Valoración de la postura en las alumnas de quinto a septimo año de educación básica de la Escuela Fiscal Alfonso Cordero Palacios; y programa de intervención educativa. Cuenca 2011.

Abstract

This type of study conducted Participatory Action Research, aimed to promote health and correct posture in the students of fifth to seventh year Basic Education School Fiscal” Alfonso Cordero Palacios" in the city of Cuenca for the period January - July 2011, was done by girls postural assessment to determine the presence of postural abnormalities, provide adequate treatment and contribute to the development of knowledge, attitudes and health practices through health promotion, thus making the school in a healthy space and therefore manages the processes that include family and community.

This study shows a way to apply the analysis of the position through postural assessment test, the application of this tool allows the practitioner to practitioner, provide objective and quantitative. Individual risks require a particularized assessment, singling out the student's functional status, relating to their specific tasks, conditions of their place of study, useful for everyday use and other activities of daily life.

For the prevention of postural alterations must seek new tools that allow us to have a better grasp of the disorders and muscle-skeletal imbalances girls, through adequate treatment through physical therapy and physical therapy, plus the promotion of knowledge, attitudes and healthy practices, which are fundamental objectives of this research.

After the respective analysis of our study, we detected the presence of several position changes among which are: hyperlordosis, swollen abdomen, pelvic anteversion and scoliotic attitude.