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The aim of this review is to analyze the effectiveness of preoperative physical therapy to strengthen the quadriceps and optimize postoperative functional recovery in athletes with complete anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures. Method: Controlled clinical trials, prospective randomized controlled trials, and cohort studies involving adults aged 18–50 years were considered. Data were independently collected from PubMed, PEDro, and SCOPUS databases. Information was synthesized into a PRISM...

The Larrea citadel is located in the north center of the Metropolitan District of Quito. It can be seen that it is a sector where population density has decreased considerably for different reasons, which can be seen that since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the new modalities of work, study and housing changed this sector drastically. With the new modalities, problems arise for the inhabitants of this sector, since it is becoming a place that works at different times of the day, affect...

The present project starts from the understanding of Puembo as an area in expansion and future growth, considering housing as a basic need, which seeks to differentiate itself from those projects of segregating character and that deny the context, which are an example of the first collective housing interventions in the territory. In response to this territorial characteristic, the projection of a single-family housing complex arises, which allows the new inhabitants to maintain an adequa...

This research proposes the architectural rehabilitation of a modern reinforced-concrete office building constructed in 1960 and located in Quito’s hypercenter, transforming it into a collective housing model. The thesis emerges from observing the progressive vacancy of the urban center alongside a growing housing demand that pushes residents toward peripheral areas, precarizing the act of inhabiting the city as a whole. Within this context, the project proposes the reactivation of the bui...