Os avancos tecnologicos e a medicina possibilitaram ao ser humano ser mais longevo. Entretanto, p... more Os avancos tecnologicos e a medicina possibilitaram ao ser humano ser mais longevo. Entretanto, para uma vida mais prolongada, exige-se o aumento da Qualidade de Vida (QV) da mesma, a fim de que o individuo continue na velhice, a ter autonomia em suas Atividades de Vida Diaria (AVD). Sendo assim, esta pesquisa objetivou avaliar a percepcao de QV em mulheres que estejam em processo de envelhecimento praticantes de exercicios fisicos regulares; avaliar a percepcao de QV nos diferentes dominios do World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) e correlacionar os dominios do (WHOQOL), para refletir sobre possiveis associacoes sobre os mesmos. Para tanto, levantou-se a seguinte questao problema: Qual a percepcao de QV, em mulheres que estao em processo de envelhecimento, praticantes de exercicios fisicos regulares? Para os metodos a pesquisa caracterizou -se como descritiva transversal, de analise quanti-qualitativa, como uma amostra composta por 35 ...
The utilization of easy access-to-web devices - such as online systems and applications - is revo... more The utilization of easy access-to-web devices - such as online systems and applications - is revolutionizing the contemporaneous society life. Following the trends of those new technologies, it has had been verified the need for developing facilitation mechanisms and risk predictors for the collaborator’s health integrity facing a labor environment. The objective of this study consisted in accomplish a systematic review over the process for softwares construction and validation. Therefore, a systematic literature review (January 2005 – January 2015) was done across the databases: OneFile; Scopus; MedLine/PubMed; SciVerse; ScienceDirect, upon these descriptors: instrument validation; instrument construction; online questionnaire. There were selected 11 articles for full reading once those attended the inclusion criteria, even though one had been withdrawn from the analysis due disaccordance to its own methodology. Regarding softwares management procedures, the studies clearl...
E consensual que a atividade fisica adequada e promotora da saude e da qualidade de vida (QV) de ... more E consensual que a atividade fisica adequada e promotora da saude e da qualidade de vida (QV) de seus praticantes. Alem dos beneficios psicossociais, a melhora da aptidao fisica apresenta um importante impacto nas atividades cotidianas. Dentre estas, a capacidade de equilibrio e vital, pois esta associado a ocorrencia de quedas e possiveis agravantes decorrentes. Objetivo: refletir sobre a importância do equilibrio, especialmente pela analise do comportamento do Centro de Pressao (COP), na saude e QV das pessoas. Metodos: estudo bibliografico, investigativo, que selecionou os artigos no Google Academico utilizando os seguintes unitermos: qualidade de vida, equilibrio, centro de pressao, em portugues, ingles e frances. Resultados: existem varios metodos biomecânicos (cinesiologicos, cineticos, eletromiograficos, antropometricos) utilizados em pesquisas sobre o equilibrio, especialmente na posicao ortostatica e da marcha. O uso do COP, apesar de apresentar alguns aspectos pole...
O estresse e fator central na promocao da qualidade de vida (QV) na sociedade pos moderna, notada... more O estresse e fator central na promocao da qualidade de vida (QV) na sociedade pos moderna, notadamente em grandes centros urbanos, tornando-se importante encontrar indicadores sobre como este aspecto pode influenciar a qualidade de vida da diferentes populacoes. Objetivo: averiguar se o nivel de estresse influencia na percepcao da qualidade de vida de universitarios. Metodos: A amostra, nao probabilistica e intencional foi constituida por 60 voluntarios estudantes universitarios (idade = 23,24±4,12). Os voluntarios responderam a dois questionarios, a saber; Whoqol Breve e o Estressometro, ambos validados para a populacao brasileira. Foi realizada a correlacao de Spearman entre cada dominio do Whoqol Breve e o nivel de estresse, sendo adotado p≤0,05. Os resultados indicaram um elevado indice de estresse nos graduandos de uma universidade privada do estado de Sao Paulo, sendo o dominio social o que atingiu maior pontuacao no questionario de Qv. Constatou-se tambem correlac...
Objetivo : realizar a analise cinetica comparativa do salto vertical entre usuarios de tenis de c... more Objetivo : realizar a analise cinetica comparativa do salto vertical entre usuarios de tenis de corrida (TC) e da sapatilha Five Fingers da Vibram ® (FF) a partir das variaveis: forca vertical de reacao do solo; velocidade inicial de subida; impulso; tempo de voo; energia mecânica e potencia. Metodos : amostra intencional, nao probabilistica, composta por quatro sujeitos saudaveis que realizaram tres saltos usando o TC e tres saltos usando a FF sobre uma plataforma de forca da marca EMG System com taxa de aquisicao de dados de 300 Hz. O filtro FFT (Fast Fourier Transform), passa baixa de 8 Hz foi utilizado para eliminar ruidos. Foi calculada a integral da forca em funcao do tempo para obtencao do impulso e posteriormente foram calculadas: velocidade de subida, energia mecânica e potencia atraves das equacoes da mecânica newtoniana. Resultados : o impulso com o TC teve media de 88,68 N.s e maximo de 124,55 N.s ao passo que o minimo foi de 82,19 N.s. Com a FF o impulso medio foi de 82...
