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- Biofísica - Caso ClínicoPublication . Carrão, Luis Miguel Costa; Moura, Carla
- Terapia manual I - Casos ClínicosPublication . Carrão, Luis Miguel Costa; Domingues, Marina; Vital, Emanuel
- Manual de apoio às atividades práticas da UC de Avaliação e Medida do Curso de Licenciatura em FisioterapiaPublication . Cruz, Joana; Alves-Guerreiro, José; Carrão, Luís; Domingues, Marina; Morais, Nuno
- Exercise programme intervention for persons with motor ataxiaPublication . G. Silva, Maria-Raquel; Santos, Jorge; Martins, Júlio; Carrão, Luis Miguel Costa; Ribeiro, Jaime; Mesquita, Helena; Petrica, João; Serrano, João; Batista, Marco; Honório, SamuelAtaxia affects the nervous system by decreasing balance and coordination most mostly in the trunk, arms andlegs. Physical activity is used to help lowering the symptoms of this disease
- Avaliação Postural - Manual de apoio à UC de Estudo do Movimento Humano do Curso de Licenciatura em FisioterapiaPublication . Moura, Carla; Cruz, Joana; Alves-Guerreiro, José; Carrão, Luís; Morais, Nuno
- The Role of Ultrasound Imaging of Musculotendinous Structures in the Elderly PopulationPublication . Carrão, Luis Miguel Costa; Santos, Rute; Espanha, Margarida; Armada-da-Silva, Paulo; Amaral, Ana; Amado, Sandra; Almeida, Henrique de Amorim; Pascoal-Faria, Paula; Veloso, AntónioUltrasound (US) is a noninvasive and real-time method that allows the evaluating muscles and tendons. The enhanced echo-intensity (EI) on ultrasonography images of skeletal muscle is believed to reflect changes in muscle quality (MQ), and these changes accompany aging. Also related to aging, and that may more severely affect women than men, is the well-known loss of skeletal muscle mass. Often associated with the accumulation of connective tissues (e.g., adipose), it affects muscle strength and MQ and causes functional impairment. This chapter demonstrates the potential use of US imaging for assessing muscle changes associated with aging and functional decline.
- Optimizing regions for characterization of thermal images in medical applicationsPublication . Duarte, A.; Carrão, L.; Espanha, M.; Viana, T.; Freitas, D.; Bártolo, P.; Faria, P.; Almeida, H.Biomedical techniques and applications are being developed and placed at the service of clinicians. An example is medical thermography which is being used more often in the detection of certain diseases and also in pain distribution. Current thermography processing software has some limitations mainly because it is developed for general applications and doesn't allow the identification of a Region Of Interest (ROI) with a specific anatomic shape. In this research, a computational application was developed in order to aid in the characterization of thermal images. The limitations of existing software applications was overcome by designing an application that allows choosing any ROI, independently of its geometric shape, making the analysis, processing and comparison of different thermal images, easier to be used by the medical community.
- Is the Sagittal Postural Alignment Different in Normal and Dysphonic Adult Speakers?Publication . Franco, Débora; Martins, Fernando; Andrea, Mário; Fragoso, Isabel; Carrão, Luís; Teles, JúliaObjective Clinical research in the field of voice disorders, in particular functional dysphonia, has suggested abnormal laryngeal posture due to muscle adaptive changes, although specific evidence regarding body posture has been lacking. The aim of our study was to verify if there were significant differences in sagittal spine alignment between normal (41 subjects) and dysphonic speakers (33 subjects). Study Design Cross-sectional study. Methods Seventy-four adults, 35 males and 39 females, were submitted to sagittal plane photographs so that spine alignment could be analyzed through the Digimizer - MedCalc Software Ltd program. Perceptual and acoustic evaluation and nasoendoscopy were used for dysphonic judgments: normal and dysphonic speakers. Results For thoracic length curvature (TL) and for the kyphosis index (KI), a significant effect of dysphonia was observed with mean TL and KI significantly higher for the dysphonic speakers than for the normal speakers. Concerning the TL variable, a significant effect of sex was found, in which the mean of the TL was higher for males than females. The interaction between dysphonia and sex did not have a significant effect on TL and KI variables. For the lumbar length curvature variable, a significant main effect of sex was demonstrated; there was no significant main effect of dysphonia or significant sex × dysphonia interaction. Conclusions Findings indicated significant differences in some sagittal spine posture measures between normal and dysphonic speakers. Postural measures can add useful information to voice assessment protocols and should be taken into account when considering particular treatment strategies.