Valoración de la postura en los niños/as de la Escuela Juan de Dios Corral y programa de intervención educativa, Cuenca mayo-noviembre 2010

Abstract

This type of research; Participatory Action Intervention had as its main objective to evaluate the posture of children from “Juan de Dios Corral” School and make an educational intervention program during the school year 2009-2010. 295 children were evaluated by a postural analysis in a frontal plane in vision: anterior, posterior and lateral; and in a sagital plane: right and left statically with the Postural Table. After performing the postural analysis some postural alterations were identified and treated. Consecutively to this phase we contributed to the development of knowledge, attitudes and healthy behaviors through Health Promotion making the school a healthy space and therefore a promoter of processes which include family and community. The data analysis was performed to obtain the prevalence of the main body alterations and measure the level of knowledge about postural Health. The analysis of the information was realized to obtain the percent of the principal postural alterations; which were, handled fisio and kinesio therapeutic, at par developed together with teachers and family parents workshops educomunicacionales on: postural hygiene, physical activity, healthy supply and personal hygiene, previous application of the pre CAPs; and, finally to measure the obtained results there were applied the post CAPs. The results show that 81% of individuals have postural abnormalities, such as: dropped shoulder, kyphotic and scoliotic attitude, lordosis and flatfoot. This fact justifies the need for a postural education and correction of the vicious postures acquired during this stage of life.