Pain, anxiety, and depression are symptoms that need attention in physiotherapeutic practice, once they influence the functionality of patients, so understanding them becomes an important tool. The aim of the study was to verify the levels of pain, depression, and anxiety in patients attended at a physiotherapy center. A cross-sectional clinical study in which a sociodemographic questionnaire was applied, the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire (MRQ). Seven patients participated and presented a MRI score of 18.57 ± 2.63 points, HADS in the topic anxiety 12.71 ± 5.43 points, HADS depression 9.57 ± 5.22 points and the resting VAS presented an average of 4 , 42 ± 3.9 pain points and in motion showed 8.71 ± 0.95. It is concluded that the population with low back pain has high intensity of pain, probable anxiety and possible level of depression.
The incidence of falls is high in elderly and the fear of falls is between the universal occurences of falls in this population. In this sense, the study has by objective evaluate the balance and the fear of falls in elderly woman participants of physical activity and sedentaries. Were evaluated 30 ederly of feminine sex divided into two groups: therapeutic exercise and sedentarism. All groups were evaluated using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Falls Efficacy Scale (FES-I-Brasil) and Tinetti Balance Scale. The results showed significative difference on fear of falls (20.09±3.7 vs 37.72±8.7; p=0.000), balance and march (27.77±0.5 vs 18.40±3.9; p<0.000) in favor to active elderly woman. For the variables age (68.04±5.3 vs 72.54±8.4; p=0.04) and cognition (28.31±1.5 vs 24.45±1.8; p=0.44), significative diferences were not observed. At this form, we conclude that physically active elderly woman presented less preocupation with the possibility of falls and better balance levels.
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