AVALIAÇÃO DOS DESVIOS POSTURAIS EM CRIANÇAS COM IDADE ESCOLAR DE 11 A 16 ANOS

Abstract

Students' postural vices were diagnosed. Observations were carried out in private and public schools in Maringá with 2.413 children in the 5th and 8th classes in the morning period during twenty minutes in each classroom. The research is of the descriptive kind, and the results were obtained through studies with both sexes. The body alignment of children was observed while they were standing, in profile, head-on and backwards according to the "New York Postural Test" (Rocha, 1986), Literature review makes references to facts and aspects connected with postural deviations and shows that, few articles were published about this subject. Statistical analysis about postural data, was performed through the Bilateral Test for difference between proportion (Spiegel, 1978). A significative difference was observed with one postural deviation at private schools and more than one postural deviation at public schools. We are influenced by bad posture, excessive physical growth, little stimulus in classroom, and lack of knowledge on how to sit and lay properly.