Health, Quality of Life and Sport Rehabilitation — Part II

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Sports Medicine".

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Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this Special Issue is to specify the principles of mathematics and mechanics required to explore and understand biological problems. This may entail augmented human research, permitting the optimization of human behavior. Our objective is to summarize the most important parameters that influence human performance related to the health sciences for all age groups throughout their lives. We are interested in papers that aim to promote the latest research in the fields of health, quality of life improvement, sport rehabilitation, and those that summarize their recommendations for best practices. Helping to prevent functional decline and frailty following a life course perspective approach, the utilization of the latest research, applied to health in general, is of great importance, as is its application targeted at all stages of life and aimed at prevention, the improvement of performance, and the management of diseases. The modeling, simulation, quantification, and computing of the musculoskeletal system permit us to quantify and improve the discriminate parameters, characterizing movement in different cases such as sport level, work, and patients’ daily lives. The aim, therefore, of this Special Issue is to effectively combine and coordinate research and results in order to understand and improve human movement in medicine, sport, and at work.

Prof. Dr. Redha Taiar
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Keywords

  • human behavior
  • musculoskeletal disorders
  • injury
  • rehabilitation
  • healthcare
  • musculoskeletal system
  • wearable technologies
  • augmented human
  • biological problems
  • sport
  • quality of life
  • sport science
  • sport medicine

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Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Sleep Quality Evaluated by Wrist Actigraphy: A Systematic Review
by Luiz Felipe Ferreira-Souza, Marize Julianelli-Peçanha, Ana Carolina Coelho-Oliveira, Christianne Martins Corrêa da Silva Bahia, Laisa Liane Paineiras-Domingos, Aline Reis-Silva, Márcia Cristina Moura-Fernandes, Luiza Carla Trindade-Gusmão, Redha Taiar, Danubia da Cunha Sá-Caputo, Amandine Rapin and Mario Bernardo-Filho
J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12(3), 1182; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/jcm12031182 - 02 Feb 2023
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COVID-19 has probably contributed as a risk factor for sleep disturbance. Actigraphy has been used to evaluate sleep complaints in self-isolated populations and frontline doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic. This systematic review aims to summarize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep [...] Read more.
COVID-19 has probably contributed as a risk factor for sleep disturbance. Actigraphy has been used to evaluate sleep complaints in self-isolated populations and frontline doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic. This systematic review aims to summarize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep through wrist actigraphy, estimating sleep latency, total sleep time, awakening-after-sleep onset, and sleep efficiency. Searches were conducted of observational studies on the PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and PEDro databases from 1 December 2019 to 31 December 2022. Ninety articles were found, and given the eligibility criteria, fifteen were selected. Six studies were classified by the National Health and Medical Research Council as evidence level IV, two studies as level III-3, and seven studies as level III-2. According to the ACROBAT-NRSI instrument, three studies were classified as having a “serious” risk of bias, two as having “critical” risk, four as having “moderate” risk, and six as having “low” risk. In the selected publications, various populations were evaluated via actigraphy during the COVID-19 pandemic, with reports of “poor” sleep quality. Actigraphy may be a relevant tool to assess individual day–night rhythms and provide recommendations under enduring pandemic conditions. Moreover, as actigraphy presents objective data for sleep evaluations, it is suggested that this method be used in similar pandemics and that actigraphy be included as part of the sleep hygiene strategy. Full article
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