Swimming - Statistics & numerical data
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Impact of chlorinated swimming pool attendance on the respiratory health of adolescents.

12 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to estimate the burden of allergic diseases associated with chlorinated pool exposure among adolescents. METHODS: We examined 847 students, 13 to 18 years of age, who had attended outdoor or indoor chlorinated pools at ... Read more...

Perceptions of the motivational climate created by parents of young Portuguese swimmers.

30 May 2009 The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of parent-initiated motivational climate in young Portuguese swimmers. 244 participants (130 boys, 114 girls; M age = 13 yr., SD = 2), involved in advanced swimming programs (n = 88) or ... Read more...

Predicting race performance in triathlon: the role of perfectionism, achievement goals, and personal goal setting.

30 Mar 2009 The question of how perfectionism affects performance is highly debated. Because empirical studies examining perfectionism and competitive sport performance are missing, the present research investigated how perfectionism affected race performance ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Swimming - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Impact of chlorinated swimming pool attendance on the respiratory health of adolescents. 12 Sep 2009
• Perceptions of the motivational climate created by parents of young Portuguese swimmers. 30 May 2009
• Predicting race performance in triathlon: the role of perfectionism, achievement goals, and personal goal setting. 30 Mar 2009
• Self-reported water and drowning risk exposure at surf beaches. 30 Mar 2009
• Variability and progression in competitive performance of Paralympic swimmers. 27 Feb 2009
• Asthma and swimming: a meta-analysis. 29 Sep 2008
• Review of acute chemical incidents involving exposure to chlorine associated with swimming pools in England and Wales, June-October 2007. 9 Sep 2008
• [Exostoses of the external auditory canal. Is the cold water hypothesis valid for patients in continental areas?] 30 Mar 2008
• Drowning in a high-income developing country in the Middle East: newspapers as an essential resource for injury surveillance. 30 Jan 2008
• Descriptive epidemiology of drowning deaths in a surf beach swimmer and surfer population. 30 Jan 2008
• Physical activity and low-back pain in schoolchildren. 6 Jan 2008
• Age-related changes in top-ten men's U.S. Masters 50-m freestyle swim times as a function of finishing place. 29 Nov 2007
• Bone mineral density in collegiate female athletes: comparisons among sports. 29 Jun 2007
• Intensive physical activity and alexithymia: results from swimmers' discourse analysis. 30 May 2007
• Patterns of early involvement in expert and nonexpert masters triathletes. 30 Aug 2006
• Water maze swim path analysis based on tracking coordinates. 30 Jul 2006
• The determinants of prevalence of health complaints among young competitive swimmers. 2 Apr 2006
• Sex and sport-related differences in satisfaction among Greek swimmers. 30 Mar 2006
• Profile: Lewis Gordon Pugh--polar swimmer. 29 Nov 2005
• The anthropometrical and physiological characteristics of elite water polo players. 21 Jun 2005

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Technical information about 'Swimming'

Definition: An activity in which the body is propelled through water by specific movement of the arms and/or the legs. Swimming as propulsion through water by the movement of limbs, tail, or fins of animals is often studied as a form of PHYSICAL EXERTION or endurance.

Descriptor UI: D013550

Alternative terms: Swimming;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; injuries; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics; physiology;

Tree Number: G11.427.590.530.568.800; G11.427.590.530.698.800; I03.450.642.845.869;

Technical Notes: human & animal; / inj: coordinate IM with specific injury (IM); includes body-surfing, does not include surfboarding, windsurfing or water-skiing (index under SPORTS); consider also DIVING; index NIM for swimming in animal experiments on PHYSICAL EXERTION