Aplicação da Escala de Equilíbrio de Berg para verificação do equilíbrio de idosos em diferentes fases do envelhecimento

Abstract

{SUMMARY}Currently, it is known one of the mainly factors that restricts old people’s life is the unbalance. Maybe the advantage of complaints about unbalance in old people who have more than 65 years old is almost 85%. There isn’t literature agreement about what the age that old people start losing their balance. The objective of this study is to evaluate the functional balance scale, to observe independent elderly with no pathology that can interfere in their balance, what the age and the task in the Berg scale is, where there is more unbalance. In this sample was included 55 elderly. They were put in 2 groups, in the first one with 30 elderly among .65-79 years old and the second one 25 elderly among 80-94 years old to analyze the Berg date it was put in 5 groups (transfers, stationing proves, functional reach, rotating components and low sustention base). In this sample, the elderly who were more than 80 years old demonstrated more unbalance than the other ones, their total points in the Berg scale indicated fall risk limit. On the other hand the other groups and the Berg tasks that showed more unbalance were respectively: the low sustention base and the 14 task. It’s believed that the prevention is important in this age and more studies are suggested to check if physiotherapy and physical exercises to balance can approve enough the total punctuation in the Berg scale in the age to run away of the limit of the fall risk.