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With aging and weight gain, the population is significantly overweight and faces additional pressure on vertebral and peripheral joints (ankles, knees, hips, shoulders), which affects muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. Muscle contraction, translated by pain, sends the patient to the doctor. Lumbar and cervical spine disorders occur in 70-80% of the world's population during their lifetime. They are a major problem because they reduce the quality of life and increase the costs borne by health services and patients. There are multiple therapeutic options, both classic medication and alternative treatment, to combat pain for a longer or shorter period. Relief or suppression of pain, the dominant symptom in the manifestations of degenerative arthritic diseases, is an important goal of treatment, ultimately improving the quality of life. Patients, for various reasons, frequently seek alternative therapies, especially to surgical treatment. Finding the most comprehensive treatment is often a challenge. If we consider the benefit that a treatment (therapy) should bring to the health condition, then an individualized therapeutic plan must be chosen. A retrospective study on the effects of ozone and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) treatment compared to classic medication shows the role of ozone therapy in pain relief and the beneficial effect of this therapy, especially in combination with PRP, over a longer period.

(The present study pursued the investigation of anthropometric asymmetries regarding the length of the upper and lower limbs and the indices of body proportionality and had the fol-lowing ob-jectives: identifying the differences between the female and male groups, in the 4 age categories (7, 8, 9 and 10 years old), regarding anthropometric parameters and proportionality indicators; also tried to identify the differences in anthropometric parameters and proportional-ity indicators between the 4 age categories (7 - 10 years old) for each gender (female, respectively male). The study included 727 subjects with the age between 7-10 years, of which 383 (52.7%) fe-male and 344 (47.3%) male, the subjects being divided into four groups according to age (7, 8, 9 and 10 years old groups). The measurements aimed at the following longitudinal anthropomet-ric parameters and the calculation of proportionality ratios: height (cm); the length of the right upper limb (cm – LUL Right); the length of the left upper limb (cm – LUL Left); the length of the right lower limb (cm - LLL Right); the length of the left lower limb (cm - LLL Left); ratio of LUL Right X 100 / LLL Right; ratio of LUL Left x 100 / LLL Left; ratio of LUL Right x 100 / height; ratio of LUL Left x 100 / height; ratio of LLL Right x 100 / height; ratio of LLL_Left x 100/ height. Analyzing ccompara-tively the results recorded between the upper and lower right and left segments, we find asym-metry in all samples according to age and gender. The differ-ences between the groups of girls and boys, in all age categories, were statistically significant. The ANOVA analysis reflects statis-tically significant differences between the 4 age groups (7 - 10 years) in all anthropometric evalu-ations. The largest asymmetries between the right and left upper limb were recorded in the age category of 7 years old group; respectively, the largest asymmetries between the lower limbs were recorded in the 10 year old groups depending on gender.

In team handball, coaches can make unlimited substitutions, allowing players to enter the game at any time, even if they haven't been active on the bench. The aim of this study was to investi-gate the impact of inactivity following a warm-up on the physical performance and physiologi-cal responses of female elite team handball players. The secondary aim of the study was to ex-amine a possible connection between the examined parameters. Twelve female adult elite field handball players (n = 12; age, 31.9 ± 4.05 years; weight, 66.1 ± 5.8 kg; height 173 ± 3.8 cm and body mass index, 2.2 ± 0.2 kg/cm2) were examined. All tests were assessed in two distinct situations: (a) immediately after warm-up (T1-AW) and (b) after a 15-minute inactivity period (T2-IP). The physical tests performed were: countermovement jump with arms fixed (CMJ AF), squat jump (SJ), medicinal ball rotational throw test right (MBTT-R) and medicinal ball rotational throw test left (MBTT-L) and 10 m acceleration test (TA 10m). Heart rate (HR) was measured during warm-up and at T2-IP, while body temperature (BT), lactic acid (LA), serum glucose (G), and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) were measured at T1-AW and T2-IP. Significant differences were found at T2-IP for RSI1 (t= 2.88, p < 0.01) and PP (t= 2.24, p < 0.05), specific to CMJ AF and RSI1 (t= 3.88, p < 0.01), and for PP specific to SJ (t= 2.28, p < 0.05). All physical indices correlated positively with the physiological ones. In addition, two significant correlations were identified, one be-tween the decrease in the RSI 1-CMJ AF index and the PP-CMJ AF index (r=0.59, p

In addition to the technical and tactical aspects, the influence of physiological parameters is an important aspect for the performance of handball players. In this paper, the authors aim to highlight and analyze the influence of specific indices on efficiency in the game. For this purpose, a methodology based on experimental physiological measurements and modeling with artificial neural networks (ANN) was used. The obtained results allow to conclude that the total efficiency coefficient in the game (CECG) is influenced by the measured values of the specific physiological indices. In addition, the use of the ANN can identify opportunities to improve CECG by changing these indices and, in this case, re-placing pre-game inactivity (PB) with a program (AB) to maintain physiological parame-ters at optimal levels.

The purpose of this paper is to identify the methods of adapting the physical training for a women's handball team, during the State of Emergency declared on March 2020. Moreover, our objective is to analyse the specialised literature in order to consult the opinion of specialists regarding physical activity during the isolation caused by COVID-19, but also during competitional breaks, periods of inactivity, withdrawal from sports, etc. The players involved in our study had carried out the training, according to the individual training protocols communicated by the team’s coach, in two different environments: inside, in narrow spaces, and outside, close to their personal homes. The main objectives pursued during the isolation period at home were to minimize the effects of physical deconditioning and preparing the body for the new training plan, by using exercises for adjusting the muscles, tendons, and ligaments and exercises for preventing injuries.

Unlike the therapy of primary BMS, the treatment of secondary BMS benefits, in addition to symptomatic therapy, from the possibility of using means and methods to correct biological disturbances and/or morphological, psycho-emotional changes respectively. The use of these therapeutic means in secondary BMS is recommended to be established as a first step of therapeutic conduct. Their success is reflected in homeostasis restoring, correcting morphological and functional changes of the field, which frequently leads to no longer use prescription of symptomatic treatment.