Eficácia do treinamento físico virtual na dor lombar crônica inespecífica, equilíbrio corporal, autonomia funcional e humor de idosas: experimento controlado, randomizado e duplo cego

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro Júnior, Renato Sobral
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/8272
• topic: Physical exercise; Ageing; Low back pain; Postural balance; Virtual reality; Dor lombar; Postura humana; Promoção da saúde; Envelhecimento Aspectos da saúde; Idosos Saúde e higiene; Exercício físico; Envelhecimento; Lombalgia; Equilíbrio postural; Realidade virtual; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICA

Currently new exercise methods have been studied in the field of health promotion, prevention and treatment of diseases. An innovative strategy and significant acceptance in scientific circles is the use of virtual reality technology in therapeutic sessions for people with neurological disorders and preventive training against falls in the elderly, with promising results, encouraging new designs of studies in this area, but with individuals different clinical characteristics. The purpose of this dissertation is to address the virtual reality technology, as well as their devices, the assessment of body balance and training of older people. Reliability article measure is an innovative approach to quantitative measurement of body stability, which is evaluated by an instrument inexpensive and validated against the gold standard. In this article it is concluded that the tested instrument has reliability. The randomized controlled double-blind experiment is presented in the original paper format, containing a summary, introduction, completed by the purpose of the study, which clarifies what will be studied; then follows the part of materials and methods that describes the sample, interventions, assessments of participants' responses and data analysis, showing how the study was conducted; followed by results, discussion, conclusion and references. In this experiment it was concluded that training with virtual reality was able to improve the functional autonomy of elderly to sit.