Prospective associations of physical fitness with spinal flexibility in childhood: implications for primary prevention of non-specific back pain.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early predictors for back pain need to be identified for the development of prevention strategies starting as early as childhood. For this purpose, the relationship between physical fitness and spinal flexibility at the age of six years and its prediction for the development of non-specific back pain (BP) during childhood were analyzed.

Methods

In this prospective cohort study with 4-year follow-up, school children from the Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt, aged 6-8 (2014) at baseline and 10-12 years (2018) at follow-up, were recruited from 26 primary schools (n = 238) within a mandatory evaluation of motor skills. Data for spinal flexibility were collected by use of a hand-held computer-assisted device and physical fitness was assessed by shuttle run performance a

SUBMITTER: Bade S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10352488 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature