Background. While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for policy makers. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study used methods to provide highly detailed estimates of g...
Objective: To evaluate the effect of an aquatic training program on bone mass density (BMD) in post- menopausal women with fibromyalgia (FM). Design: Randomised controlled trial (ISRCTN53367487). Settings: Faculty of Sport Science Subjects: Twenty-four postmenopausal women with FM (mean age, 56, SD, 7 years) were randomised to intervention (n=12) or control group (n=12). Interventions: The experimental group re...