• Lívia Pimenta Renó Gasparotto - Renó, LP - Universidade Federal de São Paulo - <livpi@hotmail.com>
Área Temática:
Saúde do Idoso
Resumo:
No presente artigo enumeram-se certas diferenças categoriais da percepção de si de idosos, cuja análise é importante para possíveis intervenções. Objetivo: analisar a relação entre a postura apresentada e autopercepção desta por idosos. Metodologia: participaram 18 idosos do projeto EPIDOSO II-UNIFESP submetidos à avaliação postural. As posturas foram fotografadas e as imagens entregues aos idosos, cujas opiniões foram analisadas por metodologia qualitativa. As falas foram transcritas e categorizadas pela técnica de codificação teórica axial e seletiva, na perspectiva do interacionismo simbólico. Resultados: Identificou-se uma atitude passiva do idoso em relação às alterações posturais. Há uma distorção da imagem corporal por aqueles que apresentam desvio de postura. Participantes que possuíam o alinhamento vertebral adequado mostraram-se mais conscientes sobre seu posicionamento corporal e a importância deste assimilada em fases anteriores à do envelhecimento. Conclusão: a aderência ao autocuidado postural parece ocorrer em fases anteriores à do envelhecimento, devendo ser realizado nestas épocas o trabalho efetivamente preventivo. A despreocupação com a questão postural relaciona-se com a concepção do idoso sobre a noção de envelhecimento que é, em si, o acúmulo de disfunções inevitavelmente simultâneas ou sucessivas.
Palavras-chave:
postura
envelhecimento
percepção
Abstract:
This article deals with the differences between body actual posture and awareness among old people suffering, or not, from postural alterations. To ascertain whether self-evaluation of posture by the elder coincides with real posture, as well as his elaborations on the subject include preventive measures to counter such possibly misleading perception. Method 18 cases among the aged population already participating in the “epidoso study” at UNIFESP. Initially, a postural evaluation was done. Postures were photographed, printed on paper and offered to participants. The ensuing spontaneous narratives were taped, and eventually used during the semi-structured interviewing process, thus helping to discuss individual awareness of postural problems. Results a passive attitude was identified in the Elder, due to alterations during the aging process, besides a warped body image, as perceived by those who show a postural deviation. Among those who did not present any postural alterations, both a sharper consciousness of column warping, and a more careful positional alignment, having begun earlier than the aging process, was detected. Conclusion postural awareness begins before the aging process settles in, therefore any preventive-corrective measures must be taken at this stage, and not afterwards, when aging has already settled down, postural issues being already definitively establishe
POSTURE SELF-EVALUATION BY ELDERS WHO DISPLAY OR NOT THORACIC KHYPOSIS
Resumo (abstract):
This article deals with the differences between body actual posture and awareness among old people suffering, or not, from postural alterations. To ascertain whether self-evaluation of posture by the elder coincides with real posture, as well as his elaborations on the subject include preventive measures to counter such possibly misleading perception. Method 18 cases among the aged population already participating in the “epidoso study” at UNIFESP. Initially, a postural evaluation was done. Postures were photographed, printed on paper and offered to participants. The ensuing spontaneous narratives were taped, and eventually used during the semi-structured interviewing process, thus helping to discuss individual awareness of postural problems. Results a passive attitude was identified in the Elder, due to alterations during the aging process, besides a warped body image, as perceived by those who show a postural deviation. Among those who did not present any postural alterations, both a sharper consciousness of column warping, and a more careful positional alignment, having begun earlier than the aging process, was detected. Conclusion postural awareness begins before the aging process settles in, therefore any preventive-corrective measures must be taken at this stage, and not afterwards, when aging has already settled down, postural issues being already definitively establishe
Renó, LP. AUTOAVALIAÇÃO DA POSTURA POR IDOSOS COM E SEM HIPERCIFOSE TORÁCICA.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2010/dez). [Citado em 21/12/2024].
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