Motor Development and Learning
Tara taherpouri; hasan mohammadzade; raziye khanmohammadi
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Objective the specific content of these interventions and their optimal delivery methods, especially for pediatric populations, remain inadequately described.Methodology: This semi-experimental study employed a pretest-posttest design with a one-month follow-up. Twenty-four children aged 7 to 10 years ...
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Objective the specific content of these interventions and their optimal delivery methods, especially for pediatric populations, remain inadequately described.Methodology: This semi-experimental study employed a pretest-posttest design with a one-month follow-up. Twenty-four children aged 7 to 10 years diagnosed with ADHD were purposively selected based on inclusion criteria and randomly assigned to two groups: yoga combined with real DLPFC stimulation and yoga combined with sham DLPFC stimulation. The study consisted of pretest, intervention, posttest, and follow-up stages. Following familiarization, participants completed the Ulrich-3 test at pretest. The intervention lasted four weeks, with four sessions per week, conducted every other day; each session was 40 minutes long. At the end of the intervention, participants completed the Ulrich-3 test again in the posttest, and one month later during the follow-up phase. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance .Results: Findings indicated that both yoga combined with real and sham DLPFC stimulation significantly improved and maintained gross motor skills (locomotor and object control skills) in children with ADHD (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the combination of yoga with real DLPFC stimulation demonstrated superior effects compared to yoga with sham stimulation in enhancing and sustaining gross motor skills (p < 0.05).Conclusion: This study presents an evidence-based training program that rehabilitation specialists and occupational therapists can directly implement when working with children with ADHD. Additionally, the results highlight the potential use of DLPFC stimulation combined with yoga as an efficient and practical intervention to improve motor proficiency and executive function children with ADHD.
khadijeh Irandoust; Morteza Taheri; Ali Seghatoleslami
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of physical activity onmemory and dynamic balance of elder people. Subjects (n=15) were selected asvolunteers. The intervention was performed in an eighteen session period, threetimes a week (each session, 45 minutes). Yoga training was performed ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of physical activity onmemory and dynamic balance of elder people. Subjects (n=15) were selected asvolunteers. The intervention was performed in an eighteen session period, threetimes a week (each session, 45 minutes). Yoga training was performed for mentalrelaxation. Wexler test was performed for memory evaluation. Seat up test wasused to test the dynamic balance. The results suggested that water-based exercisesand Yoga protocol have had a positive significant effect on memory (p=0.03) anddynamic balance. It was concluded that a selected physical activity program,especially water-based exercises has less potential for making people injured.
Nasrollah Sarraf; Taktom Emami
Volume 1, Issue 2 , October 2009, , Pages 127-145
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The purpose of the present study was to compare the effect of 5 and 10 weeks of aerobic and yoga exercises on physical self–description components of female students. 57 sedentary female students (age range of 19-25 years old) from Ferdowsi University who did not have any experience of those training ...
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The purpose of the present study was to compare the effect of 5 and 10 weeks of aerobic and yoga exercises on physical self–description components of female students. 57 sedentary female students (age range of 19-25 years old) from Ferdowsi University who did not have any experience of those training modes were selected and randomly and equally assigned to two experimental groups (aerobic and yoga) and one control group. The experimental groups participated in the program for 10 weeks, two sessions per week, each session 60 minutes. During this period, the control group did not engage in any organized exercise program. In order to collect data, physical self–description questionnaire was used at three different points (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the test). One–way ANOVA and post hoc Tukey test showed that at the end of the 5th week of exercise, coordination and sport competence components in yoga group were significantly higher than aerobic and control groups (P
