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The purpose of this descriptive qualitative secondary analysis study was to examine the health perceptions, physical activity capability, and coping strategies of older adults volunteering to build a house for Habitat for Humanity. There is a paucity of literature on how older volunteers rate their health, what types of physical activity older volunteers engage in, and how older volunteers handle physically demanding volunteer activities such as Habitat for Humanity, which requires ...
A physical activity–related musculoskeletal injury involves some type of acute disorder in a bone, muscle, joint, or connective tissue that is attributable to physical activity or exercise. The more physical activity a person performs, the higher the risk of musculoskeletal injury associated with the activity. A history of injury is one of the most consistent risk factors for injury during physical activity reported in the literature.
