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ciTechCare present at the national Congress of Physiotherapists and the Congress of Pulmonology

29 December 2021

This year, ciTechCare was represented at the XI National Congress of Physiotherapists (CNFt) and at the 37th Congress of Pulmonology, of the Portuguese Society of Pulmonology (SPP), through oral communications and e-posters, as well as communications by invitation. Oral communication (CNFt):1) Silva I, Machado P, Flora S, Cruz J. (2021) Validity and test-retest reliability of smartbands in monitoring Physical activity. Communications on e-poster (CNFt):1) Pimenta S, Raposo R, Alves-Guerreiro J, Flora S, Caceiro R, Morais N, Oliveira A, Silva CG, Silva S, Valente C, Andrade L, Rainho A, Martins V, Marques A, Cruz J. (2021) Motives to be physically active and

Effects of exercise on quality of life after surgery for lung cancer and coloretal cancer

28 December 2021

In an article recently published in the journal Cancers, researchers from ciTechCare and the University of Coimbra investigated the effect of perioperative (i.e., pre- and/or post-surgery) exercise on quality of life of people with lung cancer and colorectal cancer after surgical resection. This publication is part of Pedro Machado’s doctoral work. Lung cancer and colorectal cancer are the deadliest tumours worldwide and two of the most incident tumours. Surgery is a potentially curative intervention for these patients; however, it has short- and long-term impact on patients’ quality of life, with most patients experiencing physical limitations and increased fatigue symptoms. The main conclusions

CBmeter presented at Expo Dubai

28 December 2021

The CBMETER project was presented on December 14th at Expo Dubai, by Maria Guarino, researcher and coordinator of ciTechCare. This presentation was held at the Seminar “Studying and Researching in Portugal”, which took place in the Portuguese Pavilion at Expo Dubai, promoted by CRUP — Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities and CCISP — Coordinating Council of Polytechnic Institutes.Cristina Perdigão, director of the Erasmus National Agency, provided positive feedback of the event: “We wanted to be sure that we were able to have the Pavilion [of Portugal] available to present what is best done in Portugal in teaching and research,

Exercise, (In)satisfation with body image and anxiety during lockdown

27 December 2021

Roberta Fontini, researcher at ciTechCare, collaborated on 2 papers presented at the 9th Congress of the Scientific Society of Sport Pedagogy. The first, an oral communication entitled “Exercise dependence, (dis)satisfaction with body image and anxiety in crosstrainers during COVID19 lockdown” and the second, a poster entitled “(Dis)satisfaction with body image and anxiety in gym users during COVID19 lockdown”. The results reinforced the importance of researchers and fitness coaches being aware of signs of exercise addiction as well as the levels of anxiety of crosstrainers. Furthermore, they helped to characterize crosstrainers and gym users in terms of (dis)satisfaction with body image

Polytechnic of Leiria (PL) and Leiria Hospital Center (CHL) regularized a protocol for the use of the cardiopulmonary exercise test

23 December 2021

December 21, was the chosen day to formalize a collaboration protocol for investigation and development, using together the stress test equipment (CPET), between both PL and CHL. This equipment of the Polytechnic of Leiria is located at the Pneumology Healthcare Service at the Leiria Hospital Center (CHL). The cardiopulmonary stress test will be used both by Polytechnic of Leiria and CHL, under the coordination of each supervisor, assuring the operational protocol control. Both entities will share knowledge, scientific and technical faculties in CPET among their professionals on the research projects development, graduated and post graduated training of students and professionals

CBmeter in the podcast

22 December 2021

ciTechCare researcher Maria Guarino talked with António Lopes in the podcast UmsobreZero about CBmeter project CBmeter – ciTechcare (ipleiria.pt). In this podcast, topics of interest to most people were addressed, such as the definition of diabetes and the evolution of the disease throughout history, as well as its consequences. The impact of the CBmeter project in diabetes prevention and how it aims to contribute to early diagnosis of this disease that currently affects about 420 million people worldwide. UmsobreZero is a podcast of conversations about technology that was awarded the prize for best Science and Technology podcast in the Portuguese