Avaliação Do Equilíbrio De Mulheres Com Câncer De Mama

Abstract

The objective of this study was to verify the balance of women with breast cancer. This cross-sectional study, tested balance of 15women, eight women with cancer and seven without cancer. The evaluation was performed through the Mini Balance Evaluation Systems (MiniBESTest), TUG with simple and dual-task. The mean of age was 59.2 ± 5 years for cancer group and 60.2 ± 5 years for thecontrol group. Student's t-test for independent samples showed that there was no statistical differencebetween the groups for: MiniBESTest score, TUG with simple and dual-task. Women with cancer did not present balance impairments compared to control group according to MiniBESTest, and TUG with simple and dual-task.