Kontakt 2011, 13(3):356-366 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2011.041

Health and condition of the supporting-locomotor system in adolescentsBiomedicine - Original article

Mária Zanovitová^1,*, Igor Zanovit², Elena Bendíková³

¹ Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Jesseniova lekárska fakulta v Martine, Ústav ošetrovateľstva, SR

² Základná škola, Lichardova, Žilina, SR

³ Univerzita Mateja Bela, Fakulta humanitných vied, katedra telesnej výchovy a športu, Banská Bystrica, SR

The ever increasing occurrence of civilization diseases points out the need for the primary prevention and motivates healthcare professionals to the enhancement of their efforts focused on the maintenance and support of the population health. Insufficient locomotor activity is one of civilisation factors negatively affecting the health in young people.
The work presented here is aimed at problems of diseases of the supporting-locomotor system in adolescents in association with a lack of movement activities, activity reduced due to their health condition and changes in their style of life.
The target and scope of the research was the determination and consideration of the supporting-locomotor system in adolescents with a special regard to the movement activity in the style of life of adolescents. The correct posture and condition of the supporting-locomotor system were evaluated with the help of examination methods and diagnostic tests, in which the method of the posture evaluation by Jaroš and Lomíček was employed. In addition, to provide the complex nature of the measurement and evaluation of anthropometric data, we used a questionnaire supplementing information on movement activities and health condition of respondents.
In the evaluation of the general posture, our respondents achieved an average value of 11.38 expressing the percent proportion of the incorrect posture. In the general posture evaluation we found 59.3% of girls and 55.4 % of boys to exert incorrect posture. There was an only slight dependence between the BMI and posture evaluation, the relationship being more considerable in boys. Statistically significant differences in the posture were found between sporting and occasionally sporting to non-sporting persons, which applied to the same extent in groups of girls and boys. In the respondents, we also evaluated their movement activity and health condition, which considerably affect the supporting-locomotor system.
The results of the research show that in the contemporary population of young people, important causes of the development of the incorrect posture include a deficiency of movement activities. The occurrence of diseases of the supporting-locomotor system is ever increasing due to the lack of physical movements and movement inactivity, thus presenting a serious health problem.

Keywords: adolescent; posture; supporting-locomotor system; movement; movement activity

Received: March 11, 2011; Accepted: September 12, 2011; Published: September 29, 2011  Show citation