Lilian Ramiro Felicio

Federal University of Uberlândia | UFU · Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy(FAEFI)

Background: Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is characterized by anterior knee, which intensifies during functional activities that require the eccentric action of the quadriceps muscle, specially. In ths way, quantitatively measurable functional tests that simulate these activities should be included in the physical therapy evaluation. Objective: To i...

Background: This study aimed to identify the postural sway variables that can distinguish between ballet dancers with high and low occurrences of musculoskeletal injuries. Methods: Fourteen professional ballet dancers were assigned to a high-occurrence group (N = 5, reports >2 injuries in the previous 6-months) or a low-occurrence group (N = 9,...

Background: Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is a knee pain condition with multifactorial aetiology, twice common in women. The recommended conservative treatment is based on strengthening of the core, hip, and knee musculatures. Addition of neuromuscular training to a strengthening protocol might provide further benefits on pain, function, and kinematic...

Background The range of motion (RoM) of dorsiflexion (DF) plays an important role in human mobility, such as absorption of body weight during gait deceleration, jump landings, balance, and eccentric movements. This limitation can generate potentially damaging movements. This way, evaluating techniques for DF RoM increase could help improve immediat...

The objective of this study will be to investigate the additional effect of pain neuroscience education program compared to a craniocervical manual therapy and exercises program for pain intensity and disability in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). This study will be a randomized controlled trial comprising a sample of 148 participan...

Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is a common condition in athletes, which can alter the muscular activity of lower limb during jump. The objective of the study was to verify the magnitude of activation, onset timing and order of recruitment of the proximal and local muscles to the ankle of young athletes with CAI during a single leg vertical jump. T...

Background: The range of motion (RoM) of dorsiflexion (DF) plays an important role in human mobility, such as absorption of body weight during gait deceleration, jump landings, balance and eccentric movements. This limitation can generate potentially damaging movements. This way, evaluating techniques for DF RoM increase could help improve immediat...

Introduction Performance tests of the upper limb have been frequently used in the evaluation of individuals to identify risk of injury and to determine improvement in physical performance. Understanding the variables related to the performance of the tests is important for better applicability and interpretation of test results. The aim of this cro...

Introduction It is possible to quantify changes in movement patterns through kinematic analysis of landing, especially to quantify changes in pre and post exhaustion situations, however the reliability of this post exhaustion analysis is not known. Objective To verify the inter and intra-examiner reliability of two-dimensional kinematic analysis d...

Background: Due to the large number of jumping and landing movements, volleyball exerts a high demand on lower limbs, causing a high incidence of injuries. On average, 52% of volleyball injuries occur in lower limbs. Y Balance-test (YBT) is widely used to predict lower limb injury in athletes who jump, so it is important to identify whether the hi...

Background: Postural stability is quite mandatory when practicing high-performance sports. Investigations of postural stability and related variables in judokas with visual impairment can lead to new training plans targeting the improvement of postural stability and ultimately to enhanced performance. Objectives: To investigate postural stability a...

Background: Patellofemoral pain (PFP) often affects young women, and the etiology is multifactorial and poorly understood. Conservative intervention has been focused on risk factors or aggravating factors and is composed of hip- and knee-strengthening exercises, as this population often has muscle weakness and poor motor control during daily and s...

INTRODUÇÃO: Segundo Martinez-Lirola (2019), um papel da Universidade no século XXI, dentre outros, é formar profissionais capacitados a responder às demandas impostas pela sociedade. Nesse contexto, as Instituições que possuem cursos de pós-graduação necessitam mais ainda ter essa premissa em suas metas e, uma delas, é inserir a formação plena aos...

Introdução: Frequentemente a fáscia, estrutura responsável pela transmissão de força tensional, está relacionada a queixas álgicas. Em decorrência a isso, a liberação miofascial é uma técnica amplamente utilizada na Fisioterapia, com o objetivo de mobilizar a fáscia, reduzindo aderências, gerando assim analgesia. Objetivo: analisar os métodos de li...

RESUMO A disfunção femoropatelar é descrita como uma condição de dor anterior no joelho, agravada por movimentos que aumentam as forças compressivas na articulação femoropatelar. Acomete principalmente mulheres jovens fisicamente ativas e sabe-se que sua etiologia é multifatorial, e fatores extrínsecos e intrínsecos ao corpo estão envolvidos. Em vi...

Silva PRO, Mainenti, M, Felicio L, Ferreira A, Lopes A, Bernhoeft M, Vigário PS. Cardiorespiratory Fitness of Visually Impaired Footballers through Direct and Indirect Methods: A Pilot Study. JEPonline 2018;21(5):170-183. The purpose of this study was to compare the cardiorespiratory fitness of visually impaired (VI) footballers with non-blind foot...

