Physical Activity

Associate Professor Beth Hands
Dr Dawne Larkin
Professor Helen Parker
Dr Elizabeth Rose
Associate Professor Garth Kendall
Associate Professor Max Bulsara 
The importance of maintaining a healthy level of physical activity through adolescence and into adulthood has been well documented. The Raine Study offers a rare opportunity to track physical activity patterns in children over time and identify changes in the relationships between physical activity and social and environmental influences. The Physical Activity group have been tracking motor competence, physical fitness and physical activity in the Raine Cohort. They are researching:
  • The associations between BMI, physical activity and sedentary behaviours from childhood to adolescence
  • The Relationship between physical activity, motor competence and health-related fitness
  • Intra-individual variation in children’s physical activity patterns: Implications for measurement.
  • Issues in the identification of Developmental Coordination Disorder
  • Perinatal risk factors for Developmental Coordination Disorder
  • Co-occurrence of language and motor difficulties
Publications

Hands B, Larkin D, Parker H, Straker L, Perry M.  The relationship between physical activity, motor competence and health-related fitness in 14-year-old adolescents.  Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, May 2008.

Perry M, Straker L, O'Sullivan P, Smith A, Hands B. Fitness, motor competence and body composition as correlates of adolescent neck/shoulder pain: an exploratory cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2008;8(1):290.

Ridley K, Olds T, Hands B, Larkin D, Parker H. Intra-individual variation in children's physical activity patterns: Implications for measurement. J Sci Med Sport. 2008;In Press, Corrected Proof.
Last updated 15 June 2009