Barreto, Eduardo Silva Reis https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4688-8857
Antunes Júnior, César Romero https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1701-5279
Teixeira, Thiago Rhangel Gomes https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1287-0620
Botelho, Valéria Lima https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8021-7012
Daltro, Paula Braga https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1545-7786
Daltro, Gildásio de Cerqueira https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-7953
Article History
Received: 4 March 2025
Accepted: 15 August 2025
First Online: 30 August 2025
Declarations
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: All authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: This study is part of the project entitled: “Analysis of the Clinical and Epidemiological Profile of Patients in Outpatient Follow-up at the Orthopedic and Traumatology service of the Professor Edgard Santos Hospital Complex”. It was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Professor Edgard Santos University Hospital under opinion number 3.720.206. All eligible patients were invited to participate during their routine care. They received an informed consent form for reading, clarifying doubts with the investigators, and subsequently signing if they agreed to participate.