Aptidão física, avaliação postural e dor em integrantes da equipe de natação do Clube Recreativo Dores da cidade de Santa Maria - RS: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the physical fitness and to verify its possible relation with the body composition and the existence of pain in children and adolescents of 9 the 14 years old integrants of the team of swimming of the Clube Recreativo Dores. For in such a way, they had been submitted to the evaluation of the body composition, of flexibility and the body posture and they had also answered the questionnaire of topography and intensity of pain and an interview of sexual maturation. The data gotten through descriptive statistics, test “T” of Student, an analysis of frequency and percentage of the answers of the instruments had been analyzed: test of Bloomfild, questionnaire of topography and intensity of pain, interview of sexual maturation and postural evaluation and a posterior qualitative analysis of the gotten results. These results had demonstrated that it did not have statistical significant difference in the corporal composition between the daily pay and the after-test for both genders. It had increase of the daily pay for the after-test in the level of flexibility for the positions of horizontal abduction of the shoulders, flexion of the joint of the hip and flexion of the joints of the knees for the boys. Already the girls had presented more flexible in the positions of horizontal abduction of shoulders and abduction of shoulders. The found posturais shunting lines more had been hiperlordose lombar and escoliose for both genders and the intensity of pain in the majority of the cases was light. Moreover, one evidenced that the components of the physical aptitude, in this in case that corporal composition and flexibility, present relation with the corporal position and the existence of pain in this sample.