Podiatric Disorders, Risk of Falls and Pain in the Elderly

Abstract

Objective: to relate podiatric disorders, osteoarticular type with functionality, risk of falls and pain in the elderly. Methods: observational, cross-sectional and descriptive study. Non-randomized sampling by convenience in 100 adults over 60 years old; carried out in a Family Medicine Unit in Mexico City. Podiatric diagnosis was conducted and the scales to evaluate the risk of falling (Tinetti), for functionality (Lawton and Brody) and the analog scale of pain (eva) were applied. The U of Mann-Whitney test, 0.05 significance level, and statistical program spss v18 were used. Results: 99% of the patients presented at least one foot pathology. In 18% of the cases there were associations between pathologies. The highest prevalence was Hallux valgus with 54%; 43% of the population presented some degree of dependency in daily living activities. When relating foot pathologies with functionality, pain and risk of falls; it was only obtained a statistical significance between Hallux valgus.