Background: A strong performance from the quadriceps muscle has been associated with improved dynamic stabilization of the knee and a lower risk of injuries. Therefore, techniques that improve quadriceps muscle activity are often used in physiotherapy programs. Objectives: To evaluate the effect of Kinesio tape (KT) on the isokinetic parameters, in...

Classical ballet involves the performance of complex movements that require high-level motor skills and good postural control. This study explored postural sway in passé en demi-pointe position in dancers and compared single-leg standing sway (with and without visual restriction) between dancers and non-dancers. Fourteen professional dancers and 14...

Objective: This study investigated differences in surface electromyography (sEMG) activity of the masseter and anterior temporalis muscles in children with and without temporomandibular disorders (TMD). Participants: Thirty-four children aged 8-12 years were recruited, comprising 17 children with TMD and 17 without TMD (control group [CG]). The...

Introduction: This study investigated the movement strategies for postural control in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3). Methods: This case-control study enrolled 5 patients with SCA3 (aged 41 to 51 years) and 5 healthy participants group-matched by age, body mass and body height.Participants performed 3 trials lasting 30 s each of...

Objective To identify and quantify the main muscles affected by weakness and spasticity, their impact on gait, functional capacity and on quality of life of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy patients. Method We evaluated lower limbs muscular strength according to the Medical Research Council scale, spasticity according to the modified Ashworth scale, d...

Background: Ballet is a high-performance activity that requires an advanced level of technical skills. Ballet places great stress on tendons, muscles, bones, and joints and may act directly as a trigger of injury by overuse. Objectives: 1) to describe the main types of injuries and affected areas related to classical ballet and 2) to compare the...

Closed Kinetic Chain Upper Extremity Stability Test (CKCUES test) is a functional test for the upper extremity performed in the push-up position, where individuals support their body weight on one hand placed on the ground and swing the opposite hand until touching the hand on the ground, then switch hands and repeat the process as fast as possible...

The Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome is one of the most common disorders of the knee, characterized by pain in the frontal part of the knee, which is worsened by activities that increase compressive forces on the joint. Alterations in the muscle strength of the quadriceps and hip stabilizer muscles can change patellar biomechanics, increasing joint str...

Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is a prevalent clinical condition and it affects gait behavior. Braking and propulsive impulses are important biomechanical parameters obtained from ground reaction forces (GRF), which combine the amount of force applied over a period of time. The aim of this study was to evaluate these impulses while walking up...

A paresia distal crural, muito marcante nos pacientes com doença de Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), provoca inúmeras alterações nos padrões da marcha. Vários recursos de reabilitação têm sido propostos para gerenciar os problemas de deambulação, entre eles a utilização de órteses tornozelo-pé (OTP). O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar efeitos imediat...

INTRODUÇÃO: O treinamento desportivo em diversas modalidades está associado à presença de lesões, principalmente quando apresenta grande volume e intensidade. Poucos estudos nacionais investigaram a prevalência de lesão em tenistas, porém, as informações sobre a localização, o tipo e o mecanismo das lesões que acometem esse grupo de atletas são imp...

[Purpose] Complaint of pain is common in computer workers, encouraging the investigation of pain-related workplace factors. This study investigated the relationship among work-related characteristics, psychosocial factors, and pain among computer workers from a university center. [Subjects and Methods] Fifteen subjects (median age, 32.0 years; inte...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the patellar height of volunteers with and without patellofemoral pain syndrome (PPS) during maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) in open kinetic chain (OKC) and closed kinetic chain (CKC) exercises. METHODS: Twenty healthy women, and nineteen women with patellofemoral pain syndrome were evaluated and subjected to...

A patellar bandage is often used by individuals with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PPS) to reduce pain and the additional sensorial input improves proprioception of the knee joint. The aim of this work was to assess the effect of a patellar bandage on the postural control of individuals with and without PPS. [Subjects and Methods] An analysis was p...

La enfermedad de Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) es una neuropatía periférica hereditaria caracterizada por atrofia y paresia progresiva de la musculatura distal, principalmente en los miembros inferiores, que evoluciona con limitaciones en la marcha y en el balance. El objetivo de esto estudio fue analizar los efectos inmediatos del uso de ortesis para...

The Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome is one of the most common disorders of the knee, characterized by pain in the frontal part of the knee, which is worsened by activities that increase compressive forces on the joint. Alterations in the muscle strength of the quadriceps and hip stabilizer muscles can change patellar biomechanics, increasing joint str...

