail older individual; i.e. adequate protein and vitamin D supplementation...

...), Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Support Group (CLIMB CAH; founded 1992) and the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group (AISSG UK; founded 1990). Women who attended AISSG UK meetings subsequently founded 24 groups internationally, including...

... thereafter, as symptoms of nausea and anorexia increase when the urea starts to climb over 20 mmol/L. The blood urea level is a reflection of protein intake, unless there is a catabolic state, when it reflects tissue breakdown. A very low urea suggests protein malnutrition. Dietary protein intake is rarely...

... and organized sport, exercise per se as in jogging, weight training, cycling and/or walking, transport as in walking or cycling, household-related activities as in climbing stairs, gardening, etc., and perhaps others. Contexts and meanings attached to specific forms of PA vary with age and perhaps gender...

... the very beginning people had asked about growing vegetables on harvested rice paddies but few ever did then. Now it is common to put compost on these available spaces and use them as kitchen gardens until the next planting season. During the summer season, the focus is on climbing vegetables...

..., there was a custom of fathers refraining from physical activities such as climbing trees, high rocks, house tops, and being very careful when walking downhill. All these activities were to protect the expecting mother from miscarriage. The other custom from Southern Soudan, where around the delivery day the father...

.... There are many drivers of these changes but the primary one is economic development (see Fig. 1 ). As countries progress through the economic transition anthropometric health metrics improve (stunting and wasting rates decline) but then start to deteriorate again (overweight and obesity rates climb...

... includes a mind-boggling array of behaviors – pivoting in circles, belly crawling, inchworming, bum shuffling, knee walking, log rolling, pulling to stand, cruising, sliding, backing, and climbing. Similarly, infants’ postures (e.g., side-lying, mermaid posture, W-sit, ring-sit, long-sit, and short-sit...