Cristina Mattos Pereira Frange

Cristina Frange is a sleep physiotherapist, working as a clinician and a researcher. She earned her postdoctoral degree at the Neurology and Neurosurgery Department, from the Neuroscience Program at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in 2022; graduated with a Ph.D. in Medicine and Biology of Sleep in 2017 from the Sleep Division of the Department of Psychobiology at UNIFESP. Certified as Sleep Physiotherapist from Brazilian Sleep Association. Certified in Advanced Sleep Training by the World Sleep Academy, World Sleep Society (WSS) in 2023. Dr. Frange has presented on sleep and its relevance to physical therapy practice at national and international conferences, and has many peer reviewed publications. She was part of the team that presented a Discussion Session on sleep and physiotherapy at the World Physiotherapy Congress (Geneve, Switzerland, 2019), a course on Sleep and Physiotherapy for the Israeli Association of Physical Therapy (Tel Aviv, Israel, 2020), for the Slovenian Physical Therapy Association (Online, 2022), and many lectures for Physical Therapy Associations. She edited the books: Clinical Cases in Sleep Physical Therapy (2023), and Sleep and Physical Therapy: a Comprehensive Guide for Practitioners (2022), both by Springer Publisher; and Sleep and Physical Therapy in Brazilian Portuguese (2023), by DiLivros Publisher. She gathered physiotherspists from Brazil to discuss and deliver the Practice recommendations for the role of physiotherapy in the management of sleep disorders: the Brazilian Sleep Association Guidelines (2022). She was a member of the Brazilian Council of Sleep Physiotherapists (2022-2023), of Brazilian Sleep Association, and is a member of the Health Promotion for Life and Work network since 2019. She is a core faculty of the World Sleep Academy, from WSS (online); and coordinates the course Sleep Physiotherapy,at the Sleep Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. She is also a faculty of Sleep Institute and Einstein Teaching. Her research focuses on non-pharmacological interventions to improve sleep disorders/disturbances, specifically sleep apnea and resltess legs syndrome, and how sleep optimization can improve rehabilitation outcomes. She loves to colaborate and learn, nationally and internationally. (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)