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Usefulness of Assessment Tests for Locomotive Syndrome in Young Japanese Women

Received: 17 May 2023     Accepted: 8 June 2023     Published: 21 June 2023
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Background: Too few studies on the risk of locomotive syndrome in young women have been performed. Aim: To evaluate the relationship between the physique of healthy young Japanese women and their risk of developing locomotive syndrome in the future. Subjects and Methods: Young Japanese women (n=215, mean 19.0 ± standard deviation 0.6 y) were enrolled in the study. Anthropometric measurements were obtained. The participants performed a stand-up test and a two-step test for the assessment of the risk of locomotive syndrome as proposed by the Japanese Orthopaedic Association. Results: In the stand-up test, most participants (61.4%) could stand up from a seated position on one leg from a 30 cm or 40 cm stool. The median (Q1, Q3) of the two-step test was 1.51 (1.41, 1.59). These results were lower than the reference values for people in their 20s reported in the literature [J Orthop Sci 2020; 25: 1084]. In the stand-up test, as compared to the poor performers (stand on both legs from a 10 cm or 20 cm stool), better performers (stand on one leg from a 10 cm stool) had lower body height, weight, waist and hip circumferences, waist/hip ratio, %fat mass, visceral fat area, and lower-leg length and had higher %skeletal muscle and %limb muscle mass. In the two-step test, better performers (1.56–1.93) had longer upper-leg length and higher back muscle strength as compared to poor performers (1.13–1.45). Conclusion: The values obtained in the stand-up test and two-step test for young Japanese women were lower than the reference values reported. Subjects with a smaller physique had an advantage in the stand-up test, and in the two-step test, those with longer upper legs had an advantage. Precision will be necessary in these tests to compensate for stature, particularly higher/lower leg length. The results also indicate that back muscle strength may be an important factor for the two-step test performance.

Published in World Journal of Public Health (Volume 8, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.wjph.20230802.30
Page(s) 175-179
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Keywords

Locomotive Syndrome, Young Japanese Women, Stand-Up Test, Two-Step Test, Stature, Upper-Leg Length, Lower-Leg Length, Back Muscle Strength

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  • Division of Nutrition and Health, School and Graduate School of Life Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan

  • Division of Nutrition and Health, School and Graduate School of Life Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan

  • Division of Nutrition and Health, School and Graduate School of Life Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan

  • Division of Nutrition and Health, School and Graduate School of Life Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan

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