This website pro­vides gen­eral infor­ma­tion and dis­cus­sion about med­i­cine, physiotherapy, health, and related sub­jects.  The words and other con­tent pro­vided in this website and in any linked mate­ri­als are not intended and should not be con­strued as med­ical advice. If the reader or any other per­son has a med­ical con­cern, he or she should con­sult with an appropriately-licensed physi­cian or other health care practitioner.

Never dis­re­gard pro­fes­sional med­ical advice or delay in seek­ing it because of some­thing you have read on this website or in any linked materials. If you think you may have a med­ical emer­gency, call your doc­tor or 000 immediately.

The views expressed on this website and its associated blog have no rela­tion to those of any academic, hospital, practice or other insti­tu­tion with which the authors are affiliated.

TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT

This Terms of Use Agree­ment (“agree­ment”) is entered between and by “you” (the reader or any other user of this website and blog, also known as Alina Filipe Nunes) and Alina Filipe Nune (“Principal author”). Access to the website or blog, and any use thereof, is sub­ject to the terms and con­di­tions set forth herein. By access­ing, read­ing or oth­er­wise using the website, you hereby agree to these terms and conditions.

This agree­ment con­tains dis­claimers and other pro­vi­sions that limit the Authors lia­bil­ity to you.  Please read these terms and con­di­tions fully and care­fully. If you do not agree to be bound to each and every term and con­di­tion set forth herein, please exit the website and do not access, read or oth­er­wise use infor­ma­tion pro­vided herein.

By access­ing the website and/or read­ing its con­tent, and/or using it to find infor­ma­tion on any other web­site or infor­ma­tional resource, you acknowl­edge and agree that you have read and under­stand these terms and con­di­tions, that the pro­vi­sions, dis­clo­sures and dis­claimers set forth herein are fair and rea­son­able, and that your agree­ment to fol­low and be bound by these terms and con­di­tions is vol­un­tary and is not the result of fraud, duress or undue influ­ence exer­cised upon you by any per­son or entity.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING MEDICAL ADVICE

The principal authors pro­vides the website, blog and any ser­vices, infor­ma­tion, opinions, con­tent, ref­er­ences and links to other knowl­edge resources (col­lec­tively, “Con­tent”) for infor­ma­tional pur­poses only. The authors do not pro­vide any med­ical advice on the website.

Access­ing, read­ing or oth­er­wise using the website does not cre­ate a physician-patient rela­tion­ship between you and the Principal authors. Pro­vid­ing per­sonal or med­ical infor­ma­tion to the principal authors does not cre­ate a physician-patient rela­tion­ship between you and the authors.

Noth­ing con­tained in the website or blog is intended to estab­lish a physician-patient rela­tion­ship, to replace the ser­vices of a trained physi­cian or health care pro­fes­sional, or oth­er­wise to be a sub­sti­tute for pro­fes­sional med­ical advice, diag­no­sis, or treatment.

You hereby agree that you shall not make any med­ical or health-related deci­sion based in whole or in part on any­thing con­tained in the website.  You should not rely on any infor­ma­tion con­tained in the website or blog and related mate­ri­als in mak­ing med­ical, health-related or other deci­sions.  You should con­sult a licensed physiotherapist or appropriately-credentialed health care worker in your com­mu­nity in all mat­ters relat­ing to your health.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING ONLINE SERVICES

Alina Filipe Nunes pro­vides online ser­vices and classes for infor­ma­tional and wellness pur­poses only. Our assessments and online services are based on the information you choose to share with us. While our director and physiotherapist will make every effort to assist you with the issues or problems you identify, you are in the best position to determine how relevant this information is to your situation. Services provided by Alina Filipe Nunes are not a substitute for independent professional advice from your own or another health professional.

While we make every effort to make sure the information and guidance we provide you online is accurate and informative, because we cannot do a physical assessment, the information does not take the place of professional or medical advice that does so.

Do not use our information to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease; for therapeutic purposes; as a substitute for the advice of a health professional.

We do not accept any liability for any injury, loss or damage caused by use of the information provided in our website or online consultations and live classes.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING WEBSITE CONTENT AND RELATED MATERIALS

The con­tent may be changed with­out notice and is not guar­an­teed to be com­plete, cor­rect, timely, cur­rent or up-to-date.  Sim­i­lar to any printed mate­ri­als, the con­tent may become out-of-date. The Authors under­take no oblig­a­tion to update any con­tent on the website.  The principal authors may update the con­tent at any time with­out notice, based on the principal authors sole and absolute dis­cre­tion. The principal authors reserve the right to make alter­ations or dele­tions to the con­tent at any time with­out notice.

