Programa de prevención sobre las alteraciones posturales dirigido a las amas de casa, que asisten al centro de referencia del cantón Pedro Carbo provincia del Guayas en el período comprendido de noviembre del 2019 a febrero del 2020.

Abstract

Postural disorders are considered as one of the most frequent causes produced by poor posture, hereditary alterations, excessive use of the limbs in activities that require effort, among others, since they also present anomalies produced on this basis. The objective of this paper is to identify the postural alterations that the housewives present between 40 and 70 years attending the center of reference, where the methodology of quantitative approach was used and the postural test could be used as an instrument, which allowed us to evaluate a total of 70 housewives where it was observed that 26% of housewives have hyperlordosis, 31% hyperkyosis and 43% scoliosis being one of the most prevalent alterations, In the same way we could perform the test of distance finger floor to observe the flexibility which 50% of the ladies have a distance of 6cm and 10cm. Due to the presence of these disorders, talks continued on postural alterations and postural hygiene of daily activities and then continued to carry out surveys on what was learned, where the most relevant results were: 71% correctly collect an object from the ground, while 11% keep the wrong posture, 84% distribute the bags in both hands when shopping, 86% keep their backs straight when sweeping and 81% maintain an upright posture to wash dishes in the same way exercises were performed to reduce pain and reduce functional limitations caused by acquired alterations.