A TERAPIA ORIENTAL LIAN GONG SOBRE OEQUILÍBRIO DO IDOSO COM DOENÇA DE PARKINSON – ESTUDO DE CASO

INTRODUÇÃO: O processo de envelhecimento sofre uma série de transformações em seus sistemas musculoesqueléticas, somatossensorial e vestibular. Tal degeneração reflete em déficit de equilíbrio podendo aumentar os riscos de quedas. A prática da ginástica terapêutica Lian Gong, devido sua ampla quantidade de movimentos, pode refletir em melhora sobre a propriocepção e nos mecanismos que intervêm na estabilidade corporal. OBJETIVO: Avaliar a influência da ginástica terapêutica oriental Lian Gong no equilíbrio de idoso com Doença de Parkinson. METODOLOGIA: Avaliados através da escala FES – I - Brasil; EEB; Teste de Romberg e Romberg-Barré; TUG que analisam o equilíbrio estático e dinâmico. Dez sessões de 40 min, 1xsem., de terapia Lian Gong. RESULTADOS: Influência positiva no teste de Romberg, EEB e TUG. Pouca alteração nos dados do questionário FES sendo uma autoavaliação subjetiva. CONCLUSÃO: Posteriormente ao período de intervenção verificou- se melhora sobre o equilíbrio estático e a manutenção do equilíbrio dinâmico no indivíduo idoso com Doença de Parkinson

The prevalence of falls and associated factors among the elderly according to ethnicity

The historical and cultural characteristics reflect the Brazilian population. Elderly blacks are disadvantaged in socio-economic and demographic, clinical, functional and psychosocial aspects, reducing their social autonomy and functional independence. The decline in functional status due to variables associated with age and ethnicity can contribute to disabling events, such as falls. Socio-demographic, clinical and functional aspects related to falls were analyzed; Mobility, functional status and cognition were measured, with a statistical significance of pd '' 0.05. The sample of 196 elderly people was 48.5% white, 28% brown, 23.5% black, with an average of 69.9 years. There was reduced mobility classified as a medium risk for falls in 60% (p<0.013) among the elderly. With reference to groups analyzed, there were significant differences between variables for family income (p < 0.029), the occurrence of falls (p < 0.006), fear of falls (p < 0.023) and near-falls (p < 0.000). Blacks fall more often (p < 0.03). Statistical significance was revealed between ethnicity and self-reported occurrence of falls, fear of falling and the occurrence of near-falls, functional limitation and medium risk falls due to reduced mobility, with increased frequency of falls for elderly blacks

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements