Blockchain & Healthcare with Catarina Reis – Campus 5 O’Clock Talk
Last June 23, was the last Campus 5 O’Clock Talk session of this season.The number of participants revealed that, this is a hot and interesting topic which is still evolving and needs to be developed and, according to Catarina Reis, ‘clarified’. This was the third session of this together partnership between ciTechCare and Start up Leiria – Inovação Social and had the higher number of registrations since its start. The speaker, Catarina Reis, is also a researcher from ciTechCare and a blockchain expert who wants to demystify and make easier to understand this theme. Campus 5 O’Clock Talk will come back
What is the relationship between endurance of the trunk extensor muscles and balance performance in community-dwelling older adults?
With the aim of assessing the relationship between balance performance and endurance of trunk extensor muscles in older people, who reveal to have a higher risk of falling, the results of this correlational and predictive cross-sectional study showed a moderate correlation between the Berg Balance Scale score and Trunk Extensor Endurance Test (ρ=0.41, p=0.001) and between Berg Balance Scale and body mass index (BMI) (ρ=−0.36, p=0.005). The article, recently published in the International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, allows to conclude that since BMI and muscle endurance are modifiable factors, they should be routinely included in the screening of balance performance in older
Which feeding barriers compromise how children with autism spectrum disorders feed?
Inês Tello-Rodrigues, speech therapist, researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, is co-author of a systematic review about feeding problems in children with autism spectrum disorders’, which was published last May 20 in the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing. From the 45 eligible articles for the analysis, it was possible to conclude that feeding problems are mainly associated to food selectivity and food refusal, behavioural mealtime problems, fear of trying new food (food neophobia) and oral-motor impairment. From all the studies, 37 focused on the food selectivity and refusal and from these, 8 reveal to compromise the suitable nutritional intake and 8
What portuguese elder people tell us about physical exercise practice?
The most recent article from Marlene Rosa, Raúl Antunes and Roberta Frontini about the practise of physical exercise in elder people and edited by Springer Nature aims to explore the cultural influences on barriers or facilitators for the practise of physical activity in this population. Applied a narrative methodology, this study compared two groups of 6 individuals each one, older than 60 years old, in which one of them was enrolled in a community exercise program and the other was not enrolled in any regular exercise program. The study concluded that the high number of barriers felt by the less
Telemonitoring in hypertensive patients with exercise prescription is at the origin of an innovative project and article with international recognition
Pedro Morouço, researcher of ciTechCare, together with other physical exercise professionals, published a systematic review about the impact telemonitoring has on hypertension control. Hypertension is a growing problem in daily society, and specialists expected that all over the Europe, around 35 to 40% of population is hypertensive and, in Portugal, the prevalence of hypertensive adults is around 42,6%. The systematic review resulted in the analysis of 19 eligible articles and the conclusion was that physical exercise really contributes to the control of hypertension and on people with co-morbidities, like heart failure, improve their functional resistance. According to Pedro Morouço, “the
Opening of call for a doctoral researcher
Polytechnic of Leiria (IPL) opened an international public tender for a doctoral researcher position in the area of Food and Nutrition Science and Technology or in Pharmaceutical Technology or in related areas for an employment contract in public functions with a fixed term for a period of three years, automatically renewable for periods of one year up to the maximum duration of six years, in order to develop investigation activities in the project field. Work will be developed in ciTechCare, Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology, or in other suitable location of Polytechnic of Leiria. Applications are opened until June