Browsing by Author "Szczepanowska, Ewa"
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Item A report on physical performance in female patients diseased for idiopathic scoliosis(Polskie Towarzystwo Antropologiczne, 2001) Laurentowska, Maria; Szczepanowska, Ewa; Głowacki, Maciej; Rychlewski, TadeuszThe purpose of this study was to examine physical performance and exercise tolerance in patients with scoliosis in comparison with healthy girls of the similar age. Results of the study show the similar aerobic performance in both groups. However, exercise tolerance was significantly lower in patients with scoliosis than in the control group. Similarly, resting values af cardiac output and stroke volume were significantly lower in girls with scoliosis as comared with healthy girls.Item Charakterystyka elektroforetycznej ruchliwości jąder komórkowych (EMN) u trenujących dziewcząt(Tower Press Sopot, 2006) Czapla, Zbigniew; Szczepanowska, EwaMetabolic activity of cells could be describe by changes of an index of Electrophoretic Mobility of Cell Nuclei (EMN) in epithelium cells. The examined group (N = 33) consisted of female juniors practicing rowing. In this study 3 exercise tests of an increasing intensity up to: anaerobic threshold, maximal oxygen uptake and supermaximal intensity were applied. Values of EMN index reflected an influence of physical exercise on metabolic status of an organism determining a concentration of acidic intermediates. Changes of EMN index were connected with the metabolic threshold of anaerobic processes indicating the oxygen potential of an organism. EMN index could be used as an additional parameter to evaluate physiological changes under the influence of physical exercise. In an aspect of the level of performance it could be helpful in evaluation of physiological changes during training process.Item Excessive physical exercise in tourism and recreation and its metabolic effects(2008) Szczepanowska, Ewa; Umiastowska, Danuta; Czapla, ZbigniewAn excessive physical exercise destructively influences on humans. This question has now a not overpriced meaning because there are more and more popular extreme kinds of tourism, recreation and sport, and far shifting limits of results attained in elite sport, and there are wider range of time and loads of professional work, which can lead even to work holism. If compare human body organization to not oversized device or building construction, one has to say that human body is in the same way subjected to stress, it means energy expenditure. A subjection to permanent stress without a full recovery can cause an abiding change of a metabolism regulation level. It means strain of this regulation. It is a shift within a genetically programmed range of homeostasis and a change of biological requirements of human body subordinative to maintenance a relative and very labile metabolic balance. However, it is not free. Each physical exercise is a download of an energetic credit from human body energetic substrates. If this credit is too high, it can cause a dysfunction of some functional spheres of a human being and can turn into an overtraining status. Usually, it manifests in suppression of the most energy-consuming function, it means reproductive function. It occurs in both genders. Then, this question is very complicated from the psychic sphere of human being, too.Item Physical activity and normal body mass of women aged 45-55(Polskie Towarzystwo Antropologiczne, 2003) Nowak, Maria; Szczepanowska, EwaThe aim of this paper was to determine the degree to which physical activity in women aged 45-55 was an independent influence on body mass, as expressed by BMI, and to what degree it occured in interaction with their level of education, financial status, and self-evaluated physical effieciency and health status. The material consisted of 212 female inhabitants of three cities in Poland, participating in physical exercises for at least one year. Statistical analysis of the collected data was carried out by the chi-squared test, the H test, the Mann-Whitney U test, and analysis of variance (ANOVA). A statistically significant relation between the level of physical activity and BMI values was observed. Women with a medium and high level of physical activity were most often of normal body mass, whereas women with low activity were characteristically overweight. Analysis of the data revealed that the normal body mass of women aged 45-55 was influenced by: the level of physical activity, level of education, and financial status of respondents. Physical activity was an independent factor influencing normal body mass of women, irrespective of social features (i.e., education and financial status).