Characterization of upper limbs movements of healthy and poststroke adults.

Introduction: Upper limb (UL) motor impairment affects numerous poststroke survivors worldwide and its recovery is slow and complex. Evidence of bilateral impairment after stroke is growing, which creates the need to have a healthy reference for the quality of motor performance instead of ipsilesional UL data. Currently, kinematic analysis is considered one of the best ways to improve the understanding about the mechanisms that drive motor recovery, but a set of methodological flaws is hamper...

The Evidence of Aquatic Therapy for Painful Shoulder Disability.

The overall goal of this work was to study Aquatic Therapy for Painful ShoulderDisability. Scientific evidence is not strong. The findings are focused on thepostoperative rotator cuff lesion, upper limb dysfunction and biomechanicalcharacterization of the shoulder. What happens in silent shoulder injuries? Agingpeople adapt to their disability and look for an easier way to move. To promotehealthy aging, doctors recommend aquatic activities because of the low impacton the skeletal muscle syste...

As mulheres atletas de Mixed Martial Arts: Uma perspectiva de gênero.

I Physical activity and exercise participation of adults with spinal cord injury. Influence on health-related physical fitness, functional independence and quality of life.

This thesis aimed to understand the potential influence of physical activity and physical exercise on health-related physical fitness, functional independence and quality of life of people with chronic paraplegia, manual wheelchair users and community dwellers. Three studies were conducted: Study I reviewed the literature of upper body exercise programs that could be developed in a community setting for people with chronic paraplegia and manual wheelchair users and verified their effects on f...