Thoracic Spine Pain and Factors Associated in High School Students.

Background: Thoracic spine pain (TSP) is relatively common in children and adolescents.

Aims: To determine the prevalence of TSP in adolescents and analyze its association with sociodemographic characteristics, use of electronic devices, physical activity, and mental health.

Design: Cross-sectional epidemiological study.

Incidence and factors associated with low back pain in adolescents: A prospective study.

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a common complaint among children and adolescents and can negatively impact their physical and mental health. Although previous studies investigating the incidence of low back pain (LBP) in children and adolescents have been performed in high income countries, it is unclear whether countries such as Brazil would show similar incidence rates.

Objective: To determine the incidence and to identify predictors of new episodes of LBP in high school students.

Activity limitations in leprosy and their association to cognition and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Objectives: to analyze activity limitations in patients with leprosy and their association to cognition and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Methods: this cross-sectional design study included sixty patients with multibacillary leprosy assisted at a reference center. Participants were divided according to their physical disability and submitted to instruments assessing daily activities (basic and instrumental), cognitive functions, and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Neck pain and associated factors in a sample of high school students in the city of Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil: cross-sectional study.

Background: Neck pain is a major public health problem.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of neck pain among high school students and to analyze associations with sociodemographic variables, use of electronic devices, habitual physical activity practices and mental health problems.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional epidemiological study on a sample of high school students in the city of Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil.

A Controlled Clinical Trial on the Effects of Exercise on Cognition and Mobility in Adults With Multiple Sclerosis.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of a 6-mo exercise program on cognition and mobility in participants with multiple sclerosis.

Design: This is a prospective, single-blind, controlled clinical trial.

Setting: A community rehabilitation program within a large metropolitan health service.

Benefits of Exercise on the Executive Functions in People with Parkinson Disease: A Controlled Clinical Trial.

Objective: We have made a 3-arm trial (group vs. individual exercise vs. no treatment) to test the effects of a 6-month exercise program upon the executive functions in participants with Parkinson disease.