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While performance-based assessment has long been a staple of education, no book covers the relevant topics for middle and high school physical education as thoroughly as this new edition of Performance-Based Assessment for Middle and High School Physical Education. Loaded with assessment templates and sample units, the Physical Education Assessment Toolkit provides you with everything you need in order to simultaneously assess and teach students the lifelong value of physical education.
In his upcoming book, End Back & Neck Pain (Human Kinetics, September 2011), Fortanasce and coauthors David Gutkind and Robert Watkins, MD, break down the three most common workstation trends that predictably lead to neck, midback, arm, or leg symptoms. What are the warning signs that your pain is more than “ordinary” spine pain and that you should take an immediate trip to your doctor’s office or emergency room? Spinal pain is the second most common reason for a medical office visit and the ...
If you have chronic spinal pain that has not been aggravated recently, here are some basic self-intervention activities to help you feel better. Most chronic pain patients have some form of sleep loss which results in an escalation of their pain perception. In most cases, stretching is the self-intervention that provides the most benefit for chronic pain sufferers.
The stagger stance facilitates shifting your weight so that you can keep items close to you and reduce the load on the spine. A stagger stance allows you to reach overhead with less shoulder and neck strain. The stagger stance (figure 6.6b) allows you to shift your weight forward as you reach forward, effectively keeping the item closer to you and minimizing the counterbalance needed.