Analysis, diagnosis and intervention methods in the biomechanics approach of the human movement h... more Analysis, diagnosis and intervention methods in the biomechanics approach of the human movement have shown to be a field in need of new tools concerning health sciences, sports, quality of life and related areas. Therefore, this very study has the objective of verifying standard error of the Centers of Mass (CM) on human body segments through Microsoft™ Kinect™. Methods: a single subject, height 1.87m, wingspan 1.75m, and body mass 101.10kg, was placed 3.60m far from Kinect’s™ lens. For data collecting, the subject was instructed to walk towards the forementioned hardware in a straight line until reaching the marked distance of 1.80 from it, and then return to the starting position, repeating this movement thrice. Data acquisition rate was set at 30Hz, and 14 body segments CM positions were captured on X, Y and Z axes related to the global referential. Data were filtered by FFT, 7Hz cut-off. Standard error was calculated in all of the three situations. Results: the standard ...
Introduction : Bioelectrography measures the emission of photons and electrons from live beings, ... more Introduction : Bioelectrography measures the emission of photons and electrons from live beings, and it is possible to assess peoples’ health condition through it. Objective : to compare women with breast cancer (BC), healthy sedentary women (HS) and healthy runners women (HJ) concerning emotional pressure, yin percentage (yin%) and yang percentage (yang%) through electrobiographic photos (EB). Methods : EB were collected from all of the ten fingertips from 11 sedentary women diagnosed for BC (G12), aged 59±11 years; 18 sedentary women with no BC records (G3), aged 46±15 years; and 8 runners women with no BC records (G4), aged 45±9 years. EB were obtained and processed through Bio Well hardware and software, and later had been statistically analyzed through software IBM SPSS Statistics 23. Results : higher levels of emotional pressure (EP) were observed in G4 regarding G3 and G12. Greater levels of yang% and smaller levels of yin% were observed in G12 regarding G3 and G4 Co...
Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to... more Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to specifc defnition lack and poor procedures and instruments able to measure it. In this study, QOL’s instrument validation is based upon stressor and stress triggering agents. Foreign instruments may not always reach their goals as Brazilian and Latin American cultural differences shall compromise the data quality. In Brazil, questionnaires assessing organizational environment stress are scarce and often not validated. Objective : to demonstrate the construction and validation of an easy to apply instrument gathering stress and QOL. As a question problem, it was asked: What steps are to be followed for the construction and validation of an instrument? Methods: A 25 questions instrument was divided into four areas: Work environment; social relations; leisure; sleep. Six steps for instrument validation were followed: 1- Content Validity (or construct); 2- Internal Consistency; 3- Discrimin...
The lack of low cost devices apt to collaborate both researches and clinical intervention s quali... more The lack of low cost devices apt to collaborate both researches and clinical intervention s quality for health promotion is quite significant, peculiarly in developing countries. The objective of this study consisted in calculating the accuracy of the hardware Kinect™ by Microsoft™. Methods: anthropometric data were collected from a subject in orthostatic position, at four different distances from the optical axes of the hardware, on X, Y and Z. The normality and the variances homogeinity of the data were stated through Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Barlett’s tests, in this order. It has been adopted a significance P < 0.05 for all the statistical tests, and the size effect for all of the spatial coordinates (in the four different placements) exceeded 0.80. Results: the relative error presented no significant differences in all of those distances in the three spatial axels and the accuracy averaged 0.047m; such result allows to conclude that the hardware presents satisfactory both scien...
Objetivo : Relatar a efetividade de um protocolo de atendimento desenvolvido para reduzir as taxa... more Objetivo : Relatar a efetividade de um protocolo de atendimento desenvolvido para reduzir as taxas de diagnostico tardio ou falha diagnostica, de fratura do colo do femur nos pacientes que passaram por atendimento no pronto socorro de ortopedia e traumatologia com fratura associada da diafise femoral ipsilateral, vitimas de trauma de alta energia. Material e metodos : Todos os pacientes com fratura da diafise femoral vitimas de trauma de alta energia, de janeiro a novembro de 2012, foram submetidos a um protocolo constituido de: exame fisico na sala de emergencia; realizacao de radiografia simples de bacia para avaliacao do colo femoral; avaliacao fluoroscopica intraoperatoria do quadril antes da fixacao externa do femur; radiografias nas posicoes anteroposterior e perfil do quadril nos pacientes anestesiados apos fixacao externa da diafise femoral e por fim, exame fisico do paciente durante internacao hospitalar apos fixacao da diafise femoral. Todos os pacientes foram acom...
