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Each person in their place: the 'praxe' as a ritual of integration, stratificat...

Every year, in a variety of countries, current higher education students welcome newcomers with a set of ritualised practices in which the latter submit to the former through tests that entail varying degrees and types of violence, but also an important element of playfulness. In Portugal, these rituals are known as ‘praxe académica’. This is a complex and multidimensional social phenomenon whose origins go bac...

Why are tapes better than wires in knotless rotator cuff repairs? An evaluation...

Knotless repairs have demonstrated encouraging performance regarding retear rate reduction, but literature aiming at identifying the specific variables responsible for these results is scarce and conflictive. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the effect of the material (tape or wire suture) and medial tendon passage (single or double passage) on the contact force, pressure and area at the tendon bone in...

Technical aspects of surgical correction of spinal deformities in cerebral palsy

Purpose: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a disorder arising from a non-progressive lesion in the developing immature brain with an encephalopathy, that results in various levels of motor and sensory dysfunction. Motor disability of these children can be assessed by the Gross Motor Function Classification System in five levels, and depending on their motor functional capability, the most severely affected children fall i...

Espondilodiscite na Idade Pediátrica: A Importância de um Diagnóstico Precoce

Alterações Estruturais da Coluna e Exercício Físico

Os efeitos do exercício físico na saúde e bem estar são de todos conhecidos. No entanto, na sociedade moderna em que vivemos, este tipo de actividade é por vezes levado aos limites da exaustão po desconhecimento da capacidade do nosso aparelho músculo esquelético nas várias etapas da vida e das mais diversas circunstâncias. Analisamos as alterações estruturais mais frequentes da coluna vertebral nos dois planos...

Raquialgias na Criança

As raquialgias são, na criança e no adolescente, menos frequentes do que no adulto, mas traduzem, com maior frequência, a existência de patologia subjacente. Longe de constituírem um gasto excessivo de tempo do clínico, a colheita minuciosa da história clínica e um exame objectivo cuidadoso e sistemático são, indubitavelmente, um dos melhores investimentos do médico que vê crianças com este tipo de sintoma. Per...

The risk of seroconversion in surgeons of the hepatitis B, hepatitis C and huma...

The prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBs Ag) and antibody to hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was determined in the serum specimens of 288 patients treated surgically in the orthopaedic department of an urban public teaching hospital. The cumulative risk of HBV, HCV and HIV seroconversion for an orthopaedic surgeon during the surgical career span was calculated. We found ...

The Hickman type central venous catheter for vascular access in cancer patients.