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Sónia Gonçalves Pereira, researcher at ciTechCare, published an opinion article on July 15, in Jornal de Leiria, on a topic that has been an increasing topic of opinions and criticism in the society: the perception of the general practitioner as an unlimited resource of medical prescriptions and certificates. The article aims to highlight the role of the general practitioner in promoting the health and well-being of the population and the burden that these professionals feel in managing the lists of their patients and families, which was aggravated during the pandemic.Sonia refers that “This is a general practitioner. Not a window

The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) approved the funding of two research initiation grants at ciTechCare, for a period of one month for 2 grant holders, under the special support “Verão com Ciência”.These grants will financially support the initiation of the students’ work in research during summer. The approved project that will be developed at ciTechcare is coordinated by the researcher Marlene Rosa and is entitled: The Game as a therapeutic resource in the approach to pain chronic in adults and elderly people.Applications will open soon and will be published on Facebook and at the ciTechCare website, (Euraxess –

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) released yesterday, July 29th, the provisional results of the 2021 Call for

Pão de Medronho developed by Rui Lopes, a researcher at citechcare is the big winner of the “Fab Lab 2020 Food Award”. Rui Lopes is the owner of the company Medronho&Canela – Food and Nutritional Innovation, a Spin-Off by the Polytechnic of Leiria, which was created to leverage the “Pão Medronho” project, and give substance to other food and nutritional innovation projects that are in progress with centres of research and companies. The Medronho Bread is a rustic, special and innovative bread, with all the components of the Medronho. The product began to be developed in 2010, having been formulated,

Sofia Flora, researcher at ciTechCare and PhD student at the Faculty of Human Motricity, published an article on July 14 in Diário de Leiria on the importance of physical activity in the health and quality of life of people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which highlights the work that has been developed at ciTechCare in this area, within the OnTRACK project and her PhD project (both funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT Ref. POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028446 and 2020.06954.BD). Sofia emphasizes “Particularly in people with COPD, their health condition, exercise tolerance and the appropriateness of the type of physical activity

Roberta Frontini, researcher at ciTechCare is co-author of an article recently published in the Journal of Sport Pedagogy and Research. This work is part of a series of studies coordinated by Professor António Brandão, from the Superior School of Sport and Leisure – Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (ESDL-IPVC), within a project on Risk and Safety in sports from nature and adventure, where Roberta has collaborated. In this work, the authors tried to understand the motivations for the practice of nature and adventure sports, comparing practitioners and non-practitioners of exercise. The study revealed that the reasons linked to revitalization,