Evaluation of Q angle in differents static postures.

Objective: To compare the value of Q angle in different positions, in the external and internal rotations of lower limbs.

Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. We have evaluated 62 volunteers, 32 women and 30 men in the following positions: supine positions with parallel feet, supine with abduction (external rotation of lower limbs), and standing position with parallel feet and with external rotation.

Effects of hearing aids in the balance, quality of life and fear to fall in elderly people with sensorineural hearing loss.

Introduction:  The aging process provokes structural modifications and functional to it greets, compromising the postural control and central processing. Studies have boarded the necessity to identify to the harmful factors of risk to aged the auditory health and security in stricken aged by auditory deficits and with alterations of balance.

Objective:  To evaluate the effect of auditory prosthesis in the quality of life, the balance and the fear of fall in aged with bilateral auditory loss.

Evaluation of the health-related quality of life in elderly patients according to the type of hip fracture: femoral neck or trochanteric.

Objective: To evaluate the effect the type of hip fracture (femoral neck or trochanteric) has on the Health-Related Quality of Life of elderly subjects.

Methods: Forty-five patients with hip fractures (mean 74.30 +/- 7.

Postural alterations in children with mouth breathing assessed by computerized biophotogrammetry.

Objectives: To determine and compare the posture of children with obstructive (OMB) and functional mouth breathing (FMB) and children with nasal breathing (NB) using computerized biophotogrammetry, as well as to determine the viability and efficacy of this method.

Methods: Evaluative and personalized methods were used for the capture and analysis of angle images obtained from 19 NB, 26 FMB and 17 OMB children of either gender aged 8 to 10 years on anterior, posterior and profile views. The nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test was applied to analyze the three groups as a whole and the Mann-Whitney test was used for pairwise comparison of the groups (p = 0.