Women's Health and Biomechanics

Improving Women´s Health via the Bio-Psycho-Social Model.- Section 1: The Young Women.- Sports and UI.- Pelvic Floor Evaluation in Sports.- Diagnostic Devices.- Section 2: The Reproductive Period of Women´s Life.- Pregnancy and Ergonomics.- The changes in Biomechanics due to Pregnancy and Parity.- Ultrasound Imaging Assessment of diastasis recti.- Biomechanical Analysis of the Damage in the Pelvic Floor Muscles During Childbirth.- Breast Imaging: from Morphology to Tissue Structure.- The Effects of Mastectomy and Reconstruction on Body Posture and Biomechanics.- The Role of Physiotherapy in Women with Breast Cancer.- Breast Implants: Far Beyond Just Aesthetic Surgery.- The Female Pelvic Floor (Dysfunction): from Clinical Practice to Biomechanics.- Imaging Female Pelvic Floor Dysfunction.- Section 3: The Older Women.- Searching for Biomechanical Tissue Properties in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction by Computational Modeling.- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction / Urinary Incontinence: Rehabilitation Treatments and the Improvement in Quality-of-Life.- The Role of Ultrasound Imaging of Musculotendinous Structures in the Elderly Population.- Mental Health and Physical Activity.

Sofia Brandão RT, PhD is a radiographer at the CHSJ-EPE. She received her BSc and Graduation in Radiological Sciences in the Oporto Polytechnic Institute, a PostGrad and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering, and a MSc in Medical Informatics by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oporto. For the past 13 years, she is an Assistant Professor at a private Health Sciences School (CESPU,Crl).The main research interest is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). She has participated in different PhD and Post-doc Projects in the context of the MR protocol optimization and acquisition. She has received a Training Scholarship at the University Hospital of Tübingen, and several awards in national and international conferences. She has over 23 peer-reviewed publications, including a book chapter. She performed more than 30 talks on technical aspects of clinical MRI and computational analysis of the pelvic floor. Thuane Da Roza PT, PhDis Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) with an appointment as Staff in the Biomechanics Laboratory of Health Sciences and Sports Center. She received her BSc and Graduation in Physiotherapy Science by the College of Health and Sport Science of the UDESC, an MSc and PhD in Physical Activity and Health by the Faculty of Sport at the University of Porto. She is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the College of Health and Sport Science, in Brazil, in conjunction with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Oporto, Portugal. Da Roza has over 30 peer-reviewed publications, has participated in a book chapter and performed over 50 lectures regarding pelvic floor function and biomechanics. The focus of her 10-years research career has been on pelvic floor structure and function, mainly through computational modeling and with female athletes. In addition, she was the first to demonstrate the effect of a comprehensive pelvic floor muscles training