About Dr.Thiago Fukuda

He is currently Clinical Director of TRATA Institute – Knee and Hip.

Graduated in Physiotherapy in 2001 and Specialist (postgraduate) in neuro-muscle-skeletal Physiotherapy by the Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo – ISCMSP (2003)

Master in Biomedical Engineering from the University de Mogi das Cruzes – UMC (2006)

Doctor of Sciences by the Surgery and Experimentation program of Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP (2011)

PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Southern California – USC (2013)

Lecturer at Centro Universitário São Camilo – CUSC and Physiotherapist of the Brazilian Women’s Soccer Team

He was Adjunct Professor of Post-graduation in skeletal muscle Physiotherapy – ISCMSP and Supervisor of the Group of Knee, Hip, Sports Traumatology and Pediatric Orthopedics – ISCMSP

Winner of the EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AWARD awards for the best article published in 2010 and EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL INQUIRY in 2011 in the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT).

Member of the National Sports Physiotherapy Society (SONAFE). It has more than 60 national and international publications with emphasis on Rehabilitation in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Knee and Hip, Sports Traumatology and Electrothermofototerapia.

Scientific articles

• Adding motor control training to muscle strengthening did not substantially improve the effects on clinical or kinematic outcomes in women with patellofemoral pain (Gait and Posture 2017)
• A Comparison of Hip Strength Between Sedentary Females With and Without PFPS
• Immediate eff ect of the elastic knee sleeve
  use on individuals with osteoarthritis
• Comparison of peak torque, intensity and discomforto generated by NMES (IES 2013)
• Comparison of ankle isometric strength in PFPS (IJSPT 2014)
• Combined Therapy – Ultrasound and IFC in fybromyalgia – PRI 2011
• Award Winners Emphasize Movement, Conservative Interventions (Premiação)
• Angulo poplíteo (iliopsoas)
• Aferição de equipamentos laser (RBF) 2010 ingles
• A new technique in double‐bundle ACL reconstruction (KSSTA 2015)
• Efficacy of Kinesio tapping in patients with lowback pain – RCT (BMC 2013)
• Efficacy of low level laser therapy in knee OA – a RCT (Clinical Rehabilitation)
• EMG activity of the masseter and temporal muscles in mal occlusion (IJMMS 2012)
• EMG x RMS (Fukuda)
• Effect of Resisted Exercise on Muscular Strength, Spasticity and Functionality in Chronic Hemiparetic Subjects: A Systematic Review
• Excellence in Research Award (JOSPT 2010)
• Exercises with partial vascular occlusion in knee OA – Knee 2016-2
• Extensor indicis brevis Muscle an Unusual Muscular Variant
• Hip Posterolateral Musculature Strengthening in Sedentary Women – 1 year follow-up (JOSPT 2012)
• Infrared low-level diode laser on inflammatory process (LMS 2013)
• Interferencial em cervicalgia – EMG (Jarcet 2011)
• Isometric Strength Ratios of the Hip Musculature in PFPS. JSCR 2013
• JOSPT 2013 (IV Meeting Ibramed)
• Kinesio in quadriceps strength (PT in Sport) 2015
• Kinesio Taping Does Not Provide Additional Bene ts in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Who Receive Exercise and Manual Therapy- A Randomized Controlled Trial Kinetic and kinematic analysis during single-hop test in PFPS (JOSPT 2015)
• Single Session to Infrared Low Level Diode Laser on TNF-a and IL-6 Cytokines Release by Mononuclear Spleen Cells in Mice: A Pilot Study
• A New Method For Hemorrhoid Surgery: Intrahemorrhoidal Diode Laser, Does It Work
• Infrared low-level diode laser on serum chemokine MCP-1 modulation in mice
• Lasers in Surgery (pdf)
• LBI (780nm) X VEGF – 2016
• Supracondylar Femur Fracture During Jump After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Arthroscopic Reconstruction
• LCA (Star Balance Test) Derrick
• LLLT in IL-1β, COX-2, and PGE2 modulation in partially injured Achilles tendon
• LLLT on tissue repair of partially injured achilles tendon in rats – LSM 2014
  
• Neuromuscular training in PFPS – Protocol (BMC 2014)
• Nonsurgical Treatment of Acetabular Labrum Tears – A Case Series
• Open kinetic chain exercises in restricted ROM after ACL reconstruction (AJSM 2013)
• Paper Laser (dosimetria)
• PEMF and Exercises in Patients With Shoulder Impingement (APMR 2014)
• Posterior shoulder tightness and rotator cuff strength assessments in painful shoulders of amateur tennis players (RBF 2013)
• Pulsed Short Waves in Knee OA (PTJ 2011)
• Radiological examination of the hip (IJSPT 2014)
• Rehabilitation program in type I floating knee – A case series 01
• Rehabilitation program in type I floating knee – A case series 02
• Sagittal plane pelvis motion influences transverse plane motion of the femur – Kinematic coupling at the hip joint (Gait and Posture 2015)
• Scapular Dyskinesis (IJSPT 2016)
• Short term effects in PFPS (RCT)  JOSPT 2010
• Short term efficacy of LLLT in knee OA – RBO 2011 Inglês
• Short term efficacy of LLLT in knee OA – RBO 2011 Português
• Rotator Cuff Strength in Subjects with shoulder impingement syndrome compared with the asymptomatic side
• Upper trapezius relaxation by TENS and IFC – EMG analysis (JBMR 2015)
• Use of the Gait Deviation Index and spatiotemporal
• Hip mobilization on strength in subjects with knee injuries (MSP 2019)
• Photobiomodulation of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Rat Calcaneal Tendons (2019)