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Cláudia Tarragô Candotti
Researcher at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Publications - 179
Citations - 1668
Cláudia Tarragô Candotti is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. The author has contributed to research in topics: Back pain & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 163 publications receiving 1418 citations. Previous affiliations of Cláudia Tarragô Candotti include Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos.
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Prevalence of postural changes in high school students in a city in southern Brazil
Cíntia Detsch,Anna Maria Hecker Luz,Cláudia Tarragô Candotti,Daniela Scotto de Oliveira,Franciane Lazaron,Lisiane Kiefer Guimarães,Patrícia Schimanoski +6 more
TL;DR: Preocupa a alta prevalencia de alteracoes na postura das adolescentes, uma vez that essas alteracoe podem gerar problemas na coluna vertebral a medio e longo prazo.
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Validity and Reproducibility of the Measurements Obtained Using the Flexicurve Instrument to Evaluate the Angles of Thoracic and Lumbar Curvatures of the Spine in the Sagittal Plane
Tatiana Scheeren de Oliveira,Cláudia Tarragô Candotti,Marcelo La Torre,Patricia Paula Tonin Pelinson,Tássia Silveira Furlanetto,Fernanda Machado Kutchak,Jefferson Fagundes Loss +6 more
TL;DR: The results show that there is no significant difference between the values obtained using the flexicurve and those obtaining using the X-ray procedure and that there was a strong correlation between the two methods.
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Effective force and economy of triathletes and cyclists
Cláudia Tarragô Candotti,Jerri Luiz Ribeiro,Denise Soares,Álvaro Reischak de Oliveira,Jefferson Fagundes Loss,Antônio Carlos S Guimarães +5 more
TL;DR: Cyclists produced significantly more effective force and a higher index of pedalling effectiveness at 60 and 75 rev/min and were significantly more economic at all cadences than triathletes, suggesting that improvement of the effective force would reflect on economy.
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Back pain and body posture evaluation instrument (BackPEI): development, content validation and reproducibility.
TL;DR: The Back Pain and Body Posture Evaluation Instrument for school-age children constitutes a valid and reproducible instrument which is relevant for the evaluation of back pain and its associated risk factors.
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Back pain prevalence and associated factors in children and adolescents: an epidemiological population study
Matias Noll,Matias Noll,Cláudia Tarragô Candotti,Bruna Nichele da Rosa,Jefferson Fagundes Loss +4 more
TL;DR: The multivariate analysis showed that back pain is associated with the variables: sex, parents with back pain, weekly frequency of physical activity, daily time spent watching television, studying in bed, sitting posture to write and use the computer, and way of carrying the backpack.