Opin­ions expressed in the website are not nec­es­sar­ily those of the principal authors or team.  Any opin­ions of the principal authors have been con­sid­ered in the con­text of cer­tain con­di­tions and sub­ject to assump­tions that can­not nec­es­sar­ily be applied to an indi­vid­ual case or par­tic­u­lar cir­cum­stance.  The con­tent may not and should not be used or relied upon for any other pur­pose, includ­ing, but not lim­ited to, use in or in con­nec­tion with any legal proceeding.

From time to time, the website may con­tain health or medical-related infor­ma­tion that is sex­u­ally explicit. If you find this infor­ma­tion offen­sive, you may not want to use the website.

GUIDELINES FOR POSTING

This website is open to the pub­lic. You should con­sider com­ments care­fully and not post any infor­ma­tion or ideas that you would like to keep pri­vate.  By upload­ing or oth­er­wise mak­ing avail­able any infor­ma­tion to the principal authors in the form of user gen­er­ated com­ments or oth­er­wise, you grant the principal authors the unlim­ited, per­pet­ual right to dis­trib­ute, dis­play, pub­lish, repro­duce, reuse and copy the infor­ma­tion con­tained therein.

You are respon­si­ble for the com­ments you post. You may not imper­son­ate any other per­son through the website.  You may not post con­tent that is defam­a­tory, fraud­u­lent, obscene, threat­en­ing, inva­sive of another person’s pri­vacy rights or that is oth­er­wise unlaw­ful.  You may not post con­tent that infringes on the intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights of any other per­son or entity. You may not post any con­tent that includes any com­puter virus or other code designed to dis­rupt, dam­age, or limit the func­tion­ing of any com­puter soft­ware or hardware.

By sub­mit­ting or post­ing con­tent on the website, you grant the principal authors, team and any com­pany sub­stan­tially under the con­trol of the principal authors, the right to remove any con­tent or com­ment that, in the Principal authors sole judg­ment, does not com­ply with the terms and con­di­tions of this agree­ment or is oth­er­wise objec­tion­able.  You also grant the principal authors and any com­pany sub­stan­tially under the con­trol of principal authors the right to mod­ify, adapt, and edit any con­tent.

DISCLAIMER REGARDING THIRD PARTY LINKS

The website and blog may, from time to time, con­tain links to other (“third party”) web sites. These links are pro­vided solely as a con­ve­nience and not as a guar­an­tee or rec­om­men­da­tion by the Principal authors for the ser­vices, infor­ma­tion, opin­ion or any other con­tent on such third party web sites or as an indi­ca­tion of any affil­i­a­tion, spon­sor­ship or endorse­ment of such third party web sites.

If you decide to access a linked web­site, you do so at your own risk.  Your use of other web­sites is sub­ject to the terms of use for such sites.

The principal authors are not respon­si­ble for the con­tent of any linked or oth­er­wise con­nected web sites.  The principal authors do not make any rep­re­sen­ta­tions or guar­an­tees regard­ing the pri­vacy prac­tices of, or the con­tent or accu­racy of mate­ri­als included in, any linked or third party web­sites.  The inclu­sion of third party adver­tise­ments on the website does not con­sti­tute an endorse­ment, guar­an­tee, or rec­om­men­da­tion. The principal authors make no rep­re­sen­ta­tions and/or guar­an­tees regard­ing any prod­uct or ser­vice con­tained therein.

DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES

Con­tent made avail­able at the website and blog is pro­vided on an “as is” and “as avail­able” basis with­out war­ranties of any kind, either express or implied. Under no cir­cum­stances, as a result of your use of the website, will the principal authors be liable to you or to any other per­son for any direct, indi­rect, inci­den­tal, con­se­quen­tial, spe­cial, exem­plary or other dam­ages under any legal the­ory, includ­ing, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, tort, con­tract, strict lia­bil­ity or oth­er­wise, even if advised of the pos­si­bil­ity of such damages.

AGE RESTRICTION

The website is intended for per­sons eigh­teen (18) years or older. Per­sons under the age of eigh­teen (18) should not access, use and/or browse the website unless supervised by an adult carer.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indem­nify and hold the authors harm­less from any claim or demand, includ­ing attor­neys’ fees, made by any third party as a result of (1) any con­tent posted or made avail­able by you on this website and blog, (2) any vio­la­tion of law that occurs by you through the website, and/or (3) any­thing you do using the website and/or the con­tent con­tained therein.

MODIFICATION

The authors may mod­ify the terms and con­di­tions of this agree­ment in whole or in party at any time for any rea­son with­out any notice to you, based on her dis­cre­tion.   Such mod­i­fied terms and con­di­tions shall super­sede these terms and con­di­tions and shall become bind­ing when pub­lished online on the website.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

You accept that this agree­ment rep­re­sents the entire under­stand­ing between you and Alina Filipe Nunes and the authors con­cern­ing use of the website.

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