IMPACT OF DIABETIC NEUROPATHY ON QUALITY OF LIFE AND POSTURAL BALANCE IN BRAZILIAN OLDER ADULTS

Overview

Journal Acta Ortop Bras

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2020 Dec 17

PMID 33328782

Citations 6

Authors

Rita de Cassia Ernandes

Guilherme Carlos Brech

Natalia Mariana Silva Luna

Armando Bega

Danielle Serra GuimarAes

Danilo Sales Bocalini

Gerson Scherrer

Julia Maria DAndrea Greve

Luiz Eugenio Garcez Leme

Angelica Castilho Alonso

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Abstract

Objective: To analyze the impact of the Peripheral Diabetic Neuropathy (PDN) on the postural and functional balance and quality of life of Brazilian older adults.

Methods: A cross-sectional study. Sixty older men and women (60-79 years) were divided into three groups: control, DM without and with PDN. The following parameters were evaluated: anthropometry; quality of life; postural balance (BESTest); functional balance in force plate (NeuroCom Balance).

Results: PDN group presented significant differences compared with the other groups, with the worst performance in quality of life than DM2 without PDN in: sensory functioning ( = 0.030); past and future ( = 0.036); death and dying ( = 0.035). Postural balance deficit in the total score ( = 0.025) and biomedical constraints section ( = 0.043) of the BESTest, compared with DM2 without PDN ( = 0.007). In the functional balance (Neurocom), PDN group presented a worse performance in the time spent on the left side ( = 0.030) than the control group. During step up over test, the control group performed the task faster than the group with PDN ( = 0.004).

Conclusion: This study showed that neuropaths presented worse physical performance and postural balance deficits, sensorial limitations, affecting the daily tasks and, as a consequence, decreasing the quality of life in Brazilian older adults.

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