O tabagismo tem causado importante impacto na saude publica, principalmente por levar a obito mil... more O tabagismo tem causado importante impacto na saude publica, principalmente por levar a obito milhares de pessoas e ainda, por contribuir para a migracao do usuario, para drogas mais pesadas, como; a maconha, cocaina e crack. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo: avaliar a percepcao da QV e o impacto do tabagismo em jovens universitarios. Metodos: pesquisa qualitativa de carater transversal. A amostra foi constituida por 71 alunos do curso de Educacao Fisica de uma Universidade particular no estado de Sao Paulo. Os participantes responderam a dois questionarios: WHOQOL-BREVE e o Teste de Fagerstrom, ambos validados para a populacao brasileira. Foi realizada a estatistica descritiva para os resultados do WHOQOL-BREVE, onde as medias dos Dominios foram: Dominio fisico 70,27 pontos; psicologico 71,15 pontos; relacoes sociais 70,42 pontos; meio ambiente 63,75 pontos e para Fagerstrom 1,38. A correlacao de Spearman foi realizada entre os diferentes dominios do WHOQOL-BREVE e resultado do Fa...
Due to the importance of both developing and validating new low cost analysis, diagnosis and int... more Due to the importance of both developing and validating new low cost analysis, diagnosis and intervention devices for several areas, since rehabilitation until high performance training environments. The objective of this study is to determine the value for RMS error of the CM of body segments. Methods: anthropometric data were collected from a volunteer standing still in orthostatic position. Using Kinect™ for Microsoft™, the X, Y and Z coordinates were acquired. From there on, values of reference and values calculated by the device were taken into consideration. Results: the values calculated by the device demonstrated to be consisting through the different moments over data collects as well as RMS error values were satisfactory due to their low percentage, subsidizing favorably the usage of such device as a tool for analysis, diagnosis and intervention over several health care areas, such as physical education, physiotherapy and medicine among others.
Technological advances that involve computing and artificial intelligence (AI) have led to advanc... more Technological advances that involve computing and artificial intelligence (AI) have led to advances in analysis methods. Fuzzy logic (FL) serves as a qualitative interpretation tool for AI. The objective of this systematic review is to investigate the methods of human movement (HM) analysis using AI through FL to understand the characteristics of the movement of healthy people. To identify relevant studies published up to April 19, 2019, we conducted a study of the PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and IEEE Xplore databases. We included studies that evaluated HM through AI using FL in healthy people. A total of 951 articles were examined, of which six were selected because they met the criteria presented in the methods. The protocols had high heterogeneity, yet all articles selected presented statistically satisfactory results, in addition to low errors or a false positive index. Only one selected article presented protocol applicability within the free-living model. Generally, AI using FL is a good tool to help assess HM in healthy people, but the model still needs new data acquisition entries to make it applicability within the free-living model.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been addressed in several studies by presentin... more Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been addressed in several studies by presenting benefits in the post patient Vascular Accident (CVA), which features mostly sequelae associated with a functional deficit and motor control, justifying physiotherapy in all the phases of the rehabilitation process. This study has the objective of evaluating the effects of various physical therapy techniques combined with the ETCC in post stroke patients. clinical-trials were considered and randomized controlled trials indexed in Bireme databases, PubMed and Cochrane between 2010 and 2015 in English. We found 216 articles and 10 selected by suprirem the inclusion criteria, which addressed the conventional physical therapy techniques, containment Therapy-Induced, Virtual Reality and Robotics. All articles reported improvement with the techniques discussed during physiotherapy and gains even more significant when associated with tDCS.
A large number of people with lower back pain (LBP) attempt easing their lower back pain through ... more A large number of people with lower back pain (LBP) attempt easing their lower back pain through Pilates Method™ assistance. LBP represents a severe public health issue with economic, social, corporate and familiar impact, affecting quality of life (QOL). Objective : assessing the effectiveness of a single regular session of Pilates Method™ exercises on the LBP perception of clinically healthy women. Method : this research is characterized as a quasi-experimental study. The intentional and non probabilistic convenience sample consisted of 10 women self reported healthy clinically, non familiar to Pilates Method™ exercises, and presenting complaints related to different levels of LBP subjective perceptions. Five subjects were assigned into two different groups accordingly their weekly physical volume: Physically Active (GA), age 39.20 + 4,21(years), BMI 24.30 + 3.67(kg/m 2 ); and Sedentary (GS), age 40.80 + 3.27(years), BMI 26.24 + 2.05(kg/m 2 ). The studied intervention consisted in...
