LAIR: Lenoir-Rhyne Academic Institutional Repository

The Lenoir-Rhyne Academic Institutional Repository (LAIR) is managed by the University Libraries and has been established to preserve and make broadly available the scholarly works of the LR community. LAIR is appropriate for article pre-prints and manuscripts, conference papers, instructional material, as well as student projects, theses, and dissertations. The repository also provides a digital home for the university’s historical and cultural collections.

The repository is currently accepting submissions by faculty, staff, and students who want to share their work with a worldwide audience. Go to LAIR LibGuide for information on how to deposit materials to the repository. Use this form to start the submission process (you must first be logged into the LRU portal to access the form).

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    Telemedicine and COVID-19 An Investigation of the Perceived Impact on Medical Professionals in Rural and Urban Areas
    (2021-05-10) Royster, Drew
    Telemedicine use has increased substantially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though it has been widely implemented, its accessibility has been a barrier in rural healthcare communities in comparison to urban healthcare. Telemedicine can be defined as the electronic exchange of medical information through a variety of digital mediums. The sudden spike in telemedicine usage in the past year has clearly exposed the weaknesses of this mode of medicine in both rural and urban areas. The main focus of this study is to assess the attitudes and perspective of medical professionals in rural and urban communities as it relates to telemedicine and the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be done through a survey sent out to a variety of medical professionals in a quantitative format. From this study, it was found that the COVID-19 had a major impact on the use of telemedicine in the surveyed communities. Even more so, the majority of participants had a positive attitude toward telemedicine, after experiencing it throughout the pandemic.
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    The Impact of Self-myofascial Trigger Point Release on Fatigue Management and Performance in Female College Basketball Players
    (2022-05) McClung, Hanna
    Basketball represents a sport that often causes substantial musculoskeletal injury. Female basketball players report delayed muscle activation, interfering with their ability to land properly. Fatigue also coincides with delayed neuromuscular activation. Both men and women reported decreased hamstring, quadricep, and gastrocnemius activation when fatigue was present (Gehring, Melnyk, & Gollhofer, 2009). Muscular trauma presents itself as myofascial pain, signaling improper muscle function. Travell and Simons (1999) define a trigger point as an irritated band of skeletal muscle that is painful once compressed, stretched, or contracted. Trigger points have been reported to cause increased muscle fatigability and altered muscular activation patterns (Gerwin, 1999). By implementing trigger point release therapy, the taut muscle band can return to normal length and functionality, reducing the risk of fatigue-related performance hindrances. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of a once-weekly self-myofascial trigger point therapy on the vertical jump performance of female basketball players during regular season. The intervention group participated in trigger point therapy by utilizing a lacrosse ball to release trigger points in major muscle groups. Both control and intervention groups performed vertical jump testing weekly to measure power output and how fatigue over the competitive season effected the jump heights. The longitudinal study concluded no statistical significance between the control and intervention group vertical jump trends over the year; however, practical significance existed. The control group experienced a gradual decline in jump performance, whereas the intervention group maintained jump height over the course of the season. This research focused on the prevalence of fatigue on athletic performance and introduced a potential method to eliminating decreases in performance over a long competitive season.
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    Intervention Strategies Aimed at Mealtime Difficulties for Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
    (2021-05-04) Page, Reagan
    Children diagnosed with ASD oftentimes struggle with sensory overloads, leading to difficulties with mealtime behaviors. These difficult mealtime behaviors come in many form and have varying impacts on parents and how to address management of mealtime difficulties. By utilizing a survey design, data was collected through social media and analyzed for both quantitative and qualitative results about a child's eating preferences. Through the data collected in the survey, it was shown that children with ASD had picky food preferences and often exhibited unwanted behavior during mealtimes. The finding of this study revealed some similarities and differences between previously published research.
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    The effects of positive reinforcement on participation of pediatric clients receiving occupational therapy
    (2021-04-29) Roney, Tyler
    Occupational therapy has been one of the main factors in helping children with Cerebral Palsy and patients with many other disorders and setbacks to live their fullest potential in life. Since therapy is a major influence on the lives of these people, it was hypothesized that having an increased level of motivation from positive reinforcement will have positive outcomes on patient’s participation levels. To collect this data, researchers put a survey on social media for occupational therapists. There were 4 questions. 2 of them pertained to verbal positive reinforcement and the other 2 pertained to physical positive reinforcement. When all data was received, a 2-tailed t-test of sample means assuming unequal variance with 95% confidence was performed to evaluate the outcome difference between verbal and physical positive reinforcement. There was no statistically significant difference between verbal and physical positive reinforcement (p=0.717). The data found that 100% of participants used verbal positive reinforcement 76-100% of the time and found that it slightly or significantly improved outcomes in patients. Physical positive reinforcement is not used as much, however, when it is used, research shows that it also slightly or significantly improves the outcomes of patients. The hypothesis could not be denied from the data received in this study.
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    Influence of Vertical Jump Kinetics on Change of Direction Ability
    (2020-02) Cloninger, Bailey
    PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between a female athlete’s vertical jump and her ability to change direction. METHODS: Sixty Division II female athletes (mean±SD; age= 19.40±1.32; mass= 68.42±11.63kg; height= 169.95±8.67cm) completed body composition testing on the InBody 770© bioelectrical impedance device, performed a countermovement jump (CMJ) and static jump (SJ) on dual force plates, then participated in the 5-0-5 agility test and T-Test, respectively. RESULTS: A strong negative correlation was found between the 5-0-5 agility test and countermovement jump (r= -.421) and the t-test (r= -.557). The static jump and 5-0-5 test also produced a negative correlation r= (-.463) as well as the static jump and t-test (r= -.580). Further, participants exemplified a positive correlation between percent body fat and times for the 5-0-5 (r= .429) and t-test (r= .443). CONCLUSIONS: Those who produced the most power and had the highest vertical jump were also the fastest sprinters in this study when presented with change-of-direction tasks. Lower body power is the best predictor of vertical jump height and change-of-direction speed. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: One important finding is the significant negative correlation between jump height and change-of-direction speed. The results suggest that athletes who produce more power in the vertical direction will also change direction faster. Athletes may look to improve their power output by using strength training exercises such as the squat, deadlift, clean, lunge, etc.

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