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Barriers and facilitators of sport activities in adults with congenital physical disabilities: A Systematic Review
Šašek, Vít ; Daďová, Klára (advisor) ; Vařeková, Jitka (referee)
Title: Barriers and facilitators of sport activities in adults with congenital physical disabilities: A Systematic Review Background: Globally, there are over a billion individuals with disabilities in the world. Those individuals may have one or more physical attributes affected by their condition, restricting their access to sports, fitness activities, and physical tasks related to work or household activities. The lack of exercise poses a significant public health concern and may hinder undisputed benefits for physical and psychological of individual well-being. Objectives: The main objective of this thesis was to systematically review available research sources on sport and physical activity participation among adults with congenital disabilities and to identify the barriers and facilitators for such individuals to participate in physical activities and para sport. Methods: Four databases - Medline, PubMed, ERIC and Sportsdiscus were searched using terms: exercise; para sport, training, physical activity, continuous exercise, and the range of congenital disabilities. We employed a blend of MeSH terms specific to the database, free-form text, wildcard characters (employing '*' to truncate words), and Boolean operators ('AND', 'OR'). Only papers published from 2003 were included and the search...
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Psychosocial Aspects of Changes in Human Mobility
Votrubová, Alena ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Zelinková, Olga (referee)
The diploma thesis - "Psychosocial Aspects of Changes in Human Mobility," focuses on family and siblings of people with physical disabilities, as well as on finding the appropriate support for these families in their specific situation. It particularly deals with people suffering cerebral palsy and spina bifida and possibilities to support the families with disabled individuals in the Czech Republic. The thesis is based on theoretical knowledge gained from publications and laws, hands-on experience acquired in service as a personal care assistant, as well as own research project on siblings of people with physical disabilities. In the first part of the thesis, the author gives basic information about classifications, diagnostics and manifestations of cerebral palsy and spina bifida with major influence of the change in human mobility. In addition, the thesis focuses on the relationship of both parents and siblings, to the handicapped child. The next part is devoted to a research project called "Life with a Sibling with Physical Disability". The research project deals with the direct experience of siblings of people with physical disabilities, critical moments in their lives, resources of coping with this difficult life situation, but also looks at benefits for their personal growth. The aim of...
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Genetics and molecular basis of spina bifida
Kim, Alice ; Krylov, Vladimír (advisor) ; Hovořáková, Mária (referee)
Spina bifida is a neural tube defect that evolves during neurulation when the neural folds fail to fuse and result in an open neural tube. New studies have shown that our understanding of neural tube closure might be wrong and suggested a single site neural tube closure in humans. Various factors like nutrition, genetics, and environment lead to the formation of a neural tube defect. Folic acid and Vitamin B12 have been shown as effective supplements when it comes to lowering the risk of developing NTD and. Genetic mutations of MTHFR, CUBN, CHKA, SARDH, MTRR, Grhl-3, which are all involved in methylations are considered important risk factors for NTD's. Wrong methylation or hypomethylation of Hox and Vangl genes have shown to be also playing a role in NTD's. Par1/Par2 mutations in mice have shown to cause Spina Bifida. Keywords: Spina Bifida, NTD, Neural tube defects, Myelomeningocele, Neurulation
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Psychosocial Aspects of Changes in Human Mobility
Votrubová, Alena ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Zelinková, Olga (referee)
The diploma thesis - "Psychosocial Aspects of Changes in Human Mobility," focuses on family and siblings of people with physical disabilities, as well as on finding the appropriate support for these families in their specific situation. It particularly deals with people suffering cerebral palsy and spina bifida and possibilities to support the families with disabled individuals in the Czech Republic. The thesis is based on theoretical knowledge gained from publications and laws, hands-on experience acquired in service as a personal care assistant, as well as own research project on siblings of people with physical disabilities. In the first part of the thesis, the author gives basic information about classifications, diagnostics and manifestations of cerebral palsy and spina bifida with major influence of the change in human mobility. In addition, the thesis focuses on the relationship of both parents and siblings, to the handicapped child. The next part is devoted to a research project called "Life with a Sibling with Physical Disability". The research project deals with the direct experience of siblings of people with physical disabilities, critical moments in their lives, resources of coping with this difficult life situation, but also looks at benefits for their personal growth. The aim of...
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