Women with orgasmic difficulties are commonly taught pubococcygeal (PC) muscle exercises which, practiced regularly, are said to have both specific and nonspecific beneficial effects on sexual enjoyment. The hypothesis tested was that women practicing these exercises over a 12-week period, would be more likely to become orgasmic than women practicing relaxation exercises, or than women in an attention-control group. Forty-six women were allocated to one of three groups, PC exercise, relaxation or control. PC muscle tone was measured and questionnaires about sexual response were completed over a 12-week period with a 6-month follow-up assessment. Results indicated that there was no difference in orgasmic outcome for the three groups during the experimental period. This was taken to imply that PC exercises are not of specific value for women with normal muscle tone. It remains possible that women with poor muscle tone are helped by the exercises and further research is considered necessary in this area.

Conflict of interest: non-existent in the areas that are responsible for understandable and / or expression, oral and / or written language 1,2 .In aphasia, all the aspects of language that were mentioned before are affected, however, that does not indicate a disease but rather a multimodal neurophysiologic disorder that is manifested by difficulties in reading, speaking and / or even writing together with changes in terms of behavior, intellectual and emotional spheres, attitudes and persona-lity³. Aphasic individuals can present since a slight language change, such as anomia (difficulty of evoking or emitting names) to more severe changes, like losing the ability of emitting any linguistic signal 4 .The impairment caused by aphasia varies depending on the location and extent of the lesion. The higher the affected brain region is, the greater is the risk of sequelae. In relation to the location, one author states that 95% of right handed and 75% of the left handed individuals specialize the left hemisphere (LH) for language, being that, then, ABSTRACTThe purpose of this article was doing a report case of an aphasic client subjected to speech therapy in the clinic of a Speech Pathology and Audiology course of a federal university. The studied subject is a male patient, aged 68, treated in the clinic since May 2009. His therapeutic process was analyzed up to December 2010. The client suffered an ischemic stroke in the left cerebral hemisphere, on January 2009, when suddenly presented mutism. After the evaluations, the therapist concluded that the client presented "aphasia, compromising the oral and the writing expression, caused by ischemic stroke". So, the treatment plan was created. Since the start of therapy, significant linguistic changes could be observed in the client. A primary factor for the satisfactory recover was the quick search for the speech treatment (15 days after the stroke), because there is a degree of spontaneous recovery in aphasic clients. But, the good results are minimal without the adequate therapy. Only one month after the beginning of the therapy, the client improved substantially his vocabulary. Despite the injury area is extensive and fundamental to the language, it was observed very positive results with the therapy. So, we believe that the early speech therapy contributed a lot to the linguistic recover, since the client communicate satisfactorily, if we consider the great extension of his injury.

The SG showed a lower response level of DPOAE at all frequencies and high levels of biomarkers of EO, however there was no association between assessments.

Introdução: A epidemia do coronavírus, causada pelo SARS-CoV 2, atingiu a marca de 5,1 milhões de mortes em todo o mundo até novembro de 2021. O vírus acometeu diferentes perfis da população, porém não se tem dados referentes às características demográficas dos pacientes internados em terapia intensiva. Objetivo: Descrever o perfil dos pacientes que foram tratados com COVID-19 na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva do Hospital Universitário e avaliar quais variáveis tiveram mais relação com mortalidade desses pacientes. Metodologia: É um estudo transversal descritivo-analítico exploratório. Os dados foram coletados no período de novembro de 2020 a março de 2021, 93 pacientes que foram internados na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) do Hospital Universitários (HU) pela COVID-19. Resultado e discussão: Avaliando 93 pacientes, com média de idade de 60,4 ± 14,6 anos (sendo 47 do sexo masculino) , com IMC médio de 31,4, sendo 52,7% de hipertensos, 47,3% obesos, e 25,8% diabéticos. Encontramos uma correlação entre mortalidade e idade (62,4x54,8; p:0,009). A correlação entre tempo de internação avaliado por mediana e desfecho óbito também se mostrou significativa (9x5,5; p:0,014). As comorbidades mais recorrentes foram a hipertensão a mais prevalente, seguido da obesidade. O tempo de internação em UTI foi menor em função do quadro clínico agravado e a idade dos pacientes. Conclusão: O estudo mostrou que pacientes idosos e com comorbidades apresentaram um pior prognóstico da doença, corroborando com outros estudos já realizados.

Resumo: Objetivo -Correlacionar os indicadores de risco para deficiência auditiva (IRDA) com a "falha" na Triagem Auditiva Neonatal (TAN Correlation of risk indicators for hearing loss with newborn hearing screening impairmentsAbstract: Purpose -To correlate the risk indicators for hearing loss (RIHL) with the newborn hearing screening (NHS) "impairments". Method -The sample consisted of 1889 newborns that went to the university hospital (Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria HUSM) to perform the NHS. The RIHL, the transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOE) and the eye blink reflex (EBR) were researched.The study included only children who failed the NHS. Results -169 children (8,9%) failed NHS and 69 (40,82%) presented one or more RIHL. From the newborn with RIHL, 28 (40,57%) presented RIHL when isolated and 41 (59,42%) presented association of them. Limit significance (0.05