Is there any relationship between decrease in bone mineral density in women, and deterioration in quality of life?
Journal Title: Rehabilitacja Medyczna - Year 2005, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Osteoporosis is a chronic metabolic bone disease leading to progressive destruction of bone microarchitecture and loss of function. Osteoporosis as a chronic disease can contribute to psychosocial disorders like changes in quality of life. The aim of our study was to assess if quality of life, especially such factors like pain, emotional status, physical fitness, are related to functional state of the spine of evaluated patients?Methods:189 female subjects aged 50 to 80 years were evaluated in this study. All were evaluated for: bone mineral density (BMD), the thoracic kyphosis, range of spinal thoracic motion in sagittal plane, strength of the back extensors and the physical activity level. Quality of life was assessed by SF–36 questionnaire.Results: Physically active subjects assessed their quality of life significantly better in all evaluated categories than sedentary subjects (p<0.01). When the cohort was divided according to their back extensor strength value there were significant differences in 5 from among 8 categories of quality of life (p<0.001), where stronger subjects assessed their quality of life better than sedentary. Subjects with a greater range of sagittal spinal motion assessed better their quality of life in 2 categories (p<0.001). There were no significant differences in quality of life both when the cohort were divided according to their BMD (p>0.05) and to thoracic kyphosis (p>0.05).Conclusion: The decrease in quality of life is influenced by pain, restriction in spinal range of motion, and decrease in back muscle strength. It was also observed that sedentary subjects assessed their quality of life worse in comparison to people who were physically active.
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Anna Mika
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