Investigação da escoliose idiopática em crianças e adolescentes: revisão integrativa

Abstract

Idiopathic scoliosis is a three-dimensional spinal deformity of unknown etiology, progression is associated with the spurt of growth and development occurs during childhood and adolescence may be aggravated. This integrative review aimed to identify studies that investigated the idiopathic scoliosis in children and adolescents, published in the last five years and to describe the prevalence and most common physical therapy. The search for studies was performed in the period January-May 2013 the databases SciELO, LILACS and MEDLINE databases, analyzed by two people independently, crossing the titers obtained for verification of repetitions. Yielded six studies, four of which showed a prevalence and variability of 0.47% to 7%, with a higher incidence in females and two related to physical therapy with the use of iso-streching method studies, manual therapy, stretching, use orthosis and method for FITS this deformity. Through this study, we observed that the prevalence found in the selected articles was comparable with that reported in the literature, with higher incidence in females. Regarding physical therapy, both studies showed significant improvements after treatment proposed. However, there is a dearth of studies addressing physical therapy this deformity.