Kinesiology ReviewPub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-12-22DOI: 10.1123/kr.2025-0063
Lynn Worobey
{"title":"Rethinking Movement: From Capacity to Context.","authors":"Lynn Worobey","doi":"10.1123/kr.2025-0063","DOIUrl":"10.1123/kr.2025-0063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mobility is often evaluated based on what a person can do in clinical settings, particularly in rehabilitation contexts. However, clinical assessments rarely capture real-world mobility or the environmental, psychological, and behavioral factors that shape it. Framed in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, in this paper I explore the dual role of movement, as both a target outcome of rehabilitation and a predictive biomarker of recovery and adaptation. Using spinal cord injury as a case example, current approaches emphasizing capacity are highlighted in how they fall short of understanding actual performance. Drawing on predictive modeling, pilot data, and engagement with individuals with lived experience, a conceptualization of mobility is presented that prioritizes context, choice, and real-life performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"116-120"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13225860/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148151256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2022 Janus 2.0 Conference Papers: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"K. A. Richards, K. Graber, Amelia M Woods","doi":"10.1123/kr.2024-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2024-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"29 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141058204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Graber, Amelia M Woods, Christopher J. Kinder, K. A. Richards
{"title":"From the Past and Into the Future: Lessons From Janus 2.0","authors":"K. Graber, Amelia M Woods, Christopher J. Kinder, K. A. Richards","doi":"10.1123/kr.2024-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2024-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"15 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141058482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kinesiology ReviewPub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1123/kr.2023-0048
Ang Chen
{"title":"Curriculum Alignment: Doing Kinesiology as We Mean It.","authors":"Ang Chen","doi":"10.1123/kr.2023-0048","DOIUrl":"10.1123/kr.2023-0048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on the lessons learned from history and articulation of paradigm change in science, this article clarifies the concept of curriculum alignment and describes the risk of curriculum disalignment between school physical education and kinesiology. Through contextualizing kinesiology as an integrated science, it explains the difference between a discipline and a field (subdiscipline) and argues that K-12 physical education is an integral and indispensable component of kinesiology. The article provides detailed discussions about the historical reasons/events that might have led to the curriculum disalignment and the ways the disalignment can be understood and addressed. Based on the analysis, a four-pillar framework (science, health, culture, and education) is proposed as a platform for \"doing kinesiology\" and a way to address the curriculum disalignment crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"105-115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12629192/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145565833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kinesiology ReviewPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1123/kr.2022-0029
Ang Chen
{"title":"Kinesiology and Physical Education: A Curriculum (Dis)Alignment Perspective.","authors":"Ang Chen","doi":"10.1123/kr.2022-0029","DOIUrl":"10.1123/kr.2022-0029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This conceptual article focuses on the curriculum disalignment issue that seems to be a contributor to the marginalization of K-12 physical education. Through a brief historical review of events, especially the 1991 Critical Crossroads conference, the article explores and explains reasons that the future of K-12 physical education should rely on developing health-centered, concept-based curricula consistent with kinesiology science. In a major section, the article documents a 20-year effort and findings of curriculum intervention research in elementary, middle, and high schools to advocate and deliberate the need for a curriculum reform that should center on aligning physical education with kinesiology science. Implications of the kinesiology-physical education curriculum alignment to student learning are emphasized, and a paradigm change perspective to curriculum reform is discussed as a path to revitalize K-12 physical education.</p>","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"135-143"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13095230/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79551824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating and Implementing Kinesiology Research Into Society","authors":"Ronald Zernicke, D. Perrin","doi":"10.1123/kr.2022-0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2022-0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73602660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Nettlefold, Samantha M. Gray, J. Sims-Gould, H. McKay
{"title":"Overview of Translational Research, Implementation Science, and Scale-Up","authors":"L. Nettlefold, Samantha M. Gray, J. Sims-Gould, H. McKay","doi":"10.1123/kr.2022-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2022-0035","url":null,"abstract":"Lindsay Nettlefold, Samantha M. Gray, Joanie Sims-Gould, and Heather A. McKay Active Aging Research Team, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Aging and Population Health Lab, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83076206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum. Physical Activity and Health Equity for Middle-Aged and Older Adults","authors":"","doi":"10.1123/kr.2023-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2023-0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74833776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Overview of Dissemination and Implementation Science in Physical Activity and Health Promotion","authors":"P. Estabrooks","doi":"10.1123/kr.2022-0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2022-0044","url":null,"abstract":"Dissemination and implementation (D&I) science can be described as the scientific study of the strategies and mechanisms by which scientific evidence is disseminated and implemented in community or clinical settings to improve outcomes for a specified population. This paper provides an overview of D&I science as it relates to health and physical activity promotion. It provides definitions and specifications for D&I strategies and an overview of the types of theories, models, and frameworks used to advance this work. Finally, this review demonstrated the need for physical activity researchers to (a) test relationships between changes in D&I explanatory constructs and D&I outcomes; (b) determine the utility of D&I strategies, based on explanatory theories, to improve intervention reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance; (c) develop strategies to take interventions to scale and reduce disparities; and (d) develop interventions and D&I strategies, in collaboration with those who would ultimately be responsible for implementation.","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"173 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72505226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rafael A. Alamilla, N. Keith, Rebecca E. Hasson, G. Welk, D. Riebe, S. Wilcox, R. Pate
{"title":"Future Directions for Transforming Kinesiology Implementation Science Into Society","authors":"Rafael A. Alamilla, N. Keith, Rebecca E. Hasson, G. Welk, D. Riebe, S. Wilcox, R. Pate","doi":"10.1123/kr.2022-0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2022-0042","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity policy can play a crucial role in ensuring that individuals, communities, and societies can obtain the wide range of health benefits associated with regular physical activity participation. Policies such as Title IX, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and state physical education laws have all increased opportunities for millions of Americans to participate in physical activity. With that said, how policies are developed and implemented vary considerably. The purpose of this manuscript is to contrast an academic conceptual framework with a pragmatic approach for policy implementation. In an ideal world, polices would be developed from foundational knowledge, scaled up to community-level interventions, and implemented in a sequential fashion. However, policy implementation is a disorderly process that requires a practical methodology. The National Physical Activity Plan encompasses strategies and tactics across 10 key societal sectors—and highlights the disorderly process of policy implementation across the various sectors.","PeriodicalId":37468,"journal":{"name":"Kinesiology Review","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79485330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}