Physiotherapeutic approach in early and late post-menopausal Brazilian women. (July 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Calio, Caroline L.; Sorpreso, Isabel Cristina Esposito; Haidar, Mauro Abi; Maciel, Gustavo Arantes Rosa; Baracat, Edmund C.; Soares, José Maria
• Is Part Of: Gynecological endocrinology. Volume 29:Number 7(2013:Jul.)
• Page Start: 670
• Page End: 673
• Publication Date: 2013-07
• Subjects: Endocrine gynecology -- Periodicals; Generative organs, Female -- Diseases -- Periodicals; 618.1
• DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2013.788627
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-3590

Abstract

<abstract> <title>Abstract</title> <p>To evaluate changes in joints after physiotherapy in post-menopausal women, specifically to identify clinical responses to the measurements of flexibility, functional capacity and joint pain in early and late post-menopausal women at a multi-disciplinary health education programme. A total of 69 women participated in the Integral Program for the Attention to Climacteric Women at the Department of Gynecology – Federal University of Sao Paulo and were sorted into two groups of early (<italic>n</italic> = 32) and late (<italic>n</italic> = 37) post-menopause. The average age of menopause was 47.9 ± 5.6 years. The Blatt Kupperman Menopausal Index scores for the early (baseline = 12.8 ± 6.1) and late (baseline = 14.1 ± 7.7) post-menopausal groups after the programme were 8.4 ± 7.1 and 9.4 ± 8.1, respectively. Both groups presented improvements regarding functional capacity (<italic>p</italic> < 0.01) and complaints of pain (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001) after the intervention. The group of early post-menopausal women had better flexibility for hip flexion (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001), and the late post-menopausal group showed greater improvement in shoulder flexion (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001), extension (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001) and elbow flexion (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001). After multi-disciplinary approach, both early and late post-menopausal groups experienced decrease in intensity of climacteric symptoms, reduction in pain intensity and improvement in functional capacity, but the flexibility was different between both the groups.</p> </abstract>