Stress of Cultural Adaption Perceived by International Students Living in South Korea – Focused on Q Methodology

• Published in: Annals of the Romanian society for cell biology Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 1433 - 1442
• Main Authors: Shin, Gun-Ho, Jeong, Da-Jin, Chae, Myeong-Hyeon, Lee, Dong-Yeop, Yu, Jae-Ho, Kim, Jin-Seop, Hong, Jiheon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arad "Vasile Goldis" Western University Arad, Romania 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Arthritis; Contraction; Electromyography; Experiments; Kinematics; Knee; Muscle contraction; Muscle function; Osteoarthritis; Pain; Quadriceps muscle; Soft tissues; Statistical analysis; Italy; South Korea
• ISSN: 2067-3019; 2067-8282

The Ratio was calculated by measuring the muscle activity of the subject's maximum voluntary isometric contraction and unloaded knee extension of rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, and vastus medialis oblique. Introduction The knee joint is one of the largest joints in the body for the weight-bearing and located in the center of a lower-body to the instability and external force of joint and the risk of damage, which means that the function of soft tissues (including the ligament, the membrane, and the muscle) becomes quite important (Lee S C et al, 2009). Earlier studies have traditionally applied open and closed kinetic chain exercises for the strengthening of vastus medialis oblique on those suffering any knee pain; however, there is few researches which compare the muscle activation ratio of quadriceps femoris muscle in the unloaded knee extension and that in the maximum voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) for open kinetic chain exercises. [...]this study was designed to suggest more effective method for the selective strengthening of specific muscle based on the comparison between the muscle activation ratio of rectus femoris, vastus medialis oblique, vastus lateralis muscle in the MVIC and the unloaded knee extension. Statistical analysis This study is designed to measure and compare the ratio of muscle activation (including vastus medialis oblique, vastus lateralis muscle and rectus femoris muscle) between the MVIC and the unloaded knee extension; also, we took statistics using IBM Statistics SPSS 22.0 window program.