The total hip arthroplasty (THA) stands as one of the best well succeded orthopedic procedures. D... more The total hip arthroplasty (THA) stands as one of the best well succeded orthopedic procedures. Despite of that, hip surgery domain still faces challenges on a regular basis. The positioning of THA components related to femur and pelvis is important for the surgery prognostic. Assessing both acetabular incline and anteversion angles during surgical programming will benefit THA procedure. Objectives: To evaluate the positioning of acetabular angles in ATQ, measuring its inclination and anteversion. To compare the results with previous studies of literature. Methods: By Shapiro Wilk and Bartlett tests were found normality and homogeneity of the variances. The t test was used to compare the findings with values found in literature. Thirty six male subjects who underwent THA were assessed through pelvis radiographies (AP), where the acetabular incline and anteversion angles have been trigonometric calculated. Results: 36 male subjects THA, being 61% of those on the left side of the body...
A eletromiografia (emg) e a mecanomiografia (mmg) vem sendo uma das tecnicas mais utilizadas para... more A eletromiografia (emg) e a mecanomiografia (mmg) vem sendo uma das tecnicas mais utilizadas para o estudo das funcoes musculares. o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o comportamento dos sinais emg, mmg e da producao de forca quanto a viabilidade do uso simultâneo destas tecnicas para se detectar o surgimento do processo de fadiga neuromuscular. por meio do exercicio curl-up aplicamos um protocolo de contracao submaxima isometrica. participaram da pesquisa 6 sujeitos adultos jovens saudaveis do genero masculino. foi extraida dos sinais a root-mean square (rms). a emg apresentou um aumento do momento inicial ao momento final da tarefa, mediana (inicial: 0,05; final: 0,68) e desvio padrao (inicial: 0,81; final: 0,80). a mmg tambem demonstrou aumento, nao significante para p < 0,05, ja a forca diminuiu 27,84% do comeco ao fim da tarefa.C oncluiu-se que o uso concomitante das tres tecnicas foi eficaz para a deteccao da fadiga neuromuscular na amostra.
Objectives: To evaluate the flexibility of two groups of children through two protocols: 1) kinem... more Objectives: To evaluate the flexibility of two groups of children through two protocols: 1) kinematic analysis to determine the angles of the hip and shoulder girdle, in children who participate in a sport initiation program (experimental group) and children attending only physical education classes (control group). 2) The Wells test also for both groups. Methods: bidimensional kinematic analysis; through the filming of the realization of task (Wells test) and subsequent digitalization of the joint points to determine the angles. The sample consisted of 46 children 9-12 years old, male, with a mean age of 10.41 (± 1.08) years, 25 volunteers from the State Schools that participated in physical education classes and 21 students from Basketball School. Results: in Wells test were 0.23 M (± 0.06) for participants in the sport initiation program and 0,26m (± 0.06) for school students. This evaluation protocol can bring erroneous data because the rigidity of the column may be being compen...
Objetivo : Comparar a evolucao clinica e radiografica de pacientes com idade inferior a 65 anos, ... more Objetivo : Comparar a evolucao clinica e radiografica de pacientes com idade inferior a 65 anos, submetidos a dois diferentes metodos de fixacao das fraturas do colo do femur. Material e metodos : Foram operados 16 pacientes adultos com idade inferior a 65 anos com media de idade de 45,06 anos, entre marco e novembro de 2012. A escolha do metodo de fixacao foi randomizada e o acompanhamento no pos-operatorio realizado durante seis meses, aplicando-se os escores WOMAC e Harris Hip adaptado com seguimento radiografico da fratura. Resultados : Nao houve diferenca significativa entre os escores Harris Hip adaptado e WOMAC, nos dois metodos de fixacao estudados. De todos os pacientes estudados, um caso evoluiu com retardo e outro com nao consolidacao, ambos com a utilizacao de parafusos canulados. Conclusao : Nao ocorreu uma diferenca estatisticamente significante entre as sinteses estudadas neste trabalho
Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to... more Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to specifc defnition lack and poor procedures and instruments able to measure it. In this study, QOL’s instrument validation is based upon stressor and stress triggering agents. Foreign instruments may not always reach their goals as Brazilian and Latin American cultural differences shall compromise the data quality. In Brazil, questionnaires assessing organizational environment stress are scarce and often not validated. Objective: to demonstrate the construction and validation of an easy to apply instrument gathering stress and QOL. As a question problem, it was asked: What steps are to be followed for the construction and validation of an instrument? Methods: A 25 questions instrument was divided into four areas: Work environment; social relations; leisure; sleep. Six steps for instrument validation were followed: 1- Content Validity (or construct); 2- Internal Consistency; 3- Discrimina...
