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Bagalkoti, Praveen. S.
- Study of Correlation between Hypermobility and Body Mass Index in Children aged 6-12 Years
Authors
1 Department of Physiotherapy, SDM College of Medical Sciences And Hospital, Dharwad, IN
2 Department of Pediatrics, SDM College of Medical Sciences And Hospital, Dharwad, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy-An International Journal, Vol 7, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 247-249Abstract
Objectives: Joint hypermobility indicates an increase in the range of joint movement among normal individuals. Joint hypermobility commonly occurs in school age children (8-39%). Weight gain may precipitate the onset of symptoms of hypermobility syndrome. This study was done to assess the correlation between hypermobility and body mass index in children aged 6-12 years.Design: Cross sectional study
Methods: Beighton score was used to evaluate 420 healthy children. One point was scored for each positive result (maximum: 9). Scores >4 were considered to be generalised hypermobility. Body mass index was calculated using height and weight of the children. Then, the data was evaluated statistically using SPSS 16.0 version statistical software and results were obtained.
Results: The result showed that 57.14% of hypermobile children were under weight, 35.93% of hypermobile children had normal weight, 19.15% of hypermobile children were at risk of being overweight where as 16.67% of hypermobile children were overweight. A negative correlation (-0.0008) between hyper mobility and BMI was found.
Conclusion: Hypermobility was more prevalent (57.14%) among under weight children aged 6-12 years.
Keywords
Hypermobility, Beighton Score, 6-12 Years Aged Children, Body Mass Index
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- Importance of Screening in 0-18 Months Infants by using INFANIB at Tertiary Hospital
Authors
1 Department of Physiotherapy, SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, IN
2 Department of Pediatrics, SDM College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Dharwad, IN
3 Pediatric Physiotherapist, Regional Neuroscience Centre, Hubli, Karnataka, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy-An International Journal, Vol 7, No 3 (2013), Pagination: 184-186Abstract
Objectives: Child development is a dynamic process and is often hard to measure by its very nature. The various streams of development, including gross motor, fine motor, language, cognitive, and adaptive behaviour, are interrelated and complex within themselves. Developmental delay refers to when a child's development lags behind established normal ranges for his or her age. The prevalence of developmental delay, deviation, disability or deformity in India is 2.5%. So the objective of this study was to screen the infants at Tertiary hospital and to categorize them as normal, transiently abnormal & abnormal neurologic development according to the INFANIB score.Design: Cross sectional study
Method: 639 subjects were included in this study. According to the INFANIB manual guidelines, screening test was administered and infants were categorized as normal, transiently abnormal and abnormal neurologic development. Then, the data was evaluated statistically and results were obtained.
Results: In Group 1(age of less than 4 months) as per INFANIB score out of 194 samples there were 161(82.99%) normal, 24(12.37%) transiently abnormal and 9(4.64%) abnormal neurologic development infants. Group 2 (age of 4-8 month) had 162(86.63%) normal, 12(6.42%) transiently abnormal and 13(6.95%) abnormal neurologic development infants out of 187 samples. In Group 3(age of 8 months or more) out of 258 samples there were 205(79.46%) normal, 18(6.98%) transiently abnormal and 35(13.57%) abnormal neurologic development infants. When all three age groups were considered, there were 528(82.63%) normal, 54(8.45%) transiently abnormal, 57(8.92%) abnormal neurologic development infants.
Conclusion: On INFANIB screening, there were 8.45% transiently abnormal and 8.92% abnormal neurologic development infants at the Tertiary hospital.
Keywords
Screening, INFANIB, 0-18 Month's ChildrenReferences
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