Eduardo Borba Neves

Exército Brasileiro | Exército Brasileiro · Brazilian Army Research Institute of Physical Fitness

INTRODUÇÃO: A Incontinência Urinária de Esforço (IUE) constitui um problema global de saúde pública, comum e crescente, estigmatizante e angustiante; que atinge mulheres de todas as idades causando deterioração na saúde física e mental. A Radiofrequência (RF) não ablativa gera um efeito térmico no tecido e desencadeia um processo inflamatório agudo...

Background Brown adipose tissue (BAT) high density of mitochondria and its thermogenic characteristics promote the dissipation of chemical energy in the form of heat, increasing body caloric expenditure, decreasing plasma levels of lipids and glucose (GL). This makes BAT a potential therapeutic target of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). Position Emissio...

Infrared thermography can assist in the documentation of inflammatory vascular healing reactions and tissue perfusion resulting from esthetic surgical procedures in different parts of the body and face. Both in preoperative planning and in its postoperative evolutionary behavior. Infrared thermography is a functional imaging technique of cutaneous...

O Consenso Internacional e Diretrizes em Termografia Médica (CIDTM) 2022 ocorreu entre os dias 14 a 20 de novembro de 2022. Entre os dias 14 e 17, os congressistas participaram do Pré-congresso online, no qual puderam ver aulas com convidados internacionais, com temas envolvendo análise por termografia, inteligência artificial, entre outros. Nos di...

This study proposed an infrared image-based method for febrile and subfebrile people screening to comply with the society need for alternative, quick response, and effective methods for COVID-19 contagious people screening. The methodology consisted of: (i) Developing a method based on facial infrared imaging for possible COVID-19 early detection i...

This study proposed an infrared image-based method for febrile and non-febrile people screening to comply with the society needs for alternative, quick response, and effective methods for COVID-19 contagious people screening. The methodology consisted of: (i) Developing a method based on the face infrared imaging for early COVID-19 detection in peo...

Heat-related illnesses are a problem for a lot of troops in the world. Thus, this work aimed to analyze the thermal stress control mechanisms applicable to troops in military operations. For this reason, it was chosen to address the following topics: basic aspects of thermoregulation in hot environments, and heat stress control mechanisms in milita...

Background Pressure Injury (PI) is a severe health problem that affects millions of people. As a preventive strategy for high-risk ICU patients, the appropriate selection of a support surface is essential for preventing PI, along with risk assessment and repositioning. Increasing skin temperature has been associated with a higher susceptibility to...

Military clothing may interfere in thermoregulation, as the type of fabric, composition, and permeability of the material may influence on body heat dissipation and homeostasis modifying the sweating rates and, consequently, increasing the body temperature, inducing hyperthermia, dehydration, and rhabdomyolysis (1). PURPOSE: to compare the skin tem...

PURPOSE:To measure the activation of brown adipose tissue by cold stress protocol in obese men. METHODS:24 male military from Brazilian Army were evaluated (38.5±1.8years, BMI:30.7±2.9kg/m 2 ,body fat:31.0±.2%).The maximum and medium supraclavicular temperature (TScvMax/TScvMed) from right/left sides and the maximum and medium sternum temperature (...

Malnutrition in heart failure (HF) is frequent and associated with a worse prognosis. Due to differences in investment and the profile of those assisted, the objective of this study was to evaluate the frequency of malnutrition in hospitalized patients with HF and its association with clinical outcomes in the public and private health systems. Met...

Objectives: To analyze case reports with individual patient data belonging to the Armed Forces submitted to specific physical or military combat training that was affected by rhabdomyolysis and identify factors that influenced the diagnosis and clinical evolution of the syndrome. Content: We conducted a systematic review following the PRISMA guidel...

Este capítulo tem por objetivo apresentar os principais conceitos sobre a termorregulação humana, as recomendações para a prática de exercício físico em ambientes extremos (ambientes de clima frio: cold injuries, vestimenta adequada e prescrição do exercício, e de clima quente: desidratação, heat illness, prescrição do exercício físico), e o uso de...

Background: "The effective treatment of Heart Failure (HF) involves care with food intake. Recently, the Ministry of Health created the Brazilian Cardioprotective Diet and its dietary index, BALANCE, which assesses adherence to the standard's recommendations". Methods: This observational prospective study is part of the Congestive Heart Failure...

