Caracterização da capacidade física em idosas ativas

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Laís Alli [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Camargo, Regina Celi Trindade [UNESP], Silva, Elaine Aparecida Lozano da [UNESP], Turato, Vinicius Gustavo Gimenes [UNESP], Silva, Giovana Renata Parizi [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://200.145.6.205/index.php/congressoextensao/8congressoextensao/paper/view/1704; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/142308
• topic: Aging; Physical activity; Physical capacity; Envelhececimento; Atividade física; Capacidade física

INTRODUCTION: Aging brings changes in physical endurance and strength, coordination, flexibility, agility, balance which results in decreased ederlyindependence. The physical activity becomes important for promoting better life quality and minimizing changes. OBJECTIVE: Assess physical capacity in active elderly women. METHODS: Anthropometric assessment was carried out and test application Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB). RESULTS: The study was composed of 42 elderly women with a mean age of 75.80 ± 5.94 years for G1 and 68.95 ± 7.45 years for G2.We had BMI above the normal range, 26.22 ± 4.11 kg / m2 (overweight) for G1 and 30.85 ± 4.35 kg / m2 (obese type I) to G2.We had founded that over time, speed and muscle strength of the lower limbs, the G1 group had long compared with G2. CONCLUSION: The participants in the physical therapy program have no disability or functional performance rated very bad. And, elderly belonging to the physical therapy program carried out three times a week performed better in SPPB, both in speed and in the lower limbs force.