2023 Volume 31 Issue 1 Pages 76-85
In this study, we focused on “limitation of standing forward flexion”in a musculoskeletal examination,followed the results of the examination for six years, and examined the characteristics of individual developmental status of elementary school students.
Thirty-nine children with six-year records of musculoskeletal examinations and growth data of one public elementary school in Ibaraki Prefecture were examined. The height growth velocity curve was drawn based on the individual height data, and the age at take-off, and the peak velocity was confirmed. We assigned children to the “emergence group”if they had “limitation of standing forward flexion”at least once in six years of those who had no findings in the first grade.
There were 19 boys and 12 girls who did not have “limitation of standing forward flexion”in the first grade.
When the records of this group were followed up for six years, nine boys and three girls later presented with this finding. Four out of nine boys presented with this finding at an age of take-off±1.0 years. It is necessary to conduct multivariate analysis that includes various factors such as exercise habits and physical fitness to properly understand the musculoskeletal system of children.
