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Video games-based interventions for health promotion: can those be the future for exercises?

Mandy Kaur

In general, we all have played some sort of video games in our childhood. Some games even managed to keep us glued to screens for hours as adults. While the games were largely designed for children in the beginning, they have gradually moved to cover all demographics....

New! Database with sports injury prevention exercises

Alex Macznik

For the last year, we have worked very hard to start a website that would gather exercise programmes aimed at preventing sports injuries. It took us a while but we did it, and now you can browse our database for the programme which suits your needs, be it particular...

Exercise can control your blood pressure

Suranga Dassanayake

It is a well-known fact that exercise is good for physical and mental well-being. Exercise is considered a ‘medicine’ (Exercise is Medicine Australia, 2014), and is highly recommended for the management of hypertension (high blood pressure) (Weber et al., 2014;...