This literature review investigated the influence of specifically designed team ball games on healthy ageing in older adults. The search revealed six relevant articles of good and fair quality according to an adapted version of the Downs and Blacks Checklist. Although the best evidence synthesis revealed …

Objective: To investigate the effects of a school-based once-a-week sports program on physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiometabolic health in children and adolescents with a physical disability. Methods: This controlled clinical trial included 71 children and adolescents from four schools …

The Netherlands strives for an inclusive society. In order to achieve this, the United Nations Convention on Disability has been ratified. In this convention sport is explicitly named as a means towards inclusion. Still, it is not yet clear what the role of sport is in this. Extensive research has been …

Most interactive sports-oriented products that are commercially available focus on individual athletes. The ones that focus on team sports rarely go beyond performance monitoring. Therefore, in this case study we focus on team dynamics in secondary school sports teams. These teams typically have to deal …

For creating sports innovations we need tools to collect data on physical activity behaviour. Collecting data is time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, sharing data and using it to answer multiple research questions is desirable. Especially in larger multidisciplinary research projects, it is beneficial …

De patiëntenpopulatie in de eerste lijn vergrijst en steeds vaker hebben we te maken met een ‘kwetsbare’ oudere patiënt. Maar wie is de aangewezen therapeut in zo’n geval? Kan een oudere patiënt met nek en rug klachten gewoon terecht bij de algemeen fysiotherapeut of moet die juist naar de manueel therapeut …

Fit For Free, een landelijke fitnessketen, geeft aan niet goed te weten op welke wijze social media in te zetten. Zodoende geeft de fitnessketen aan behoefte te hebben aan een uitleg over hoe Fit For Free meer online engagement met haar doelgroep verkrijgt door middel van social media. Wendy Petiet, …

The target article describes an interesting study, which provides some challenging findings regarding athletes' pathway to excellence. The suggested links between critical life events, need for success, personal characteristics, and eventual performance level make sense from a psychodynamic perspective. …