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Motor performance and somatic characteristics of women
KALIŠOVÁ, Karolína
Karolína Kališová: Motor performance and somatic characteristics of women (age category 25,00 - 34,99). The aim of the thesis is to compare and evaluate the measured results of 36 women (volunteer firefighters) aged 25,00 - 34,99 years. Measurements were conducted from October 2023 to January 2024, focusing on body characteristics such as height, weight, circumferential dimensions (right arm, abdomen, hips, and right thigh), skinfold thickness (subscapular, suprailiac, above the biceps, above the triceps, on the mid-right thigh), and tests of spine mobility (Stibor's sign, Otto's sign, Schober's sign, Čepoj's sign, Thomayer's sign, and lateral flexion test). Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated for each subject based on height and weight, along with the sum of skinfolds. The research also included the evaluation of the foot printogram and a questionnaire on life satisfaction in the areas of health, work and employment, leisure time, own person, friends and relatives with additional supplementary questions. Interesting results of the study include, for example, a comparison of our sample with 50-year-old volunteer firefighters (Douchová, 2019), where significantly higher differences were observed in older women in terms of foot arch decline (tested by Chippaux and Šmiřák, average in the flat foot category), and spine mobility (Stibor's sign, Otto's sign, Schober's sign, Čepoj's sign, Thomayer's sign) was statistically significantly less in older women except for the cervical spine (tested by Čepoj's sign).
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Selected characteristics of the mobility in adults (age category 50,0-59,9 y.)
DOUCHOVÁ, Kristýna
The aim of the bachelor´s thesis was to evaluate the mobility of the spine, the condition of flat feet and the basic anthropological characteristics of fifty-years-old adults. There were measured 36 women and 36 men living in small villages of the Vysocina Region. These adults were voluntary firefighters and were involved in firefighting sport. Part of the thesis was to make a research of accessible Czech and foreign literature, which is focused on this subject. From the measured values were selected basic somatic dimensions, such as body height, body weight, circumference of right arm, hips, abdomen and thigh. Values of skin thickness were measured above the biceps, triceps, scapula, above the hip and thigh. The detected results were compared to results of previous research studies. Statistically significant were differences of skin thickness compared to the Czechoslovak Spartakiad in 1985. The average values of skin thickness are increasing compared to the 1985 data. According to the WHR index the distribution of fat was detected as risky in case of men and peripheral in case of women. There were performed tests of the mobility of spine, test of Thomayer, test of Čepoj, test of Stibor, test of Schober and test of Otto. From the tests, which evaluate the hypermobility, there were the lateral flexion test and the scarf test. The mobility evaluated by functional tests was the same as the recommended values for the adult population in case of Stibor, Otto and Čepoj tests or slightly higher in case of Thomayer test and scarf test. In the case of functional tests was found that the volunteer firefighters both men and women, ranging in age from 50 to 60 years have a good mobility of the spine. The footprint was detected by the plantogram method. In a relatively high percentage was detected the occurrence of flat feet, in case of women in sixty percent. The distribution of fat was detected as risky in case of men and peripheral in case of women.
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