Prevalência de alterações posturais em acadêmicos do curso de Fisioterapia pelo uso excessivo do celular

• Autor(a) principal: Darela, Danielle da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Universitário da Ânima (RUNA)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/16168
• topic: Postura; Smartphone; Fisioterapia

Introduction: Posture can be defined by the body position that the man adopts and that directly influences his life due to his bad habits. Cell phones have gained more and more space in people's daily lives, especially among young people, where they have been the main cause of neck and shoulder pain.The head forward with a look down causes a mechanical overload on the ligaments of the cervical spine and also on the joints of the spine, leading to a phenomenon known as '' text neck '', which would be an explanation for the increased prevalence of cervical pain. Objectives: To verify the prevalence of postural changes in students of the Physiotherapy course at the University of the South of Santa Catarina in Tubarão due to the excessive use of cell phones. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional and quantitative study. Sample composed by 33 students of the physiotherapy course at the University of the South of Santa Catarina in Tubarão-SC. The research took place through a questionnaire that was filled out by the students, scale of discomfort in different parts of the body and postural assessment. Results: 68.8% are female, 30.3% started using their cell phones at the age of 13, and 51% use the internet for more than 5 hours. 6 students presented anteriorization of the head as a postural alteration. Conclusion: In the present study, postural changes were observed in academics, highlighting the anteriorization of the head as the main one. Even so, it is suggested to carry out studies with a larger sample, in order to better assess the existence of postural changes resulting from the excessive use of cell phones.