Infrared thermography is an imaging exam present in the scope of diagnosis, evolutionary monitoring, and prognosis in the health area. Over the years, thermography has been studied in medicine, and it is a technique recently used in Dentistry. In this sense, the objective of this work was to carry out a literature review with a bibliometric approac...

Background: The high rates of hospitalization and mortality caused by Heart Failure (HF) have attracted the attention of health sectors around the world. Dietary patterns that involve food combinations and preparations with synergistic or antagonistic effects of different dietary components can influence the worsening and negative outcomes of this...

Introduction: The objective was to verify the relationship between anthropometric parameters and biomarkers associated with cardiometabolic diseases in military personnel. Methods: This is an analytical cross-sectional study, which involved 26 male Brazilian Army (EB) soldiers, with a mean age of 32.7 ± 2.12, physically active and from various EB m...

Objective To analyze intensity levels, modalities, types of physical activities, ambient temperature, and hydration levels during stimuli performed in training and competitionof studies that reported episodes of rhabdomyolysis in athletes. Method We conducted a systematic review following the PRISMA guidelines and registered on PROSPERO, as number...

This study aimed to evaluate the local temperature, lactate, and blood glucose in three strength training methods. The study included 12 male subjects; (22.15 ± 5.77 years, 76.85 ± 9.15 kg, 1.72 ± 0.09 m), with minimum of 12 months of strength training experience, and all participated in the three training methods: the occlusion training (Kaatsu);...

ARTIGO Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar a técnica de registro de imagens infravermelhas dos pés como método de avaliação neurovascular para identificar comorbidades usando um método não invasivo. Método: Durante o período de março de 2015 e fevereiro de 2017, foram avaliados 22 pacientes portadores de onicomicose crônica. O regist...

Physical exercise induces the thermoregulation process of the human body, in order to avoid overheating produced by muscle contraction. The infrared thermographic image (ITI) is an option to assess the change in body temperature, as it monitors the physiological functions related to the control of the skin surface temperature in real-time. The aim...

Studies have shown that subcutaneous fat thickness, muscle thickness, body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage are all correlated with skin surface temperature (ST). It is known that anthropometric measures such as waist circumference (WC), Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR) and BMI are related to body fat percentage and that they can be useful tools to...

Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a condition that affects the central nervous system, is characterized by motor and sensory impairments, and impacts individuals' lives. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of resistance training on oxidative stress and muscle damage in spinal cord injured rats. Methodology: Forty Wistar...

Citation: Aidar, F.J.; Paz, Â.d.A.; Gama, D.d.M.; de Souza, R.F.; Vieira Souza, L.M.; Santos, J.L.d.; Almeida-Neto, P.F.; Marçal, A.C.; Neves, E.B.; Moreira, O.C.; et al. Evaluation of the Post-Training Hypotensor Effect in Paralympic and Conventional Powerlifting. J. Funct. Morphol. Kinesiol. 2021, 6, 92. Abstract: High blood pressure (HBP) has be...

Spasticity is a motor condition present in 75 to 88% of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). One form of treatment is called punctual mechanical oscillation (PO). The current study aimed to study different protocols for the application of PO and the magnitude of their effects. In total, 7children with medical diagnosis of CP and ICD (International Cl...

Following the increase in the employment of women in conflicts around the world, the federal government of Brazil enacted a law which determines the participation of women in the military. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of six months of physical training (PT) on the physical fitness of young Brazilian Army cadets to carry out the p...

Background: Variable resistance training has recently become a component of strength and conditioning programs. Objective: This randomized counterbalanced cross-over study aimed to investigate the use of elastic bands (EB) and the traditional method (TRAD) and force indicators in a training session. Methods: 12 Paralympic athletes (age: 28.60...

Della Corte J, Souza RA, Silva JB, Neves EB, Torres JPB, Castro JBP, Lima e Silva L. Performance of Brazilian university handball players in the vertical jump after maximum strength training. Bioscience Journal. 2021;37:e37058. This study aimed to analyze the performance of the vertical jump with counter movement (CMJ), in university handball athl...

Background: Paralympic Powerlifting (PP) training tends to promote fatigue and oxidative stress. Objective: To analyze the effects of ibuprofen use on performance and oxidative stress in post-training PP athletes. Methodology: Ten national level PP athletes (age: 27.13 ± 5.57) were analyzed for oxidative stress in post-training. The study was...

Backgroundand Objectives: In severe obesity, a relevant weight loss can promote the reduction of comorbidities, such as systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), dyslipidemia, and diabetes mellitus (DM2). Bariatric surgery (BS) has been an essential resource in the therapy of this disease with a short-term reduction of cardiometabolic risk (CR). This s...

