Submitted by Kelson Anthony de Menezes (kelson@ucb.br) on 2016-12-09T12:34:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 BrunoSousaLopesDissertacao2016.pdf: 1490683 bytes, checksum: cbd7216d2a8f079ccc68a7ccb4a2cb77 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-09T12:34:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BrunoSousaLopesDissertacao2016.pdf: 1490683 bytes, checksum: cbd7216d2a8f079ccc68a7ccb4a2cb77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / The objective was to evaluate the influence of the angle of thoracic kyphosis in pressure center displacement in elderly while conducting a functional activity. The aged of Centro de Conviv??ncia do Idoso were selected for carrying out measurement of thoracic kyphosis angle from Flexicurve method. The postures of 153 elderly women were evaluated, using at least 25 with kyphosis and 25 with normal standard curve for the study follow-up. Following, physical therapy evaluation was performed to identify the elderly ineligible for the study, then the balance tests were conducted static and with functional reach test (FRT) associate with baropodometry platform. Also, elasticity tests were performed with Well???s bank. The Mann-Whitney test was used to establish the comparison of variables: age; anthropometric data; FRT; Well???s bank; and data obtained by the F-Scan. Also Pearson correlation was performed to correlate the degree of thoracic kyphosis with the results of FRT; and to establish the correlation between the thoracic kyphosis and the data obtained with the F-Scan. And also for correlate the result of the FRT with Fscan data. Statistically significant differences between the variables in comparison tests were not observed; for correlation tests, we found significant correlation only between FRT and the pressure center shifts in the anteroposterior direction of the dynamic tests. The study concluded that the achievement of TAF was not influenced by increased thoracic kyphosis angle. / O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar a influ??ncia do ??ngulo da cifose dorsal no deslocamento do centro de press??o em idosas durante a realiza????o de uma atividade funcional. Idosas do Centro de Conviv??ncia do Idoso foram selecionadas para realiza????o de aferi????o do ??ngulo de cifose tor??cica a partir do m??todo Flexicurva. Foram avaliadas as posturas de 153 idosas, utilizando-se pelo menos 25 com hipercifose e 25 com padr??o normal de curvatura para o seguimento do estudo. Na sequencia foi realizada avalia????o fisioterap??utica para identificar as idosas ineleg??veis para o estudo, ent??o, foram realizados testes de equil??brio est??tico e teste de alcance funcional (TAF) com a plataforma de baropodometria. Tamb??m foram realizados testes de elasticidade com o Banco de Well???s. Foi utilizado o teste de Mann-withney para estabelecer a compara????o das vari??veis: idade; dados antropom??tricos; TAF; banco de Well???s; e dados obtidos pelo F-Scan. Tamb??m foi realizada correla????o de Pearson para correlacionar os graus de cifose dorsal com os resultados do TAF; bem como para estabelecer a correla????o entre a cifose tor??cica e os dados obtidos com o F-Scan. E tamb??m para correlacionar o resultado do TAF com dados do F-Scan. Nos testes de compara????o n??o foram observadas diferen??as estatisticamente significantes entre nenhuma das vari??veis; para os testes de correla????o, foi encontrada correla????o significante apenas entre o TAF e os deslocamentos do centro de press??o no sentido anteroposterior dos testes din??micos. O trabalho concluiu que o desempenho do TAF n??o foi influenciada pelo aumento do ??ngulo de cifose dorsal.