Assessment of the body posture of children in the school age

Habik-Tatarowska Natalia. Assessment of the body posture of children in the school age. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(7):41-48. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3265468 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7090 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 20.06.2019. Revised: 25.06.2019. Accepted: 02.07.2019. Assessment of the body posture of children in the school age Natalia Habik-Tatarowska1 1. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland Corresponding author: habiknatalia@gmail.com Abstract Nowadays, posture defects are a quite significant medical, economic and social problem. They mainly start when the children start school. It is extremely important to diagnose abnormalities in body posture as soon as possible to implement preventive and curative treatment. The main goal of the study was to assess the posture of children in school age. The research involved a group of 40 children from primary schools in the świętokrzyskie voivodeship. The attitude was assessed using the optoelectronic Diers Formetric III 4D method. It is a photogrammetric video recording via a raster stereography process. The research was carried out in May 2016. The respondents were in the age range 6-13. In 75% of the subjects, the lateral curvature of the spine was observed and in 25% the scoliotic posture was observed. Due to the location of the curvature, the most of them because up to 50% covered the thoracic segment of the spine. Due to the direction, right-sided curves dominated, giving 90%, and due to the number of bends of the curve, the highest number of scoliosis was 80%. In the sagittal plane, the flat back dominated among children, the number of which was 45%. There was no relationship between age and the angle of scoliosis. Studies have shown that the dominant defect in the sagittal plane turned out to be lateral curvature of the spine. The scoliotic attitude mainly concerned boys aged 11 and 12. An important problem turned out to be quite flat backs. Key words. body posture, scoliosis, posture defects, childre