Aspectos motores, funcionais e emocionais de indivíduos com sintomas vestibulares

Abstract

Individuals with vestibular symptoms present unstable gait, imbalance and one way to measure an individual's level of imbalance is through baropodometry, widely used in clinical practice to map the area of plantar pressure through graphic records and determine displacements and oscillations. of the center of pressure through stabilometry. Furthermore, balance and anxiety are related, as they share the same central neural circuits. Thus, psychological complaints such as anxiety and depression are common in individuals with dizziness. Therefore, the present study aims to analyze the motor, functional and emotional characteristics of individuals with vestibular symptoms. The analysis of plantar pressure and center of pressure was carried out using baropodometry and stabilometry on a force platform (BaroScan®, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil) and the BaroSys software, while for functional analysis we used the TUG test and the aspect functional of the DHI questionnaire and for emotional analysis the emotional aspect of the DHI. We found that individuals with vestibular symptoms have flat feet, with higher values of maximum pressure, mean pressure, maximum pressure in the midfoot and rearfoot and mean pressure in the rearfoot when compared to people without vestibular symptoms. Furthermore, individuals with vestibular symptoms have reduced functional mobility and a greater risk of falling, in addition to having compromised emotional and mental health, with signs of anxiety and mild to moderate depressive symptoms in the majority of individuals when compared to individuals without vestibular symptoms.