Emergency Medical Products unveils new branding

DUBLIN, Ohio — Emergency Medical Products Inc. (EMP), part of the fast-growing Sarnova family of companies, today announced the business has just completed an extensive rebranding effort, including development of a new logo and visual style. The new EMP brand brings a more modern and bold visual identity to the company, which has served first responders for over 45 years. Providing quick and easy ...

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Fla. county waives ambulance fees for residents

A new policy went into effect May 1 in which Bay County will only collect the amount insurance pays, and nothing out of pocket

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The effects of different durations of static stretching within a comprehensive warm-up on voluntary and evoked contractile properties

Abstract

Evidence for performance decrements following prolonged static stretching (SS) has led to a paradigm shift in stretching routines within a warm-up. Rather than SS, dynamic stretching (DS) and dynamic activity (DA) have replaced SS within warm-up routines. The objective of the present study was to compare the effect of differing lower limb SS durations (30 [SS30s], 60 [SS60s] or 120 s [SS120s] of SS per muscle group or no-stretch control) within a comprehensive warm-up protocol consisting of aerobic activity, DS and DA. Sixteen male participants completed the four stretching conditions in a randomized order, after a 5-min low-intensity (cycle) warm-up and before a DS/DA component on separate days. Tests included passive hip and knee ranges of motion (ROM), maximum voluntary knee extensor/flexor force, force produced at 100 ms (F100), vertical jump height and evoked knee extensor contractile properties. For hip flexion (hamstrings) ROM, SS120s provided the largest increase (5.6–11.7%) followed by SS60s (4.3–11.4%), control (4.4–10.6%) and SS30s (3.6–11.1%). For knee flexion (quadriceps) ROM, SS30s provided the largest increase (9.3–18.2%) followed by SS120s (6.5–16.3%), SS60s (7.2–15.2%) and control (6.3–15.2%). There were decreases in quadriceps F100 following SS in SS120s (29.6%) only. There were increases in vertical jump performance in the control (6.2%), SS60s (4.6%) and SS30s (3.3%). While 120 s SS per muscle increased ROM, even within a comprehensive warm-up routine, it also elicited notable performance decrements. However, moderate durations of SS were observed to improve ROM whilst either having negligible or beneficial (but not detrimental) effects on specific aspects of athletic performance.

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When is a proxy not a proxy? The foibles of studying non‐image forming light

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.


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Functional decoupling of melatonin suppression and circadian phase resetting in humans

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.


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Issue Information

The Journal of Physiology, Volume 596, Issue 9, Page 1529-1530, 1 May 2018.


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Altered autonomic control of heart rate variability in the chronically hypoxic fetus

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.


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