São Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Four weeks of exercise regimen for sedentary workers with rounded shoulder posture: a randomized controlled study.
Rounded shoulder (RS) posture causes neck and shoulder pathologies. Mechanical correction taping (MCT) is often incorporated into postural corrective therapies; however, its effects on muscle stiffness are unclear. ⋯ Scapular MCT added to postural exercises did not show any difference between the intervention groups and controls in terms of muscle stiffness and posture in sedentary workers.
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Multimorbidity can influence intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and deaths due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19). ⋯ Our results showed an association between multimorbidity, ICU admission, and death in COVID-19 patients in Brazil.
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The relationship with body image, which is the way the body presents itself to each subject, can be aggravated in children and adolescents diagnosed with an human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, since these patients use antiretroviral therapy and may suffer from the adverse effects of the treatment due to continuous use of medication. ⋯ https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/ (CRD42021257676).
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The Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire (QoDD) may prove to be an important evaluation tool in the Brazilian context, and, therefore, can contribute to a more precise evaluation of the dying and death process, improving and guiding the end-of-life patient care. ⋯ The QoDD-Br is a culturally adapted valid instrument, and may be used to assess the quality of death of cancer patients.
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The fibromyalgia impact questionnaire (FIQ) relates to the functional capacity, professional situation, psychological disorders, and physical symptoms, and can identify the factors that determine the impact of the syndrome and characteristics of its carriers; the higher the score, the greater the impact of fibromyalgia on the quality of life. ⋯ The survey findings suggest a severe impact in the majority of the Brazilian fibromyalgic population.