The diagnosis of the main complications resulting from lipoabdominoplasty has not yet been standardized. Infrared thermal imaging has been used to assess possible complications, such as necrosis and changes in micro- and macro-circulation, based on perforator mapping techniques, among others. The objective of this study was to present two clinical...

Introduction: The improvement of aerobic and anaerobic capacity in athletes of different sports is related to high-intensity exercise performance, which causes cellular microlesions and leads to an inflammatory process necessary for muscle adaptation. Biochemical markers, such as creatine kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), have been used...

La parálisis cerebral (PC) se caracteriza por trastornos posturales y de movimiento, que afectan las actividades funcionales. La fisioterapia tiene un papel en el proceso de rehabilitación y la Terapia Neuromotora Intensiva (INMT) es una propuesta para una intervención modular con alta intensidad. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar lon...

Introduction Military uniform properties can influence the body's mechanisms of homeostasis and thermoregulation. Physical exercise in thermally challenging environments can lead to physiological disturbances that may compromise the performance and increase the risk of heat illness. The aim of this study was to compare the face's skin temperature (...

Introduction The physiological responses of the human body during a triathlon race can vary according to the sports' modality disciplines or individual's physical condition [1]. Understanding the different moments of a combined race and its skin temperature variation may increase the chances of avoiding an athlete's thermal imbalance [2,3,4]. As th...

(1) Background: the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of different types of warm-ups on the strength and skin temperature of Paralympic powerlifting athletes. (2) Methods: the participants were 15 male Paralympic powerlifting athletes. The effects of three different types of warm-up (without warm-up (WW), traditional warm-up (TW), or stret...

This chapter presents the use of thermal images by health professionals as a support in the early detection of the risk of foot ulceration, addressing the fundamentals of infrared thermography, the most used methods for analyzing thermal images, and the main theoretical frameworks that validate the tool for that purpose. In addition, it shows the o...

Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) has high metabolic activity and secretes a larger number of adipokines that are related to the inflammatory process. Quantifying VAT could estimate the risk of developing Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). This study was designed to determine the VAT cut-off points assessed by DXA associated with MetS in military men. In total...

This study compared ground reaction forces (GRF) and lower limb two-dimensional (2D) kinematic waveforms, with and without load carriage, in military personnel walking in two different types of boots. Data were measured in 24-soldiers walking on a 10-m walkway under four randomized crossover trials: wearing two military boots (styrene-butadiene rub...

De modo a contribuir com o aperfeiçoamento do Programa Mais Médicos (PMM), reflete-se aqui, a partir do enfoque a Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS), sobre os resultados preliminares relacionados a amplitude desta proposta. Com o auxilio do software Gephi foram elaboradas as redes de relações fictícias dos profissionais médicos que integram o PMM, tal...

Infrared thermography has become increasingly common in sports assessment and has grown a lot over the past few years. Our objective was to identify the assessment protocols and the skin temperature behavior of practitioners of endurance sports. A systematic review was carried out following the PRISMA recommendations between the 1st and the 31st of...

Background: In Paralympic powerlifting (PP), athletes with and without spinal cord injury (SCI) compete in the same category. Athletes with SCI may be at a disadvantage in relation to the production of muscle strength and the execution of motor techniques. Objective: To analyze the indicators force, dynamic and static, at different intensities,...

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the inter- and intra-examiner reliability of infrared thermography (IT) in skin temperature analysis of people with pain complaints in the upper trapezius muscle. Methods A total of 82 subjects (24.8 ± 6.9 years; 63.8 ± 13.1 kg) of both genders who had moderate (VAS-3) or severe pain in the upper tra...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the inter-and intra-examiner reliability of infrared thermography (IT) in skin temperature analysis of people with pain complaints in the upper trapezius muscle. Methods: A total of 82 subjects (24.8 ± 6.9 years; 63.8 ± 13.1 kg) of both genders who had moderate (VAS-3) or severe pain in the upper tra...

Introduction It has been suggested that visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is associated with several non-communicable chronic diseases, but measuring it is difficult. Thus, anthropometry could be used because is easily applied in clinical practice. Objectives The present study aimed to develop and validate VAT estimation equations (Eq) in military men...

O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar os efeitos de dois programas de exercício físico (treinamento resistido e Pilates) na aptidão física de idosas. Participaram do estudo mulheres idosas que não praticavam nenhum tipo de exercício físico regular. Elas foram aleatoriamente divididas em três grupos: 1-grupo Pilates (GP), 2-grupo treinamento resistido (G...

