Análise da prevalência de osteoartrite de joelho em idosos com excesso de peso

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Many are the factors that contribute to the Osteoarthritis’s progression in a patient. The cartilage degradation is one among these factors that result on the impossibility of full regeneration of the cartilage, what forces the OA patients to induce symptoms as articular rigidity, pain and crepitation, along with obesity and ageing, these are some aspects of overweight development. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the Osteoarthritis in elderly people’s knees. METHODOLOGY: The study was carried out at UNICESUMAR’s Cross-Curricular Laboratory of Intervention and Health Promotion, including elderly over 60 years old with their own consent. Those with incomplete data during the evaluation, that did not answer the survey and those who had already been submitted to Arthroplastic surgery have not been considered in this study. For our purposes, the WOMAC questionnaire (Western Ontario and Macmaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index) was an important tool for research. RESULTS: From the initially subscribed 86 patients the survey were carried out with 47, being 35 female, and 12 male patients. Each one of them was individually evaluated, following WOMAC, under the three domains of analysis: Pain, Articular rigidity and Functionality. Most of the patients did not present either pain or rigidity, as for functionality, little were the limitations in daily activities. CONCLUSION: Age and overweight are both acceleration factors for the osteoarthritis progression in the knees, and in this study, the WOMAC questionnaire scored low due to patients previous participation at the intervention project.