1. EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONAL PHYSICAL HEALTH STATUS AHEAD OF THE HIGH ENDURANCE EXCERCISES
ID 22945
Liana Plavina¹, Silva Smagare¹, Andris Čakstiņš ¹, Anete Zahare²
¹Department of Morphology,
Institute of Anatomy and Anthropology,
Riga Stradins University, Latvia
²National Armed Forces, Latvia
Musculoskeletal disorders among military personnel are the most common problem. Musculoskeletal disorders manifest with pain symptom and functional dysfunctions that have influence on daily duty activities and physical working capacity. The physical load, psychological and emotional stress factors play significant role in military service environment as health hazards. Impact of high-intensity exercise may favour the development of psychosomatic pathology. Analysis of posture status and foot status, evaluation of functional tests results and anthropometric parameters allow to fixed problems and provided preventive measures for high physical endurance exercises and psychological load to reduce health disorder
According standardized Nordic Questionnaire for analysis musculoskeletal symptoms cadets indicated main problematic regions which are: the lower back, upper back , then the neck region, knee region and the foot region. Musculoskeletal symptoms (pain) were connected to physical load for 41.7% of male and 21.3% of female in study group. Posture analysis in examined group revealed that 74.3 % of cadets-males and 66.6% of cadets -female have asymmetric posture in sagittal plane. 80.8% of male and 58.3% of female have asymmetry in frontal plane. We have fixed combined asymmetric posture in sagittal and frontal plane for 67.8% participants (70.2 % cadets-males and 58.3% of cadets –female). In 77% of cases cadets with lower limb hyper tone had asymmetric posture in frontal plane, but data between both groups are not statistically significant (P>0,05). Foot status evaluation revealed foot asymmetry and weight distribution problems for 50% of females and 23.4% of males. Evaluation of the balance status showed that 82% of cadets with asymmetric posture in frontal plane had a balance disorder.
The purpose of the study is evaluation of functional physical health status for cadets- participants of Combat training course.
The study group includes cadets of both genders (included 47 males and 12 females) in aged years(Fig.1). We evaluated, functional tests results(Ffg.2), posture status (Fig.3) and foot status, data of Nordic Questionnaire for analysis musculoskeletal symptoms (Kuorinka et al.,1986) Fig.4, anthropometric parameters(Fig.5).
Fig.3. Evaluation data of posture status of Combat training course participants (%)
Fig.1. Combat Training course participants distribution according age (%)
Fig.4. Evaluation data of musculoskeletal symptoms of Combat training course participants (%)
Fig.2. Evaluation data of annual sports tests results of Combat training course participants (%)
Fig.5. Evaluation BMI data of Combat training course participants (%)
Advanced health status assessment, evaluation of posture and foot status as well functional tests results were topical to reduce the health risk for musculoskeletal disorders related to high physical load in military field environment. Persons with expressed posture asymmetry and foot during dynamic load and static load need special attention and medical preventive measure to prevent musculoskeletal overstress.