Exercise for Children

Follow the links below to find information about exercise, sport, and fitness for children.

Reviewed July 2011

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Title:   ConnectABILITY recreation services
Publisher:   Novita Children's Services
Description:   Provides information about Novita's ConnectABILITY program that aims to provide children living with physical disabilities, aged five to 13 years, with greater access to community-based sport and recreation activities.
Date:   Jan 2012
Title:   Leisure and recreation
Publisher:   Novita Children's Services
Description:   Information is provided about the importance of leisure activities for children with physical disability together with information about services that assist children and families to find suitable activities that welcome disabled people.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Treadmill interventions with partial body weight support in children under six years of age at risk of neuromotor delay
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Children who have a diagnosis of Down syndrome or cerebral palsy, or who are born pre-term, may be delayed in their motor development. Delays in motor development limit children's ability to move and achieve motor milestones such as walking, running an...
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Stress - learning to relax
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Sometimes everything seems to go wrong at once. As more things happen we get more stressed, which means we get too tired and can't think properly!
Date:   Sep 2011
Title:   Growth hormone
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Growth hormone is produced by the pituitary gland of the brain. Growth hormones determine height, bone length and muscle growth. Synthetic growth hormone will not help build muscle size and strength. Children who are experiencing stunted or slowed growth need their natural growth hormone levels checked by medical professionals before any drugs are administered.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Teeth - protecting your teeth
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Teeth can be damaged when you are playing most sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, football, netball, roller blading, or skate boarding. Wearing a mouthguard can protect your teeth.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   I'm no good at sport
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   There are two kinds of sport - organised sport, like belonging to a club or school sports team, and sport that you play with a group of friends at lunchtime or after school.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   I'm bored
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Maybe in school, when you have been super quick and finished the task early. Maybe at home when you have already seen the TV program. Boredom can become the boss of your personality.
Date:   Aug 2011
Title:   Exercise - check your pulse
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Your heart is a pump which pumps blood out around your body through your arteries. You can feel the blood pumping steadily where the arteries are close to your skin.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Physical activity for children
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Exercise is good for growing children as well as for adults. It keeps muscles stronger, increases flexibility and makes them feel better as well as making it easier to maintain a healthy weight.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Sport for children
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Sport is a very important part of the Australian way of life, as well as in many other countries. It is also one of the main ways to help children, young people and adults to keep fit and healthy and avoid becoming overweight.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Cheating - at sport and games
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   You might know someone who has cheated, you might know about someone who has cheated or you might think about cheating or cheat sometimes yourself.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Back pain - children
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Back pain is common in children, particularly during adolescence. Poor posture, inappropriate forms of exercise and carrying heavy schoolbags can cause back pain. If pain is persistent, and felt in the same place, it should be investigated by your medical practitioner.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Sport and children
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Active children are more likely to mature into physically active adults. Benefits of sport and physical activity for children include reduced risk of obesity, increased cardiovascular fitness, improved coordination and balance, better sleep and improved social skills. Reducing sedentary time may be as important for health as increasing exercise time. Best of all, getting moving is fun.
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Managing your feelings
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Did you know you can manage the way you feel? Chemicals going into your brain can change the way you feel? what you do can too feelings and emotions
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Accidents and injury - reducing the risks
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   The risk of serious or complex injuries (major physical trauma) can be minimised by simple measures. Risks can be reduced to avoid car accidents, falls, workplace accidents and sports injuries.
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Exercise
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Could you run and walk for hours, leap over rocks, climb mountains, carry loads, run and have a sound sleep and do it all again the next day?
Date:   Jan 2012
Title:   Child development: 10-12 years
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   It is in these three years that children move from 'childhood' to a view of a more adult world that they will clearly want or be forced to join in the near future
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Teenage girls - getting them active
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Most girls drop their rate of physical activity once they reach adolescence. Physical activity is an important part of health and wellbeing, and girls should remain active as they grow up. Parents can help their daughters to become more active and healthy.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Walking tips
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Walking is an excellent form of exercise for people of all ages and abilities. Start your walking program gradually, increasing length and pace as you get used to it. These tips will help you prepare and get organised so that regular walking becomes a part of your lifestyle.
Date:   Jan 2011

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