Inquérito sobre a mobilidade articular entre universitários de 18 a 25 anos

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Antonio, Darcisio Hortelan [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Disturbios do movimento; Articulações - Hipermobilidade; Qualidade de vida - Questionários; Joints- Hypermobility
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/127989; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/21-09-2015/000847835.pdf

Background: Hypermobility is defined as a wide range of motion beyond the physiological limits. It has been recognized in healthy people, in ballet dancers and in connective tissue genetic diseases. More recently, it has been associated to chronic widespread pain, dysautonomia, and gastrointestinal dysmotility. Approximately 25-50% of children younger than 10 years have some degree of hypermobility, it is more common in girls decreasing incidence with age. There are population-based studies in children and adolescents, but the reports of frequency and impact of hypermobility in youngsters are scarce. Objective: Describe the frequency of joint hypermobility in youngsters through a survey, to estimate its functional impact and quality of life by SF-36 health questionnaire. Methods: Volunteers from 18 to 25 years were recruited from a local medical and a physical therapy schools. They were requested to fill out a 5-parts hypermobility questionnaire, physical activity practice and the Brazilian version of the SF-36 health questionnaire. They performed an instructed self-exam to score Beighton criteria for hypermobility. Beighton criteria scores the extension beyond range of 180 degrees in the knees and elbows, extension of 5o fingers beyond 90 degrees, extension of thumbs to touch the forearms, spine flexion to touch hands opened to the ground. All data were recorded by one assessor. Results: Of the 388 subjects included, 299 were women (77.06%) and 89 men (22.94%), with a median age 23 years, mean weight 64.5 ± 15.7 Kg, mean height 1.66 ± 0.09 m. The mean body mass index (BMI) was 23.2 ± 4.5. Generalized joint hypermobility was observed in 104 (26.8%). Localized joint hypermobility was observed in 135 (34.79%) subjects. Overall, fifth finger hypermobility was the most frequent, being reported in 165 (57.47%), followed by the thumbs with 126 (32.56%), elbows and knees with 72 each (18.6%) and column with 69 (17.79%). The correlations ...