Risk and return: The international expansion of EDP Renováveis

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a tool for analysis of the effect of physical therapy on spasticity in HAM/TSP patients

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to evaluate spasticity in human T-lymphotropic virus type 1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) patients before and after physical therapy using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). METHODS: Nine subjects underwent physical therapy. Spasticity was evaluated using the Modified Ashworth Scale. The obtained scores were converted into ICF body functions scores. RESULTS: The majority of subjects had a high degree of spasticity in the quadriceps muscles. According to the ICF codes, the spasticity decreased after 20 sessions of physical therapy. CONCLUSIONS: The ICF was effective in evaluating spasticity in HAM/TSP patients.

Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

no. 11 (1920)

Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

no. 6, Rev. ed. ((1924)

Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

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Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

no. 5 (1915)

Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

no. 1 (1911)

Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

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Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

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Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

no. 6 (1915)

Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

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Memoirs of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.

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Reptiles collected in Salvador for the California Institute of Technology, by Karl P. Schmidt.

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