Low back pain is multifactorial and can arise from dysfunction of the spinal muscles, which can trigger muscle fatigue due to excessive overloads imposed on the structures of the lumbar spine: ligaments, capsules and intervertebral discs, causing the plastic alteration of these elements sensitive to distension. Furthermore, when recruiting a muscle group too much, or leaving them immobile for long periods or ev...
Anxiety is a negative feeling and is related to situations that individuals experience in their daily lives. When this anxiety brings excessive worry and harm to individuals' lives, it becomes a pathology. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of anxiety in nursing students from a higher education institution. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The research partici...
Introduction: The COVID-19 infection caused by the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has spread to become a worldwide pandemic leading to a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Physiotherapists, as professionals who work on the front lines of the pandemic, must always be aware of updates and have the skills to make decisions, detect new cases and define the appropriate treatment in the ICU. Objective: To analyze physic...
This study aimed to analyze the epidemiological profile of foodborne disease outbreaks in the state of Piauí between the years 2015 to 2019. Information from the Notifiable Disease Information System (SINAN) database was used. of the TABNET program, using electronic means. As it is a public domain database, made available by the Unified Health System (SUS), there was no need to submit the work to the Ethics and...
The pandemic caused by COVID-19 brought a great concern to the population and its governments, as its spread is accelerated. In this context, a safe and effective treatment becomes urgent to treat and reduce probable complications, which can reduce the mortality caused by the disease. Drugs such as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine began to be tested, these drugs were previously used around the world in the tr...
The work of a military police officer can lead to the appearance of anxiety disorders. They can have significant impacts on police officers' health, affecting their quality of life and social relationships, and can also affect their performance in terms of their duties and service activities and put their lives and that of third parties at risk. The present study aimed to analyze, through the literature, the sc...
Garlic acts on hypertension in several ways, first, exerting a dilating effect, both by the release of nitric oxide and by the increase in available adenosine, thus contributing to the hypotensive mechanism, and garlic can be considered a strong ally in the treatment of this pathology, the study had as a problem “effectiveness of using garlic extract as herbal medicine in controlling hypertension according to t...
Natural-source products are being studied to preserve human health, including to prevent oral diseases, because industrialized drugs can cause bacterial resistance and adverse effects. Red propolis, a resinous and complex substance, of natural origin produced by bees, has therapeutic properties such as antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activity. The objective of this work was to verify the antibacterial effec...
Eucalyptus globulus oil has several pharmacological properties. Among them, its antiseptic, expectorant, antifungal and antimicrobial effects stand out. The present work had the general objective of evaluating the activity of Eucalyptus globulus oil in the control of bacteria of the oral cavity and specific objectives to compare the effect of Eucalyptus globulus oil with chlorhexidine effect and to determine in...
In Piauí, American Visceral Leishmaniasis (AVL) has great relevance because the state is one of the endemic centers of the disease. Thus, the objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological profile of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) in the state of Piauí, from 2012 to 2018. This is a descriptive, quantitative, population-based study, using secondary data referring to the epidemiological aspects of cases...