PubMed · 4486360
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S Strzyzewski. 1973. [Physical activity].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4486360/
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As therapy of ankylosing spondylarthritis still remains empirical, gymnastics and sports are of particular importance within the treatment of this disease. They aim at the improvement or at least the preservation of mobility, force and endurance. By those means an eventual immobilisation of the axial skeleton or the peripheral joints should take place in a position as favourable to function as possible. Various joint mobilisation techniques as well as muscle stretching are used to improve mobility. The latter thus pointedly prevents muscular disbalances. Various training methods are able to improve muscular performance. Slow dynamic force training can be used in gymnastic lessons as well as in home programmes. Maximal and staying power can thus be increased. Aerobic muscular training favours general efficiency, has a positive influence on risk factors of cardiac and vascular diseases and improves thoracic excursion. Motivation of the patient is correlated with the diversion of exercise, therapies and sport activities. The suitability of these measures are to be judged by expected maximal strain, the control of motion pattern, the effect of external forces as well as by the hazard to fall. Each and every sport activity has to be accompanied by supportive gymnastics. The most important sport disciplines are evaluated.
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The United States Gymnastics Federation won its struggle for international recognition and has since succeeded creditably on the international level. However, the organization faces monetary problems, with which it has made some progress. Much remains to be done. To satisfy the grassroots grumblings, the U.S.G.F. must deal with this important part of the gymnastics program. The newly elected executive director of the U.S.G.F., Michael Jacki, underscores this as one of his most urgent problems. The United States Association for Independent Gymnastics Coaches, with its great contribution to the sport through its many innovative programs, deserves a greater voice in national and international concerns through the U.S.G.F. structure. The tremendous challenges facing the sport are how to reinstate the men's intercollegiate and interscholastic gymnastics programs that have been dropped and how to expand existing ones. Finally, the U.S.G.F. has to work toward a more cooperative relationship between the men's and women's program. The women have made great strides and should assist the men in this boom. A cohesive attitude should be developed for one sport, gymnastics, for both sexes.