Oral / Poster Presentation File
1Head of the Personnel, Department of Physical Education and Health of Mashhad Municipality
2Advisor in Mashhad municipality health monitoring center
Methods: One hundred men with age of 45±5 years as older group and one hundred men with age of 24.45±3.88 years as younger group were evaluated by Standard New York Test. The subjects were randomly selected from Mashhad Municipality employees. According to this test, eleven vertebral deformities were examined in two lateral and posterior views and in three levels of normal, poor and very poor postures, as well as comparing the rate of incidence of each deformity between each group. The average age of the subjects and its standard deviation calculated by descriptive statistics and the analysis of differences between groups was calculated by Chie square statistical test.
Results: According to our findings, there were significant differences in all vertebral deformities between groups, although it was found no significant differences in dropped shoulder and pectus exavatum deformities. The results showed that 48.72% of older group and 33.26% of younger group, and 42.21% of all subjects whom incorporated in this research have postural deformities in vertebral column. The most incidence of deformities in older group was abdominal hump (77%) and in younger group was forward head (64%). The less one in older group was torticollis (23%) and in younger group was lateral pelvic tilt (6%).
Conclusion: The results showed that the aging process plays an important role in incidence of deformities, because the rate of most deformities was higher in older men compared to younger men, significantly.
