Avaliação postural, dor e aptidão física de praticantes de hidroginástica da Associação Desportiva da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Abstract

This article analysis the effects about subjective perception of pain, its influence in daily activities, posture and physical aptitude of practitioners of Associação Desportiva da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, after a period of 24 of hydro gymnastic classes. Twenty women, from 30 to 50 years old, water aerobics practicing of the Sporting Association of the Federal University of Santa Maria went by an initial evaluation for to measure the flexibility (to Sit down and to Reach), located muscular resistance (Abdominal 1 minute). Anthpometric measurements, as corporal mass, stature, circumference of the waist and of the hip, to esteem the Index of Corporal Mass (IMC) and the Relationship Waist Hip (RWH) were made too. Also, women answered two questionnaires to evaluate the pain, Questionnaire McGill of Pain and Inventory of Pain of Wisconsin and they went by an evaluation postural. After 24 classes of pretest, tests of the beginning of the study were repeated. There were differentiates significant statistically in the circumference of the waist and in the Relationship waist-hip, there was decrease of the subjective sensation of the pain in the face and left foot and the pains started to interfere less in the accomplishment of general activities, in the humor and in the sleep. In the posture, there were not modifications between the beginning and the end of the study. The results indicate that, after 24 classes of hydro gymnastic, the women improved in some items of the physical aptitude and decreased in subjective sensation of pain, however, no change in the posture of women who practice this modality.