Os avancos tecnologicos e a medicina possibilitaram ao ser humano ser mais longevo. Entretanto, p... more Os avancos tecnologicos e a medicina possibilitaram ao ser humano ser mais longevo. Entretanto, para uma vida mais prolongada, exige-se o aumento da Qualidade de Vida (QV) da mesma, a fim de que o individuo continue na velhice, a ter autonomia em suas Atividades de Vida Diaria (AVD). Sendo assim, esta pesquisa objetivou avaliar a percepcao de QV em mulheres que estejam em processo de envelhecimento praticantes de exercicios fisicos regulares; avaliar a percepcao de QV nos diferentes dominios do World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) e correlacionar os dominios do (WHOQOL), para refletir sobre possiveis associacoes sobre os mesmos. Para tanto, levantou-se a seguinte questao problema: Qual a percepcao de QV, em mulheres que estao em processo de envelhecimento, praticantes de exercicios fisicos regulares? Para os metodos a pesquisa caracterizou -se como descritiva transversal, de analise quanti-qualitativa, como uma amostra composta por 35 ...
The utilization of easy access-to-web devices - such as online systems and applications - is revo... more The utilization of easy access-to-web devices - such as online systems and applications - is revolutionizing the contemporaneous society life. Following the trends of those new technologies, it has had been verified the need for developing facilitation mechanisms and risk predictors for the collaborator’s health integrity facing a labor environment. The objective of this study consisted in accomplish a systematic review over the process for softwares construction and validation. Therefore, a systematic literature review (January 2005 – January 2015) was done across the databases: OneFile; Scopus; MedLine/PubMed; SciVerse; ScienceDirect, upon these descriptors: instrument validation; instrument construction; online questionnaire. There were selected 11 articles for full reading once those attended the inclusion criteria, even though one had been withdrawn from the analysis due disaccordance to its own methodology. Regarding softwares management procedures, the studies clearl...
E consensual que a atividade fisica adequada e promotora da saude e da qualidade de vida (QV) de ... more E consensual que a atividade fisica adequada e promotora da saude e da qualidade de vida (QV) de seus praticantes. Alem dos beneficios psicossociais, a melhora da aptidao fisica apresenta um importante impacto nas atividades cotidianas. Dentre estas, a capacidade de equilibrio e vital, pois esta associado a ocorrencia de quedas e possiveis agravantes decorrentes. Objetivo: refletir sobre a importância do equilibrio, especialmente pela analise do comportamento do Centro de Pressao (COP), na saude e QV das pessoas. Metodos: estudo bibliografico, investigativo, que selecionou os artigos no Google Academico utilizando os seguintes unitermos: qualidade de vida, equilibrio, centro de pressao, em portugues, ingles e frances. Resultados: existem varios metodos biomecânicos (cinesiologicos, cineticos, eletromiograficos, antropometricos) utilizados em pesquisas sobre o equilibrio, especialmente na posicao ortostatica e da marcha. O uso do COP, apesar de apresentar alguns aspectos pole...
O estresse e fator central na promocao da qualidade de vida (QV) na sociedade pos moderna, notada... more O estresse e fator central na promocao da qualidade de vida (QV) na sociedade pos moderna, notadamente em grandes centros urbanos, tornando-se importante encontrar indicadores sobre como este aspecto pode influenciar a qualidade de vida da diferentes populacoes. Objetivo: averiguar se o nivel de estresse influencia na percepcao da qualidade de vida de universitarios. Metodos: A amostra, nao probabilistica e intencional foi constituida por 60 voluntarios estudantes universitarios (idade = 23,24±4,12). Os voluntarios responderam a dois questionarios, a saber; Whoqol Breve e o Estressometro, ambos validados para a populacao brasileira. Foi realizada a correlacao de Spearman entre cada dominio do Whoqol Breve e o nivel de estresse, sendo adotado p≤0,05. Os resultados indicaram um elevado indice de estresse nos graduandos de uma universidade privada do estado de Sao Paulo, sendo o dominio social o que atingiu maior pontuacao no questionario de Qv. Constatou-se tambem correlac...
Objetivo : realizar a analise cinetica comparativa do salto vertical entre usuarios de tenis de c... more Objetivo : realizar a analise cinetica comparativa do salto vertical entre usuarios de tenis de corrida (TC) e da sapatilha Five Fingers da Vibram ® (FF) a partir das variaveis: forca vertical de reacao do solo; velocidade inicial de subida; impulso; tempo de voo; energia mecânica e potencia. Metodos : amostra intencional, nao probabilistica, composta por quatro sujeitos saudaveis que realizaram tres saltos usando o TC e tres saltos usando a FF sobre uma plataforma de forca da marca EMG System com taxa de aquisicao de dados de 300 Hz. O filtro FFT (Fast Fourier Transform), passa baixa de 8 Hz foi utilizado para eliminar ruidos. Foi calculada a integral da forca em funcao do tempo para obtencao do impulso e posteriormente foram calculadas: velocidade de subida, energia mecânica e potencia atraves das equacoes da mecânica newtoniana. Resultados : o impulso com o TC teve media de 88,68 N.s e maximo de 124,55 N.s ao passo que o minimo foi de 82,19 N.s. Com a FF o impulso medio foi de 82...
