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Volume 4
Journal of Pediatric Care
ISSN: 2471-805X
Page 70
JOINT EVENT
August 06-07, 2018 Madrid, Spain
&
2
nd
Edition of International Conference on
Adolescent Health & Medicine
18
th
International Conference on
Pediatrics Health
Pediatrics Health 2018
&
Adolescent Health 2018
August 06-07, 2018
Assessment of symmetrigraph and global postural system results for the posture analysis of the healthy
individuals
Doruk Turhan
Altinbas University, Turkey
Background & Aim:
Posture disorder is commonly seen in society. There are some differences among the reasons of them,
these are ergonomic deficiency of office work environment, habits, cultural and sexual differences. The primer target of our
work is to determine the similarities or differences of the methods by analyzing the results of two of posture analysis methods
used for the healthy individuals.
Materials &Methodology:
In this study, the posture analysis has been made with Global Postural System and Symmetrigraph
for 100 healthy individuals, 18-23 year-old, between the dates of March 2015- April 2015. Posterior and lateral posture analysis
has been made for the individuals standing in front of the Symmetrigraph and Bragg posture table has been used for this
analysis. Assessment of the posture has been made over triple scale. With the Global Postural System thoracic kyphosis and
lumbar lordosis angles and measurements of sagittal plane head alignment have been calculated.
Results:
Statistical analysis shows; in between symmetrigraph results of thoracic kyphosis and ages of the participants, there
are not any meaningful differences (p>0.05). As a result of the statistical analysis, the lumbar lordosis symmetrigraph results,
there are meaningful changes with the aging of the individuals (p<0.05). Moreover, there are not any meaningful changes with
the aging of the individuals on the head position in the sagittal plan in symmetrigraph method (p>0.05). Only position of
head in sagittal plan, results of both methods are compatible with each other. On the individuals 20 years and older, results are
higher on symmetrigraph than Global Postural System for all perimeters.
Conclusions:
In our study we have determined that the angle for thoracic kyphosis for the male individuals are lower than
female individuals; female individuals have lumbar lordosis angle lower then male individuals while head position in sagittal
plan has lower angle on the male individuals. When the results obtained from the studies are taken into consideration, it
can be said that the results obtained from both methods do not show parallels in general. Consequently, we think that both
methods can be used for the posture analysis, but the number and quality of the detailed studies related to this subject should
be increased.
dorukturhan@gmail.comJ Pediatr Care 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2471-805X-C3-012