Instrumento portátil para avaliação do controle postural em idosos

Abstract

In recent decades, technological advances have improved people's quality of life. The elderly population has been growing significantly, generating an increasing need for studies on the complexity involved in the aging phenomenon. The physiological deterioration of the elderly adult can lead to a reduction in the ability to balance, becoming an important issue among the elderly. A stable posture requires the coordination of multiple joints in the body. The way to manage this posture is through an assessment. With advancing age, human beings present behavioral changes in postural control, probably due to structural and functional changes that occur in the sensory and motor systems in this process. In this research, it is proposed to carry out the construction of an accessible prototype to carry out studies and analysis of the extrabiographical sign and reference frames of the posture of people in the elderly. The results of the proof-of-concept laboratory test show that the new device can be used in future clinical studies as an instrument to assess the posture of the elderly. On the use of this technology was analyzed and the comparison between the cost of this technology and the possible resource savings derived from the lower use of resources that the equipment can use, but not leaving aside the guarantee of an excellent execution for which it was built, the Stabilometry.