Triathlon is one of the most flourishing sports in the world. This study aimed to analyze the acute effects of physiological markers and subjective perception variables in amateur trained athletes. Participated in the present study 8 male endurance triathletes with race experience. The injury markers and oxidative stress parameters were investigate...

(1) Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of different types of warm-ups on the strength and skin temperature of Paralympic powerlifting athletes; (2) Methods: The participants were 15 male Paralympic powerlifting athletes. It was analyzed the effects of three different types of warm-up (without warm-up (WW), tradition...

Introdução: militares estão expostos ao ruído em grande parte de suas atividades profissionais. Objetivo: identificar os fatores de risco e descrever os danos à audição relacionados à exposição ao ruído em atividades militares navais. Métodos: revisão de literatura nas bases bibliográficas Scopus, Web of Science e SciELO. Buscou-se artigos origin...

The aim of this text was to describe the possibilities of thermal image usage in nursing practice. Thermal images are obtained using infrared cameras that capture the radiation emitted by the skin. Thermal images can be used to identify people with high temperature (fever), to prevention of developing a pressure ulcer (PU) in hospitalized individua...

Della Corte J, Souza RA, Neves EB, Silva JB, Vignoli FA, Torres JPB, Castro JBP, Lima e Silva L. Thermal responses of the thighs of university handball players after a resistance training session using leg extension exercises. Journal of Physical Education and Sport. 2020;20(5):2829–2838. Training with high-performance athletes often takes the mus...

This chapter presents the aging physiology and concepts for physical activity prescription for the elderly. To this end, the following topics will be discussed: population aging and its challenges; stages and types of aging; physiology of aging (anthropometric changes, cardiac system, respiratory system, nervous system, musculoskeletal system, immu...

This chapter presents the effects of Oxidative Stress (OS) in skeletal muscle during high-intense resistance training (HIRT). To this end, the following topics will be discussed: high-intense resistance training, Oxidative stress, effects of high-intensity resistance training in skeletal muscle, definition of oxidative stress and reactive oxygen sp...

To reduce transmission of the coronavirus, the Brazilian government adopted containment measures to control the virus' spread, including limitations to the practice of physical activity. It was aimed to analyze the effects of COVID-19 quarantine on physical activity levels, energy expenditure, quality of life, and level of stress in a sample of the...

The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare three different strength training protocols for the lower limbs by using biochemical indicators of muscle damage, thermographic analysis, and neuromuscular performance. In total, 10 men (age: 22.50 ± 2.84 years; weight, 75.45 ± 6.86 kg) completed the study. All the athletes were subjected to three m...

Objetivo comparar os efeitos do treinamento resistido (TR) e Pilates na qualidade de vida (QV) de idosas. Foi realizado um estudo de delineamento experimental com intervenção de 12 semanas. Métodos Foram avaliadas mulheres idosas (≥60 anos) que não praticavam nenhum tipo de exercício físico regularmente há pelo menos 3 meses. Participaram do estud...

Post-herpetic neuralgia is due to an acute painful viral infection resulting from endogenous activation of the varicella virus. The thermal Image (or thermography) is a tool applicable to the diagnosis and clinical monitoring of neuropathic diseases. In this sense, the aim of this study was to present a case of post-herpetic neuralgia assessed and...

Background The usage of thermal imaging for the diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries has been demonstrated in which several diagnostic accuracy studies Objective This paper aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of infrared thermal imaging in detecting musculoskeletal injuries. Method A systematic literature search was carried out in August 2019 in...

Objective: the aim of this study was to verify the reproducibility index of the frequency meter with GPS technology with recording speed of 1Hz in acyclic displacement and intermittent intensity, performed by soccer referees. Materials and methods: it was characterized by a field study with a quantitative trait involving 14 men, aged 20.42 ± 2.78 y...

The non-progressive chronic encephalopathy of childhood (NPCEC) known as cerebral palsy (CP) occurs due to an injury in the immature encephalon, in the pre, peri and/or postnatal, to three years of age, with consequent tone changes, posture and movement and delayed motor development. One of the innovative forms of physical therapy interventions tha...

Success in precision activities such as shooting depends on the subtle control of body motion. This study aimed to evaluate the influence on stabilometric signal responses for the motor task of aiming a pistol with different cognitive demands and levels of exposure to high sound pressure in Brazilian Army personnel. This cross-sectional analytical...