Analysis, diagnosis and intervention methods in the biomechanics approach of the human movement h... more Analysis, diagnosis and intervention methods in the biomechanics approach of the human movement have shown to be a field in need of new tools concerning health sciences, sports, quality of life and related areas. Therefore, this very study has the objective of verifying standard error of the Centers of Mass (CM) on human body segments through Microsoft™ Kinect™. Methods: a single subject, height 1.87m, wingspan 1.75m, and body mass 101.10kg, was placed 3.60m far from Kinect’s™ lens. For data collecting, the subject was instructed to walk towards the forementioned hardware in a straight line until reaching the marked distance of 1.80 from it, and then return to the starting position, repeating this movement thrice. Data acquisition rate was set at 30Hz, and 14 body segments CM positions were captured on X, Y and Z axes related to the global referential. Data were filtered by FFT, 7Hz cut-off. Standard error was calculated in all of the three situations. Results: the standard ...
Introduction : Bioelectrography measures the emission of photons and electrons from live beings, ... more Introduction : Bioelectrography measures the emission of photons and electrons from live beings, and it is possible to assess peoples’ health condition through it. Objective : to compare women with breast cancer (BC), healthy sedentary women (HS) and healthy runners women (HJ) concerning emotional pressure, yin percentage (yin%) and yang percentage (yang%) through electrobiographic photos (EB). Methods : EB were collected from all of the ten fingertips from 11 sedentary women diagnosed for BC (G12), aged 59±11 years; 18 sedentary women with no BC records (G3), aged 46±15 years; and 8 runners women with no BC records (G4), aged 45±9 years. EB were obtained and processed through Bio Well hardware and software, and later had been statistically analyzed through software IBM SPSS Statistics 23. Results : higher levels of emotional pressure (EP) were observed in G4 regarding G3 and G12. Greater levels of yang% and smaller levels of yin% were observed in G12 regarding G3 and G4 Co...
Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to... more Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to specifc defnition lack and poor procedures and instruments able to measure it. In this study, QOL’s instrument validation is based upon stressor and stress triggering agents. Foreign instruments may not always reach their goals as Brazilian and Latin American cultural differences shall compromise the data quality. In Brazil, questionnaires assessing organizational environment stress are scarce and often not validated. Objective : to demonstrate the construction and validation of an easy to apply instrument gathering stress and QOL. As a question problem, it was asked: What steps are to be followed for the construction and validation of an instrument? Methods: A 25 questions instrument was divided into four areas: Work environment; social relations; leisure; sleep. Six steps for instrument validation were followed: 1- Content Validity (or construct); 2- Internal Consistency; 3- Discrimin...
The lack of low cost devices apt to collaborate both researches and clinical intervention s quali... more The lack of low cost devices apt to collaborate both researches and clinical intervention s quality for health promotion is quite significant, peculiarly in developing countries. The objective of this study consisted in calculating the accuracy of the hardware Kinect™ by Microsoft™. Methods: anthropometric data were collected from a subject in orthostatic position, at four different distances from the optical axes of the hardware, on X, Y and Z. The normality and the variances homogeinity of the data were stated through Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Barlett’s tests, in this order. It has been adopted a significance P < 0.05 for all the statistical tests, and the size effect for all of the spatial coordinates (in the four different placements) exceeded 0.80. Results: the relative error presented no significant differences in all of those distances in the three spatial axels and the accuracy averaged 0.047m; such result allows to conclude that the hardware presents satisfactory both scien...
Objetivo : Relatar a efetividade de um protocolo de atendimento desenvolvido para reduzir as taxa... more Objetivo : Relatar a efetividade de um protocolo de atendimento desenvolvido para reduzir as taxas de diagnostico tardio ou falha diagnostica, de fratura do colo do femur nos pacientes que passaram por atendimento no pronto socorro de ortopedia e traumatologia com fratura associada da diafise femoral ipsilateral, vitimas de trauma de alta energia. Material e metodos : Todos os pacientes com fratura da diafise femoral vitimas de trauma de alta energia, de janeiro a novembro de 2012, foram submetidos a um protocolo constituido de: exame fisico na sala de emergencia; realizacao de radiografia simples de bacia para avaliacao do colo femoral; avaliacao fluoroscopica intraoperatoria do quadril antes da fixacao externa do femur; radiografias nas posicoes anteroposterior e perfil do quadril nos pacientes anestesiados apos fixacao externa da diafise femoral e por fim, exame fisico do paciente durante internacao hospitalar apos fixacao da diafise femoral. Todos os pacientes foram acom...
