CV Lattes
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Leticia Calixtre got her PhD degree in Physiotherapy in 2018, from the post-graduation program in Physiotherapy at the Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar. For one year, she did an internship in the Netherlands at the Academic Centre of Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) with financial support of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). She was a postdoctorate fellow at the Faculty of Dentistry of Araraquara (UNESP) and at UFSCar with CAPES-Print funding. Her main topic of research is the regional interdependency between neck and jaw and how this how it influences temporomandibular disorders, neck pain and headache. She has academic and clinical experience in physical therapy with emphasis on orofacial pain and manual therapy. Currently she has a post-doctoral fellowship on the Research Laboratory in Health and Functional Performance, at the University of Pernambuco, Petrolina. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The role of physiotherapy has been increasingly important in the treatment of temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). In the physiotherapist clinical setting, for practical reasons, the motion analysis is often based on observation. However, in order to systematically quantify different kinematic aspects, it was necessary to create more objective methods that would provide a three dimensional…
Patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) commonly present pain, noises and limitations or deviations during mouth opening, and limitations of mandibular function. Moreover, they often report comorbid disorders, such as neck pain or headaches while migraine and tension type headache are the most common types. There are increasing number of studies approaching the treatment of those …
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