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... Because of the importance of the clinimetric properties of a test, this study aimed to investigate the bridge test with unilateral knee extension in the assessment of pelvic transverse[r] ... See full document

... Contextualização: O processo de envelhecimento e suas consequentes alterações morfofisiológicas desencadeiam redução da habilidade regenerativa das células satélites, redução da vascularização tecidual e aumento da ... See full document

... Background: In 2001the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a classification system for understanding functioning and human disability: the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The ... See full document

... he results of this review demonstrated that regardless of the UI type and the treatment modality applied, physical therapy interventions appear to promote beneits in inconti- nent older women, as an improvement in ... See full document

... For this reason, we decided to comprehensively assess the response to exercise to confirm a submaximal test (i.e. tread6MWT) could be used as a reasonable method to evaluate functiona[r] ... See full document

... ANOVA two-way with Holm-Sidak post-hoc test (p<0.05) was used to analyse the heart rate variation (∆HR); Valsalva index (VI); MEP index (MEPI), and the estimated workload of the mane[r] ... See full document

... Our study showed that, in patients with high APACHE II values, minimal PS values can affect the RSBI value and that the best method of evaluating the ventilatory condition of a patien[r] ... See full document

... PRIMS is an attempt to effectively change healthcare practice at these hospitals, with repercussions for the entire Brazilian hospital system, such as: integrated health team performanc[r] ... See full document

... Conclusions: The Brazilian version of the QEC has appropriate clinimetric properties for measuring different levels of exposure to ergonomics risk factors and can now be used by Brazi[r] ... See full document

... Objective: To undertake a systematic review of randomized and quasi-randomized studies that assessed the effects of breathing exercises on the recovery of pulmonary function and preve[r] ... See full document

... In the present study, we found a greater association between hip stiffness and work than between stiffness and peak torque of the lateral rotators (r=0.769 and 0.707, respectively). M[r] ... See full document

... In the attempt to investigate the efect of a period of stretching (12 minutes) in the treatment of the denervated muscle during the irst week after denervation, recent studies from ou[r] ... See full document

... 5. Tweed WA, Phua WT, Chong KY, Lim E, Lee TL. Tidal volume, lung hyperinflation and arterial oxygenation during general anaesthesia. Anaesth Intensive Care. 1993;21(6):806-10. 6. Kravitz RM. Airway clearance in Duchenne ... See full document

... Forty-ive healthy older individuals (25 female; 20 male; 67.5 ± 2 years old) completed the protocol: the CG (66 ± 6 years old; n=13) attended a one-hour seminar on healthy living ever[r] ... See full document

... commitment to the rehabilitation program (more than three absences, consecutively or not); dengue fever; and medication use (not only due to shoulder pain, but migraine, ibromyalgia and low back pain). hus, the inal ... See full document

... Objective: To evaluate and to compare the cardiorespiratory and metabolic variables at the ventilatory anaerobic threshold level (AT) and at submaximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing[r] ... See full document

... hirty adults (14 men and 16 women), all right-handed, ranging in age from 18 to 29 years (mean age: 21.7; SD: 2.88) participated in the present study. hey were recruited from schools for individuals with DS. he ... See full document

... screen the risk of falls in a one-year retrospective study in- volving Japanese elderly individuals at adult daycare centers, in which the majority of participants exhibited disability and frailty. he higher cutof point ... See full document

... Background: Optoelectronic plethysmography (OEP) is an innovative method of indirect measurement of pulmonary ventilation, capable of breath-by-breath, three-dimensional, real time ass[r] ... See full document

... When the Federal Registration Board of Physical herapy (COFFITO), through its irst president Sônia Gusman, in 1985, issued the resolution 60 and, later, the resolutions 97, 201 and 209[r] ... See full document