Dance involves integration between movement, postural balance and the multiple aspects involved with postural control. Information regarding the balance of ballet dancers is of great importance, as they are considered models of great postural control. The aim was to review studies about static and dynamic postural balance of ballet dancers, charact...

As patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is a common disorder characterized by multifactorial etiology and whose the most prevalent symptom is a diffuse pain, usually located on the retropatellar region, however, it also shows signs and symptoms that can be related as excessive subtalar pronation, external tibial torsion, patellar displacement altera...

Although photogrammetry is a widespread technique in the health field, despite of the methodological efforts distortions in the angular readings of the images are common. To measure the error of angular measurements in photo images with different digital resolutions in an object with pre-determined angles. We used a rubber ball with 52 cm in circum...

The purpose of this study was to correlate the trochlear shape and patellar tilt angle and lateral patellar displacement at rest and maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC) exercises during open (OKC) and closed kinetic chain (CKC) in subjects with and without anterior knee pain. Subjects were all women, 20 who were clinically healthy and 19...

Quantitative MRI of Vastus Medialis, Vastus Lateralis and Gluteus Medius Muscle Workload after Squat Exercise: Comparison Between Squatting with Hip Adduction and Hip Abduction The aim of the present study was to evaluate the use MRI to quantify the workload of gluteus medius (GM), vastus medialis (VM) and vastus lateralis (VL) muscles in different...

Hip and knee muscle weaknesses have been associated with the onset of anterior knee pain (AKP). Therefore, the understanding of how squats exercises can be performed in order to optimize the electrical activity of these muscles is relevant for physical therapy treatments. To compare the electromyographic activity of patella and pelvic stabilizers d...

To evaluate patellar kinematics of volunteers without knee pain at rest and during isometric contraction in open-and closed-kinetic-chain exercises. Twenty individuals took part in this study. All were submitted to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during rest and voluntary isometric contraction (VIC) in the open and closed kinetic chain at 15 degre...

OBJECTIVE: To asses the onset (%) of patella stabilizer muscles during maximal isometric contraction exercises (MIC) in individuals with and without signs of patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) in open (OKC) and closed (CKC) kinetic chain exercises. METHOD: Assessments were carried out on 22 women; ten with no complains of anterior knee pain, and 1...

O presente estudo teve como objetivo avaliar variações na percepção de gostos básicos (doce, amargo, salgado e ácido) em pessoas, antes e após exercícios físicos. Foi utilizada a análise tempo-intensidade com 18 provadores. As amostras foram apresentadas aos provadores de forma monádica em quatro repetições, antes e após exercício físico em bicicle...

Objective: To asses the onset (%) of patella stabilizer muscles during maximal isometric contraction exercises (MIC) in individuals with and without signs of patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) in open (OKC) and closed (CKC) kinetic chain exercises, Method: Assessments were carried out on 22 women; ten with no complains of anterior knee pain, and 1...

Objective: To investigate the reflex response time (RRT) of the vastus medialis obliquus (VMO), vastus lateralis obliquus (VLO) and vastus lateralis longus (VLL) muscles in clinically healthy individuals and subjects with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PPS). Methods: Twelve clinically health women and twelve women with PPS were evaluated. Electromyo...

OBJETIVO: Avaliar o tempo de resposta reflexa (TRR) dos músculos vasto medial oblíquo (VMO), vasto lateral oblíquo (VLO) e vasto lateral longo (VLL) em indivíduos clinicamente saudáveis e portadores de síndrome da dor patelofemural (SDPF). MÉTODOS: Foram avaliadas 12 mulheres clinicamente saudáveis e 12 mulheres com SDPF. Os registros eletromiográf...

OBJETIVO: Avaliar o tempo de resposta reflexa (TRR) dos músculos vasto medial oblíquo (VMO), vasto lateral oblíquo (VLO) e vasto lateral longo (VLL) em indivíduos clinicamente saudáveis e portadores de síndrome da dor patelofemural (SDPF). MÉTODOS: Foram avaliadas 12 mulheres clinicamente saudáveis e 12 mulheres com SDPF. Os registros eletromiográf...

The objective of this study was to compare the electromyograph- ic (EMG) activity of vastus medialis obliquus (VMO), vastus latera- lis longus (VLL) and vastus lateralis oblíquus (VLO) during wall slide squat isometric exercises at 45° (WS 45°) and at 60° (WS 60°) of knee flexion. Fifteen healthy control women and fifteen women with patellofemoral...