CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Educação Física e Esporte (EEFE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Cristina Porto Alves Alcantara in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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With the growing preoccupation for a better quality of life, there hasbeen an increase in the search for physical activities by both youngand elderly adults. The long distance running was one of theactivities which had the largest number of novices among the elderlypopulation. In a study that our group conducted about elderly runners (Fukuchi,Duarte 2008), the main observed difference by …
The running is one of the physical activities that have been growing the number of participants, independently of age and gender. As any other modality, when practice without orientation or preparation, can cause injuries. These injuries usually happen because of repetitive movements that overload the musculoskeletal structures due to: muscular unbalance, limitations in the range of motio…
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