GUILHERME CARLOS BRECH
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LIM/41 - Laboratório de Investigação Médica do Sistema Músculoesquelético, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Is 12 months enough to reach function after athletes? ACL reconstruction: a prospective longitudinal study(2022) FELIX, Ellen Cristina Rodrigues; ALONSO, Angelica Castilho; BRECH, Guilherme Carlos; FERNANDES, Tiago Lazzaretti; ALMEIDA, Adriano Marques de; LUNA, Natalia Mariana Silva; SOARES-JUNIOR, Jose Maria; BARACAT, Edmund Chada; HERNANDEZ, Arnaldo Jose; GREVE, Julia Maria D'AndreaContext: Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury is disabling in several sports because it causes knee instability and functional deficit. Usually, surgical treatments produce the best functional outcomes, however, sometimes they are not always able to fully restore stability and function.Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate postural balance, muscle strength, and functional perfor-mance of young athletes with an ACL injury before and after ACL reconstruction. Design: This was a longitudinal observational prospective study. Method: 74 athletes, 60 men, and 14 women, aged between 16 and 45, divided into two groups: the Group-Lesion of ACL with 34 athletes (24.1 years) and the Group-Control with 40 athletes without ACL lesion (27.7 years old). All volunteers performed posturography, isokinetic dynamometry, and the Hop-Test. The ACL-Group was evalu-ated before and 12 months after the reconstruction and the control group was evaluated once.Results: The Postoperative ACL Group presented greater limb symmetry, 0.96 (+/- 0.12), than the preoperative ACL Group, 0.87 (+/- 0.17), p < 0.01 in the Hop-Test. In the posturography, the displacement area was smaller in the postoperative ACL Group, 19.85 (+/- 5.74), compared to the preoperative ACL Group, 24.20 (+/- 8.97), p < 0.01. In isokinetic dynamometry the torque peak was greater in the postoperative ACL Group, 0.91 (+/- 0.14), than in the preoperative ACL Group, 0.74 (+/- 0.15), p < 0.01.Conclusion: The functional outcomes increased in ACL reconstruction athletes after 12 months, but not at the same level as in the Control Group. The result indicates an incomplete functional recovery, adaptive changes in postural control after injury, reconstruction, and return to sport.
- Influence of invertor and evertor muscle fatigue on functional jump tests and postural control: A prospective cross-sectional study(2022) CASTILLO, Gabriela Borin; BRECH, Guilherme Carlos; LUNA, Natalia Mariana Silva; TARALLO, Fernanda Botta; SOARES-JUNIOR, Jose Maria; BARACAT, Edmund Chada; ALONSO, Angelica Castilho; GREVE, Julia Maria D'AndreaObjective: Fatigue of the ankle's stabilizing muscles may influence the performance of functional activities and postural control. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance of healthy young adults using functional jump tests and static posturography control under pre-and post-fatigue conditions of the ankle invertor and evertor muscles. Methods: Thirty physically active healthy male and female (15 male and 15 female) volunteers (24.3 years) were enrolled in this prospective cross-sectional study. Participants performed tests on one day under a non-fatigued state of invertor and evertor muscles and on the second day in a fatigued state. Tests included static posturography on a force platform in a bipedal stance with eyes open and closed and in one-legged support with eyes open and functional jump tests (figure-of-8, side hop, 6-m crossover hop, and square hop). Fatigue of the ankle invertor and evertor muscles was induced using isokinetic dynamometry with 30 repetitions at 120 degrees/s. Results: Participants had an average age of 24.3 years (SD +/- 2.08), the height of 1.73 m (SD +/- 0.08), and a weight of 68.63 kg (SD +/- 10.29). The average Body Mass Index (BMI) was 22.88 (SD +/- 2.46). A decrease in performance was observed in functional activities and postural control under all conditions after the induction of muscle fatigue, except for the speed at a bipedal stance with eyes open. Conclusions: Functional jump tests are low cost and useful for clinical practice and evaluation of the effects of muscle fatigue and could be used in clinical practice.