CV Lattes
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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
has a BA degree (2004), Masters (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) on Physical Therapy by the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and MBA on Management and Teaching by Centro Universitário Central Paulista (UNICEP, 2017). Nowadays she is Assistant Professor at Federal University of São Carlos and at the Physical Therapy Post-Graduate Program (UFSCar), being responsible for the Isokinetic Dinamometry Laboratory and coordinating the Laboratory of Research on Electrophysical Agents (LAREF). She is the leader of the Research Group Pain: Physical Therapy Evaluation and Treatment, and the Study Group on Chronic Pain (NEDoC). She has experience on Physical Therapy, working mostly with: evaluation and treatment for chronic pain, electrophysical agents, aquatic physical therapy, musculoskeletal dysfunction on women's life cycle and rehabilitation. She is the mother of two children born in May 2015 and in December 2020. Contact: m.avila@ufscar.br (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Pelvic floor muscle training (TMAP) is considered the first line of treatment to prevent or treat female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Few studies have evaluated the cost-effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of SUI treatment, and these studies mostly refer to costs for surgical or drug treatment. Aim: To verify the effectiveness and cost-utility of different weekly frequencies of the…
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a prevalent and often disabling disease, that affects mostly women and its main characteristic is chronic pain. Several studies have shown that hydrotherapy is effective in the improvement of painful symptoms and quality of life of this population; other studies have shown that Pain Therapeutic Education (PTE) is also effective in this sense. PTE is one cheap, easy to…
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a generalized chronic pain disorder. Its prevalence varies between 0.2 and 6.6% worldwide, with a higher prevalence in females. The cause of FM remains so far unknown and thus there is no gold standard therapy defined for both diagnosis and treatment, and although we have pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies, physical exercise continues to be the main sup…
Dysmenorrhea is a common gynecological condition characterized by discomfort in the abdominal region before or during menstruation in the absence of pelvic disease. The high prevalence of dysmenorrhea is associated with decreased quality of life. This study aims to develop and validate a mobile device application to assess symptoms associated with menstruation and provide guidance for sel…
Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is characterized as menstrual pain (menstrual cramps) in the absence of associated pelvic or uterine pathologies and affects about three-quarters of all women during their reproductive life. A quarter of women using one of the conventional treatments for PD have refractory pain. Self-efficacy is the individual's belief about his ability to adopt a behavior to dea…
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Menstruation is a natural process of the menstrual cycle that occurs in more than 300 million women a day. Abnormal menstrual cycles can lead to the discovery of possible health disorders, in addition to hormonal instabilities during the cycle that can cause symptoms such as headaches, mood fluctuation, anxiety, stress and even loss of productivity. In Brazil, it is estimated that more th…
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