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- Title
ASSOCIAÇÃO ENTRE FORÇA MUSCULAR E SENSIBILIDADE PLANTAR EM PACIENTES DIABÉTICOS: UM ESTUDO TRANSVERSAL.
- Authors
Veras, Tiago Camillo; de Moura Rocha, Lélio Russell; do Amaral, Caroline Pontes; Silva de Mendonca, Horianna Cristina; Gomes do Nascimento, Lívia Shirahige; Campos, Shirley Lima; Rodrigues de Araújo, Maria das Graças
- Abstract
Diabetes mellitus, a chronic carbohydrate metabolic disorder with high morbo-mortality rates, also includes peripheral diabetic neuropathy as a predominant complication. Current analysis verifies the association between foot sensitiveness and muscle force of the ankle in patients with diabetes. A transversal study involving 18 patients revealed that there is an association between foot sensitiveness and muscle force at the ankle in patients who were evaluated with regard to tactile sensitiveness with monofilaments (Semmes-Weistein) at three sites of the sole the foot and the muscular force of the ankle, with tests for hand strength, graduated from 0 to 5. Analysis SPSS 20.0, chi-square tests and Fisher's exact test (p<0.05) were performed. Further, 44.5% of patients suffered loss of tactile sensitiveness; 38.8% had loss of pain sensitiveness; 38.8% and 33.3% had a decrease in the lateral dorsal-flexor force even though the co-relationship of variables was not statistically significant. Loss of sole sensitiveness could not be associated with decrease in muscle force in patients with diabetes.
- Publication
Saúde e Pesquisa, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 3, p525
- ISSN
1983-1870
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17765/1983-1870.2015v8n3p525-532