Efeitos da fisioterapia convencional e da wiiterapia em mulheres idosas com osteoartrite de joelho

• Autor(a) principal: Wibelinger, Lia Mara
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/2690
• topic: MEDICINA; GERIATRIA; GERONTOLOGIA; IDOSOS; ENVELHECIMENTO; FISIOTERAPIA; FORÇA MUSCULAR; OSTEOARTRITE; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA

Introduction : New epidemiological studies show an increase in elderly population in Brazil, which makes the likelihood of chronic degenerative osteoarticular diseases take root among this osteoarthritis is one of the most prevalent diseases in elderly, and affects more woman individuals, affecting considerably the knee joint. The technologies are identified as a new way to promote health activities, since the functional capacity and well-being are essential when thinking about aging with quality of life. Virtual reality uses multi-sensory channels and allows the user immersion, navigation and interaction in a three-dimensional synthetic environment generated by computer. Physical therapy intervention conventional, there is today a new ally in intervention programs, through wiiterapia. Wiiterapia is the name that is the new feature that combines physical therapy through the video game Nintendo Wii®, which can also be associated with WiiFit platform. This feature is part of this kind of reality, and that increasing the physiotherapy programs, bringing benefits in a playful and more participatory on the part of individuals. Objectives : This study evaluated the effects of conventional physiotherapy and wiiterapia in elderly women with knee osteoarthritis. Method : The research is a longitudinal study, interventionist and was held in Passo Fundo - RS. Were 71 elderly women aged more than sixty years, the study subjects, suffering from knee osteoarthritis, who were divided into two groups (GI = 33 and GII = 38), the group I underwent an intervention program based in physiotherapy and II with wiiterapia. Both greater 20 sessions of intervention three times a week, for approximately 3 months. Results : The elderly women who underwent conventional therapy (group I) showed a significant improvement in the field stiffness (14.39 ± 17.43) compared to wiiterapia (group II, 25.13 ± 15.99) in the post-intervention ( p = 0.00). No differences were observed between groups in the domains of pain, disability and balance in intervention post. When is compared with conventional physiotherapy, the wiiterapia we found no statistically significant results in muscle strength. Conclusion : The intervention program of physiotherapy was effective in improving the stiffness in elderly women with osteoarthritis, of the knee flexor muscles are weaker in the older group who performed physiotherapy, and the flexor muscles are weaker than the extensors in both study groups and the higher speed, lower peak torque in the extensor muscles. However, although the peak torque wiiterapia be higher in the group that underwent conventional physiotherapy had a higher percentage of increase in muscle strength in both flexors and extensors in post-intervention.