What is it about?
This paper aimed to present a study that analyzed the relation between musculoskeletal disorders and postural habits adopted by 5th and 9th school grade students, from both gender.
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Why is it important?
The best way to avoid poor postural habits, is to teach children good postural behaviors for performing their everyday life activities. Despite the existence of specific programs, intended for children’s self-body consciousness improvement, Physical Education curricula lack this type of exercises.
Perspectives
Major findings, allow us to raise the awareness for postural education programs introduction in Physical Education curricula, since they could influence children’s physical health.
Professor Gustavo Desouzart
Piaget Institute of Viseu
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This page is a summary of: Postural Education: Correlation Between Postural Habits and Musculoskeletal Pain in School Age Children, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41983-1_23.
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