O tabagismo tem causado importante impacto na saude publica, principalmente por levar a obito mil... more O tabagismo tem causado importante impacto na saude publica, principalmente por levar a obito milhares de pessoas e ainda, por contribuir para a migracao do usuario, para drogas mais pesadas, como; a maconha, cocaina e crack. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo: avaliar a percepcao da QV e o impacto do tabagismo em jovens universitarios. Metodos: pesquisa qualitativa de carater transversal. A amostra foi constituida por 71 alunos do curso de Educacao Fisica de uma Universidade particular no estado de Sao Paulo. Os participantes responderam a dois questionarios: WHOQOL-BREVE e o Teste de Fagerstrom, ambos validados para a populacao brasileira. Foi realizada a estatistica descritiva para os resultados do WHOQOL-BREVE, onde as medias dos Dominios foram: Dominio fisico 70,27 pontos; psicologico 71,15 pontos; relacoes sociais 70,42 pontos; meio ambiente 63,75 pontos e para Fagerstrom 1,38. A correlacao de Spearman foi realizada entre os diferentes dominios do WHOQOL-BREVE e resultado do Fa...
Due to the importance of both developing and validating new low cost analysis, diagnosis and int... more Due to the importance of both developing and validating new low cost analysis, diagnosis and intervention devices for several areas, since rehabilitation until high performance training environments. The objective of this study is to determine the value for RMS error of the CM of body segments. Methods: anthropometric data were collected from a volunteer standing still in orthostatic position. Using Kinect™ for Microsoft™, the X, Y and Z coordinates were acquired. From there on, values of reference and values calculated by the device were taken into consideration. Results: the values calculated by the device demonstrated to be consisting through the different moments over data collects as well as RMS error values were satisfactory due to their low percentage, subsidizing favorably the usage of such device as a tool for analysis, diagnosis and intervention over several health care areas, such as physical education, physiotherapy and medicine among others.
Technological advances that involve computing and artificial intelligence (AI) have led to advanc... more Technological advances that involve computing and artificial intelligence (AI) have led to advances in analysis methods. Fuzzy logic (FL) serves as a qualitative interpretation tool for AI. The objective of this systematic review is to investigate the methods of human movement (HM) analysis using AI through FL to understand the characteristics of the movement of healthy people. To identify relevant studies published up to April 19, 2019, we conducted a study of the PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and IEEE Xplore databases. We included studies that evaluated HM through AI using FL in healthy people. A total of 951 articles were examined, of which six were selected because they met the criteria presented in the methods. The protocols had high heterogeneity, yet all articles selected presented statistically satisfactory results, in addition to low errors or a false positive index. Only one selected article presented protocol applicability within the free-living model. Generally, AI using FL is a good tool to help assess HM in healthy people, but the model still needs new data acquisition entries to make it applicability within the free-living model.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been addressed in several studies by presentin... more Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been addressed in several studies by presenting benefits in the post patient Vascular Accident (CVA), which features mostly sequelae associated with a functional deficit and motor control, justifying physiotherapy in all the phases of the rehabilitation process. This study has the objective of evaluating the effects of various physical therapy techniques combined with the ETCC in post stroke patients. clinical-trials were considered and randomized controlled trials indexed in Bireme databases, PubMed and Cochrane between 2010 and 2015 in English. We found 216 articles and 10 selected by suprirem the inclusion criteria, which addressed the conventional physical therapy techniques, containment Therapy-Induced, Virtual Reality and Robotics. All articles reported improvement with the techniques discussed during physiotherapy and gains even more significant when associated with tDCS.
A large number of people with lower back pain (LBP) attempt easing their lower back pain through ... more A large number of people with lower back pain (LBP) attempt easing their lower back pain through Pilates Method™ assistance. LBP represents a severe public health issue with economic, social, corporate and familiar impact, affecting quality of life (QOL). Objective : assessing the effectiveness of a single regular session of Pilates Method™ exercises on the LBP perception of clinically healthy women. Method : this research is characterized as a quasi-experimental study. The intentional and non probabilistic convenience sample consisted of 10 women self reported healthy clinically, non familiar to Pilates Method™ exercises, and presenting complaints related to different levels of LBP subjective perceptions. Five subjects were assigned into two different groups accordingly their weekly physical volume: Physically Active (GA), age 39.20 + 4,21(years), BMI 24.30 + 3.67(kg/m 2 ); and Sedentary (GS), age 40.80 + 3.27(years), BMI 26.24 + 2.05(kg/m 2 ). The studied intervention consisted in...
