Spine: posture, mobility and pain. A longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence

Widhe, Torulf

doi:10.1007/s005860000230

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“…in general more sports activity will result in less LBP. This is in agreement with previous research [7,10,16,17,23,33]. In a recent Danish study, no association was found between directly observed physical activity and LBP [41].…”

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“…depression and somatization [19,20]. There are no clear associations with biological parameters such as body length [17,[21][22][23]; weight [22][23][24]; Body Mass Index [5,14,22,25]; length of the trunk [21,[23][24][25]; vertebral column mobility [5,10,23,26,27] and radiological changes of the vertebral column [12,22,[28][29][30][31][32]. Also the findings concerning the association between LBP and general muscle strength [22,27,33,34] and more specifically, hip flexor muscle flexibility [17,26,35] have been ambiguous.…”

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“…This hypothesis is attractive from the point of view of prevention, as physical activity is amenable to behavioral intervention, and physical training programs at school and leisure activities may be adjusted to aim at strengthening the back. Moreover, physical inactivity and intensive sports activity have been found to be associated with LBP in some [1,5,22,[34][35][36], but not all studies [7,10,16,17,23,33]. So far, research on possible associations with specific types of sport is however sparse [13,37].…”

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Physical activity and low-back pain in schoolchildren

Skoffer

Foldspang²

2008

Eur Spine J

112

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Design of the experiment is to study the crosssectional sample with retrospective information. The objective is to identify the types of physical activity associated with the decreased occurrence of low-back pain (LBP) in schoolchildren. Physical activity may be hypothesized to possess a potential for LBP prevention. The possible connection between LBP and specific sports activities is however sparsely documented. A total of 546, 15-to 16-year-old schoolchildren filled a questionnaire on current physical activities and LBP occurrence and severity. In multiple logistic regressions, the association of LBP with exposure variables was corrected for body height and weight (data from school health service files) and for anthropometric and school furniture parameters. More than half of the children reported pain or discomfort in the low-back region during the preceding 3 months, and 1/4 experienced a decreased functioning or need of care because of LBP. LBP correlated with physical inactivity, e.g. time spent on homework and hours watching TV or video, and with a series of sports activities, e.g. jogging, handball playing and gymnastics. Among sports activities, only swimming and the number of hours per week participating in soccer were associated with a decreased LBP prevalence. With the exception of swimming and soccer, the types of sport reported by this schoolchild population do not offer themselves for consideration as tools for LBP prevention. Based on the associations found with indicators of physical inactivity, attempts to motivate the children to increase their general physical activity level should be considered for trial.

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Physical activity and low-back pain in schoolchildren

Skoffer

Foldspang²

2008

Eur Spine J

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“…Men were more kyphotic at all examinations, in accordance with previous studies during the ascending phase of pubertal growth [9,11]. Such a difference was not observed in mean lumbar lordosis, which was rather constant and approximately 35 degrees both at puberty and in young adulthood, 22 years.…”

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Development of spinal posture in a cohort of children from the age of 11 to 22 years

Poussa

Heliövaara

Seitsamo³

et al. 2005

Eur Spine J

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“…Lumbar lordosis displays a broad range of normal values depending on the anthropometric traits of the measured individual. The curve increases with age [1,10,19,20,24,27,41,44,46,48], body mass [21,22,38,39,45] and physical activity [3,21,48]. Women have increased lordosis in comparison to men [1, 10, 11, 18, 20-22, 28, 39, 41, 47].…”

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Lumbar lordosis in osteoporosis and in osteoarthritis

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The curvature of the lumbar spine and the risk of developing either osteoporosis (OP) or osteoarthritis (OA) are influenced by many common factors. The aim of this study is to determine whether lumbar lordosis is different between patients with either disease and healthy persons. A crosssectional, blinded, controlled design was implemented. One hundred and twelve postmenopausal women were evaluated for bone mineral density as well as undergoing spinal radiography. Lordosis measurement was performed with Cobb's method. The sample was divided in four groups: patients with OP (n = 34, L1-L5 = 40.7°, L1-S1 = 54.1°), patients with OA (n = 29, L1-L5 = 38°, L1-S1 = 52.3°), patients with both diseases (n = 20, L1-L5 = 41.8°, L1-S1 = 52.3°) and controls (n = 29, L1-L5 = 38.6°, L1-S1 = 51.8°). For all participants age, height, weight, body mass index, physical activity level and basal metabolic rate were measured and recorded. The results revealed that although the four groups have significant constitutional differences, lumbar lordosis was comparable between them. The reasons for the lack of association are discussed.

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Spine: posture, mobility and pain. A longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence

Cited by 131 publications

References 21 publications

Physical activity and low-back pain in schoolchildren

Physical activity and low-back pain in schoolchildren

Development of spinal posture in a cohort of children from the age of 11 to 22 years

Lumbar lordosis in osteoporosis and in osteoarthritis

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