Musculoskeletal injuries in sedentary adult women entering a physical exercise program

Abstract

Introduction: musculoskeletal injuries are extremely common problem in Mexico, but there are no statistics on the epidemiology data are in agreement with the National Health System of the prevalence of fractures that were the cause of about 85 964 hospitalizations men and women of 52 042, while dislocations and sprains, its prevalence in males was 7 486 and 3 878 women representing about 2% of the total. These injuries are bruises, fractures, sprains, dislocations and muscle injury (domat), its incidence is between 10% and 55% of all these lesiones3. 

Objective: To identify the incidence and describe the predisposing factors of musculoskeletal injuries in sedentary adult women with risk factors for osteoporosis and initiate an exercise program to improve bone mineral density.

Methods: Prospective, longitudinal, descriptive, consisting of N = 99 sedentary women 45 to 60 years old with risk factors for osteoporosis, which joined the project “Effectiveness of a physical training program to improve bone mineral density”. For statistical treatment were measured central tendency, dispersion and correlation. 

Results: 26% of women had lesions induced by exercise, such as patellar bursitis, sprain, grade 1 and 2, crack of tibia, periostitis and delayed onset muscle soreness or Domat. Although the physical characteristics prevalent in these women were not favorable compared with the expected parameters for age, sex and physical activity can not say that these have been the predisposing factors for injury, because their correlation was not statistically significant .

Discussion: We found the frequency of injuries reported in this population to engage in an exercise program, therefore we have no benchmark to compare the incidence. 

Conclusions: Although exercise was organized and controlled and was given comprehensive care with emphasis on prevention, musculoskeletal lesions.