“Prevalencia del valgo de rodilla en los estudiantes de la carrera de terapia física de la universidad técnica de ambato”

Abstract

The knee valgus is a pathological circumstance that affects the correct alignment of the knees making them in this way that they take a form of (X), this pathological circumstance can occur in children, adults and elderly of different ages and sexes occurring in several ways at first without any pain but over time can cause big problems if this condition is not treated on time. Among the most likely causes for there be a deformity in our knees, we have that obesity is a great factor for it can produce a bad alignment of the lower limbs, another factor that may be essential is when there is a flat foot causing the distal part of the femur together with the proximal parts of the tibia, fibula, and the entire patella to be directed towards the inner part of the lower limb. There are some complications that can occur if the knee valgus if it is not treated on time, among the most common problems that can be mentioned are the distention of the adductor muscles of the thigh, this is a stretch of the muscles that perform the adduction of the hip, while on the other hand there is another great complication, and this is that an osteoarthritis of the outer region of the cartilages that are located both in the distal part of the femur bone and the cartilage found in the proximal part of the tibia. So this research has as aims to release how many Physical Therapy students that belong to the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Technical University of Amato have in their lower limbs a deviation of the angle of the knees known as a Genu Valgus. To demonstrate the question that we have proposed we are going to use the angle Q which is an angle formed by the middle line that leaves between the points of the anterior superior iliac spines and the middle part of the patella and another line that leaves the middle area of the tibia tuberosity with also the medial line of the kneecap, to assess if there is a deformation of knees, we also use a meter to take the height, a balance for the weight in pounds and a tab for the respective data which are names and surnames, age, sex and semester