None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
During the infancy, the posture undergoes many adjustments related to growth stages due to changes of the body proportions. The formation of the body schema, in childhood, occurs through the motor experiences and allows the tonic-postural structuration, so the postural imbalance obtained in this period can last for the entire adolescence and adult life. The purpose of this study was to characterize quantitatively the posture of children between 7 and 8 years of age and to verify the difference between sex and age for the analyzed postural aspects.
Interventions
quantitative assessment of posture of head, shoulder (frontal and sagittal planes), scapula, thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis, spine lateral deviation, pelvis, knee (frontal and sagittal planes), ankle, footprint, fingertip-to-floor test. Duration of observations was 20 minutes
Sponsors
Patrícia Jundi Penha
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
7 Years to 8 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
healthy children, with Body Mass Index under 85th percentile (Cole, 2000), without spine lateral deviation in “S”, and that practice physic exercise no often than twice per week and/or than three hours per week
Exclusion criteria
children with neuromuscular, musculoskeletal and heart-breath pathologies, with spine lateral deviation in “S” kind, with BMI above 85th percentile (Cole, 2000) and that practiced institucional sport or physcic exercise more than Physical Education, more often than twice per week and/or more than three hours per week
Outcome results
None listed