Postural attitudes of the lower extremity of the children at school during the lectures: Observational Study

Abstract

Introduction: The Human being and due to the developments, is developing skeletal muscle disorders of the lower limb directly associated with a bad attitude in postural sedestatión, children spend a large part of your life sitting in the classroom. Objectives: To evaluate the position taken at the lower extremity in seated posture of a group of schoolchildren during the period of attention to the teacher in the classroom; compare the different positions of children of different ages and gender. Materials and methods: direct and cross-sectional study of schoolchildren between 10 and 11 years belonging to a college in Early Childhood Education, Primary and Secondary Education in Madrid. The data was collected through observation sheet postural attitudes of spine, lower limb and foot at more sedestación to identify frequent according to gender. Results and Conclusions: There are differences in the way of sitting of children and girls, because girls are the attitudes presented with a higher proportion of lower limb rotational, while children took greater proportion of harmful attitudes in the foot. In conclusion we find it necessary to provide health education and hygiene for postural lower limb in schools and urge schools to have ergonomic furniture to minimize adverse effects on lower limb.