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EDITORIAL

Being physically active can improve your brain health, help manage weight, reduce 
the risk of disease, strengthen your bones and muscles, and improve your abilities in 
many everyday activities.

Professional athletes are well-known for the stress and strain they put on their bodi-
es, and it is generally accepted that they will eventually suffer physical damage. Howe-
ver, as more male athletes report their personal experiences, more attention is being 
paid to mental health as well. Stress can be amplified in elite sports, and the pressures 
they experience in terms of competition and performance can be compounded by ad-
verse life events. The fields of sport psychology and sport psychiatry are rapidly evol-
ving and aim to understand, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate athletes. In this issue, we 
present a study that examined the prevalence of eating disorders and other behaviours 
in male and female Slovenian athletes relating to depressive symptoms and alcohol use. 
Significant differences were found between male and female athletes, and an associati-
on was found between eating disorders and depression.

The unique repetitive nature of ballet dance, which often exceeds the stress limits 
of anatomical structures, leaves dancers vulnerable to injury. This volume evaluates 
the effectiveness of physiotherapeutic and athletic interventions in treating injuries in 
ballet dancers.

In recent years, numerous studies have attempted to gather as much information as 
possible about the abilities and characteristics of young soccer players. Based on the 
results, most of the conclusions of previous studies that investigated the morphological 
characteristics of young soccer players can be confirmed. These results indicate that 
younger soccer players have lower absolute values of morphological characteristics 
compared to older players.

Outdoor adventure education programming is often referenced as an effective inter-
vention that encourages a wide range of outcomes in participants such as increased con-
fidence, independence and communication skills. But as outdoor adventure education 
continues to grow globally, what does the academic literature say about outcomes rela-
ted to these programs? In this issue, you will find a summary of the academic literature 
on one of the major international providers of outdoor adventure education, Outward 
Bound. Fifty-four studies published between 1995 and 2019 have been summarized 
in this review. Recommendations are made for developing more rigorous methods for 
understanding the role of the physical environment in the learning experience and for 
using theoretical approaches to integrate outdoor adventure education into broader aca-
demic fields.

James Parkinson recognized that progressive Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated 
with debilitating postural instability and gait difficulty (PIGD) such as falls and freez-
ing of gait. PD initially causes physical symptoms but later, problems with cognitive 
function, including forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating, may occur. As the disease 
worsens over time, many people develop dementia. For this reason, we are pleased to 
report on the activities of the TwinBrain Summer School “Neuroscience of Movement: 



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Exploring Brain Dynamics in Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders”, which was 
held in Piran, Slovenia in July 2022. Two other activities that we are presenting in this 
issue are the 4th International Conference on Technology Innovations for Healthcare 
(ICDHT), Magdeburg, Germany, and the annual “Knowledge for Health” event, tradi-
tionally organised for the general public by ZRS Koper and the Izola General Hospital.

Mihela Jurdana,
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UVODNIK

Gibalna/športna aktivnost lahko izboljša delovanje možganov, pomaga uravnavati 
telesno maso, zmanjša tveganje za bolezni, okrepi kosti in mišice in izboljša številne 
sposobnosti vsakega posameznika pri vsakodnevnih dejavnostih.

Poklicni športniki so dobro znani po tem, da zelo obremenjujejo svoje telo, in v 
splošnem velja, da bodo sčasoma utrpeli telesne poškodbe. Ker vse več moških špor-
tnikov deli svoje osebne izkušnje, se vse več pozornosti namenja duševnemu zdravju 
v vrhunskem športu. Stres se lahko v vrhunskem športu dodatno poveča, pritisk, ki 
ga doživljajo v zvezi s tekmovanjem in uspešnostjo, pa lahko povečajo še neugodni 
življenjski dogodki. Področji športne psihologije in športne psihiatrije se hitro razvijata 
ter sta usmerjeni v razumevanje, diagnosticiranje, zdravljenje in rehabilitacijo športni-
kov. V tej številki med drugim predstavljamo raziskavo, ki je proučevala razširjenost 
prehranskih motenj in vedenja pri slovenskih športnikih in športnicah v povezavi z 
depresijo in zlorabo alkohola. Ugotovljene so bile pomembne razlike med športniki in 
športnicami ter povezava med motnjami hranjenja in depresijo.

Zaradi edinstvene ponavljajoče se narave gibov pri baletnem plesu, ki pogosto prese-
ga meje obremenitve anatomskih struktur, so baletnice in baletniki pogosto izpostavlje-
ni poškodbam. V tej številki avtorji predstavljajo oceno učinkovitost fizioterapevtskih 
in kinezioloških obravnav pri zdravljenju poškodb baletnih plesalcev.

V zadnjih letih so številne raziskave poskušale zbrati čim več informacij o spo-
sobnostih in značilnostih mladih nogometašev. Na podlagi rezultatov je mogoče potr-
diti večino ugotovitev prejšnjih raziskav, ki so proučevale morfološke značilnosti. Ti 
rezultati kažejo, da imajo mladi nogometaši v primerjavi s starejšimi nižje vrednosti 
morfoloških značilnosti.

Programi izobraževanja na prostem se pogosto omenjajo kot učinkovita intervenci-
ja, ki pri udeležencih spodbuja širok nabor rezultatov, kot so večja samozavest, neod-
visnost in komunikacijske spretnosti. Ker pa trend izobraževanja na prostem globalno 
narašča, se avtor članka v tej številki sprašuje, kaj o rezultatih, povezanih s tovrstnimi 
programi, pravi strokovna literatura. V temeljitem preglednem članku boste našli pov-
zetek strokovne literature o enem od glavnih mednarodnih ponudnikov izobraževanja 
na prostem Outward Bound. V pregledu je povzetih 54 raziskav, objavljenih med le-
toma 1995 in 2019. Navedena so priporočila za razvoj strožjih metod za razumevanje 
vloge fizičnega okolja pri učni izkušnji in za uporabo teoretičnih pristopov za vključe-
vanje izobraževanja na prostem v širša akademska področja.

James Parkinson je ugotovil, da je progresivna Parkinsonova bolezen (PB) poveza-
na z izčrpavajočimi značilnostmi posturalne nestabilnosti in težavami s hojo (PNTH), 
kot so padci in zamrznitev hoje. PB sprva povzroča telesne simptome. Pozneje se lahko 
pojavijo težave s kognitivnimi funkcijami, vključno s pozabljivostjo in nezmožnostjo 
koncentracije. Ko se bolezen sčasoma poslabša, se pri številnih ljudeh razvije demenca. 
Zato z veseljem poročamo o dejavnostih poletne šole TwinBrain Nevroznanost gibanja: 
Raziskovanje možganske dinamike pri Parkinsonovi bolezni in sorodnih motnjah, ki je 



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julija 2022 potekala v Piranu. Drugi poročili se nanašata na 4. mednarodno konferenco 
o tehnoloških inovacijah v zdravstvu (ICDHT), ki je potekala v Magdeburgu v Nemčiji, 
ter na vsakoletni dogodek Znanje za zdravje, ki ga za širšo javnost tradicionalno orga-
nizirata ZRS Koper in Splošna bolnica Izola.

Mihaela Jurdana,
urednica


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