Prevalence and Correlates of Health Risk Behaviors among University Students from a State in the Southern Region of Brazil.

Background: Surveys conducted in different regions of the world show that the prevalence rates of health risk behaviors (HRBs) in university students are sometimes higher than those found in non-university populations. This study aims to identify the prevalence rates and demographic and academic environment correlates associated with HRBs among Brazilian university students.

Methods: In a cross-sectional epidemiological study, a random sample of 5310 university students answered an online questionnaire, with demographic (sex, age, skin color, marital status, and paid work) and academic setting information (housing type, size of campus, year, and shift of study), as well as items clustered in four HRB domains: personal safety and violence, sexual behavior and contraception, addictive substance use, eating habits, physical activity, and sleep.

Effects of Dual Task Training and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial.

Objective: Compare the effectiveness of active and sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) during the training of a dual task in children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP).

Methods: Thirty children with CP were submitted to ten sessions of either active ( = 15) or sham ( = 15) tDCS over the motor cortex for 20 minutes during the training of a dual task. Pre-intervention, post-intervention and follow-up evaluations involved measures of functional performance, intellectual performance, functional mobility and cortical excitability.

Pediatric Vestibular Rehabilitation: A Case Study.

Background: A 9-year-old child with a 9-month history of complaints of dizziness, headache, and motion sensitivity came to physical therapy. The child complained of difficulties playing on a playground, running, riding in a car, watching "action movies," sitting under fluorescent lights, and making quick head movements.

Methods: An initial evaluation included a clinical oculomotor examination, vergence testing, static and dynamic visual acuity testing, head impulse testing, subjective visual vertical, balance testing, the pediatric vestibular symptom questionnaire, the Dizziness Handicap Inventory-child caregivers version (DHI-PC) and a visual vertigo analog scale.

A single set of exhaustive exercise before local muscular endurance training improves quadriceps strength and endurance in young men.

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an additional set of exhaustive exercise before local muscular endurance (LME) training on maximal dynamic strength and endurance of quadriceps muscle in young men.

Methods: Twenty-seven healthy men (age: 20.9±1.