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Abstract
In de last few decades, positive advances are occurring in children’s
health conditions all over de world. The spread of health and hygiene measures are
contributing to an expressive fall in the incidence of infections illnesses. Despite of that,
urban life in modern societies has been associated to behavior changes, mostly
concerning diet and physical activities, topics related to obesity. Many factors can cause
postural alterations, such as postural vices, innate errors and the increase of regional
mechanical necessities, and these can be observed either in obese people or not, but it
frequently occurs because of obesity, which is a result of an exaggerated corporal mass
an the alteration on the distribution of this mass. This transversal study, which casuistry
of one hundred students, between 8 and 10 years old from both genres, was done in
public school of the central urban region in the city of Araraquara –SP. The goal of the
study was to characterize the excess of weight in childhood and its influences on these
children musculoesqueletic system. The calculation of the BMI (body mass index), the
brachial circumference, the relation waist –hip, the plantar analysis by podoscopia and
the analysis of photos processed using the principle of the biofotogametria, were used as
methodology. One hundred students were evaluated, 50 boys and girls. The studied
population presented high prevalence of overweight and obesity of 24% and 40% M for
the male sex and 8% and 28% F for the female sex, respectively. The anthropometrics
aspects, IMC and circumference or the arm, relate to the characterization of the weigh
excess, had presented positive statistic correlation in regression linear of (0,97%) female
and (0,98%) male in the use of these index. The kids had presented a significant
statistics association between: BMI and asymmetry in the previous plan, what suggests
scoliosis of (26, 7%) overweight (56, 7%) obesity, BMI and asymmetry in the posterior
plan, what suggests scoliosis, (20, 7%) overweight (51, 7%) obesity, BMI and
asymmetry in the posterior plan, triangle tales what suggests scoliosis (29, 2%)
overweight (37, 5%) obesity, BMI and asymmetry in lateral plan, what suggests lumbar
hiperlordose (18, 2%) overweight (51, 5%) obesity, BMI and asymmetry in lateral plan,
what suggests hipercifose thoracic (12, 5%) overweight (50, 0%) obesity,. The obese
students presented a higher number of plain feet than the other (88,2)obesity (100,0%)
overweight. Conclusion: The results demonstrate a high index of corporal mass with
some alterations such as, the prevalence of plain feet in overweight students, and an
alteration in the postural component resulting in asymmetries in the previous, posterior