Postural Disorders Produced by School Furniture on a Population of a Junior High School.

In recent years people suffering of backache has significantly increased. This led us to focus our attention on the adequacy of school furniture for the correct development of the adult posture. The standing posture of 67 students of middle school has been analyzed at the beginning and at the end of two consecutive scholastic years using a stabilometric platform.

[State of the art: posture and occlusion].

The Authors of this work propose to give an evaluation about actual relationship between posture and occlusion, trying of to give some indications about posture's meaning, organizing the relation about five points: Posture's definition Posture's history Posture's models of study Occlusal support en posture Diagnostic procedures.