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... Stage 5: Test Translated and Adaptated Version to children with and without disabilities, and test its test-retest reliability, seeking to provide an understandable and speciic instrum[r] ... See full document

... Results: the obese children presented greater contact area, peak pressure, maximum mean pressure and pressure-time integral, in comparison with the non-obese children, with significant [r] ... See full document

... Key words : quality of life; elderly women; urinary incontinence; physical therapy.. resumo.[r] ... See full document

... all the elderly people with little activity who had suffered falls said that their current health condition made it difficult to practice physical activity, and only 20% of them were sa[r] ... See full document

... the ideal sample size estimation was initially per- formed with the Graphpad Statmate 2.0 (Power test) soft- ware which indicated n= 16 volunteers with a power of 90% and significance level (alpha) of 0.05. all ... See full document

... objetivo: Foi avaliada a influência da Universidade Aberta da Terceira Idade – Fundação Educacional de São Carlos (UATI- FESC) e do programa de Revitalização geriátrica (REVT) sobre a qualidade de vida de adultos de ... See full document

... In conclusion, ADl performed with upper limbs, such as lifting pots with different weights, caused an increase in dynamic lung hyperinlation and dyspnea, with inspiratory capacity and[r] ... See full document

... objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of pulmonary rehabilitation performed once a week in association with exercises at home among patients with obstructive pulmonary disease, by me[r] ... See full document

... objective: to evaluate the effect of physical therapy treatment for recovering urinary continence among patients who had undergone radical prostatectomy, by using functional train[r] ... See full document

... the present study sought to investigate the effect of elbow position on the production of maximum isometric forearm supination torque as well as on the response of constant and continuous isometric control of different ... See full document

... in that case, considering the therapeutic potential produced by the wealth of stimuli generated by the horse’s movement 3,4 and the common traits of the DS child’s gait, the purpose [r] ... See full document

... According to these authors, this reduction in muscle power may be attributed to bradykinesia and may inluence the capacity to quickly generate muscle strength requested to perform d[r] ... See full document

... he Brazilian Association for Research and Graduate Stud- ies in Physical herapy (ABRAPG-Ft), founded in May 2005, is the product of a collective efort of graduate pro- grams (by research[r] ... See full document

... itness training in the physical therapy treatment of patients with ibromyalgia”, published in this journal 1 , entitled “Efects of muscle stretching and 1.. he issue is extremely releva[r] ... See full document

... On the other hand, the reduced number of specialized international journals of strong impact factor in this area is concerning, especially in the process of arranging a Qualis Periódi[r] ... See full document

... sessed young and elderly men and women, combining difer- ent kinds of platforms with EO and EC and demonstrated that body sway increased according to age and condition of the eyes, which may conirm that the elderly rely ... See full document

... Eighty-seven elderly were included in the study. Accord- ing to the inclusion criterion, those who were aged 60 years or older were selected for the study. According to the exclu- sion criteria, 26 subjects were excluded ... See full document

... of functional mobility of the elderly can decrease their social interaction and interfere in their self-esteem and in their sense of well-being. To preserve gait and mobility [r] ... See full document

... Thus, in the absence of consensus regarding the use of stretching exercises prior to muscle strengthening and given the indication of both types of exercise for the elde[r] ... See full document

... Assessment protocol: he assessment protocol was per- formed in the Cadillac equipment, which allows that a single movement be performed under diverse external mechanic overloads, ranging, for example, from the spring ... See full document