The total hip arthroplasty (THA) stands as one of the best well succeded orthopedic procedures. D... more The total hip arthroplasty (THA) stands as one of the best well succeded orthopedic procedures. Despite of that, hip surgery domain still faces challenges on a regular basis. The positioning of THA components related to femur and pelvis is important for the surgery prognostic. Assessing both acetabular incline and anteversion angles during surgical programming will benefit THA procedure. Objectives: To evaluate the positioning of acetabular angles in ATQ, measuring its inclination and anteversion. To compare the results with previous studies of literature. Methods: By Shapiro Wilk and Bartlett tests were found normality and homogeneity of the variances. The t test was used to compare the findings with values found in literature. Thirty six male subjects who underwent THA were assessed through pelvis radiographies (AP), where the acetabular incline and anteversion angles have been trigonometric calculated. Results: 36 male subjects THA, being 61% of those on the left side of the body...
A eletromiografia (emg) e a mecanomiografia (mmg) vem sendo uma das tecnicas mais utilizadas para... more A eletromiografia (emg) e a mecanomiografia (mmg) vem sendo uma das tecnicas mais utilizadas para o estudo das funcoes musculares. o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o comportamento dos sinais emg, mmg e da producao de forca quanto a viabilidade do uso simultâneo destas tecnicas para se detectar o surgimento do processo de fadiga neuromuscular. por meio do exercicio curl-up aplicamos um protocolo de contracao submaxima isometrica. participaram da pesquisa 6 sujeitos adultos jovens saudaveis do genero masculino. foi extraida dos sinais a root-mean square (rms). a emg apresentou um aumento do momento inicial ao momento final da tarefa, mediana (inicial: 0,05; final: 0,68) e desvio padrao (inicial: 0,81; final: 0,80). a mmg tambem demonstrou aumento, nao significante para p < 0,05, ja a forca diminuiu 27,84% do comeco ao fim da tarefa.C oncluiu-se que o uso concomitante das tres tecnicas foi eficaz para a deteccao da fadiga neuromuscular na amostra.
Objectives: To evaluate the flexibility of two groups of children through two protocols: 1) kinem... more Objectives: To evaluate the flexibility of two groups of children through two protocols: 1) kinematic analysis to determine the angles of the hip and shoulder girdle, in children who participate in a sport initiation program (experimental group) and children attending only physical education classes (control group). 2) The Wells test also for both groups. Methods: bidimensional kinematic analysis; through the filming of the realization of task (Wells test) and subsequent digitalization of the joint points to determine the angles. The sample consisted of 46 children 9-12 years old, male, with a mean age of 10.41 (± 1.08) years, 25 volunteers from the State Schools that participated in physical education classes and 21 students from Basketball School. Results: in Wells test were 0.23 M (± 0.06) for participants in the sport initiation program and 0,26m (± 0.06) for school students. This evaluation protocol can bring erroneous data because the rigidity of the column may be being compen...
Objetivo : Comparar a evolucao clinica e radiografica de pacientes com idade inferior a 65 anos, ... more Objetivo : Comparar a evolucao clinica e radiografica de pacientes com idade inferior a 65 anos, submetidos a dois diferentes metodos de fixacao das fraturas do colo do femur. Material e metodos : Foram operados 16 pacientes adultos com idade inferior a 65 anos com media de idade de 45,06 anos, entre marco e novembro de 2012. A escolha do metodo de fixacao foi randomizada e o acompanhamento no pos-operatorio realizado durante seis meses, aplicando-se os escores WOMAC e Harris Hip adaptado com seguimento radiografico da fratura. Resultados : Nao houve diferenca significativa entre os escores Harris Hip adaptado e WOMAC, nos dois metodos de fixacao estudados. De todos os pacientes estudados, um caso evoluiu com retardo e outro com nao consolidacao, ambos com a utilizacao de parafusos canulados. Conclusao : Nao ocorreu uma diferenca estatisticamente significante entre as sinteses estudadas neste trabalho
Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to... more Introduction: Quality of life (QOL) may refer to a conceptual and quite complex discussion due to specifc defnition lack and poor procedures and instruments able to measure it. In this study, QOL’s instrument validation is based upon stressor and stress triggering agents. Foreign instruments may not always reach their goals as Brazilian and Latin American cultural differences shall compromise the data quality. In Brazil, questionnaires assessing organizational environment stress are scarce and often not validated. Objective: to demonstrate the construction and validation of an easy to apply instrument gathering stress and QOL. As a question problem, it was asked: What steps are to be followed for the construction and validation of an instrument? Methods: A 25 questions instrument was divided into four areas: Work environment; social relations; leisure; sleep. Six steps for instrument validation were followed: 1- Content Validity (or construct); 2- Internal Consistency; 3- Discrimina...
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