AGE FEATURES OF MORPHOMETRIC INDICATORS OF SPINE IN 13-16 YEARS OLD GIRLS

AGE FEATURES OF MORPHOMETRIC INDICATORS OF SPINE IN 13-16 YEARS OLD GIRLS

Dilyora Khakimova

student, Yeoju Technical Institute in Tashkent,

Uzbekistan, Tashkent

Jobir Akhmedov

associate Professor, Yeoju Technical Institute in Tashkent,

Uzbekistan, Tashkent

ABSTRACT

Object of Research: Healthy girls aged 13-16, studying at School #278 of Olmazor district in Tashkent. Total amount of examined girls are 111 pupils, aged 13-16.

Data of research was statistically processed on Pentium IV PC via Microsoft Office Excel 2007, including usage of embedded functions of statistical manipulation.

Indicators of height in teen-girls at the age of 13-16 increased 1,16 times. Sizes of cervical compartment of Spine later grew by 1,20 times; thoracic and lumbar parts of spine are enlarged by 1,14 times each; length of sacrococcygeal spine prolonged by 1,21 times.

Temp of increasing the Spine length in the objects of research occurs more intensive in comparison with the cervical and sacrococcygeal segments of spine.

Keywords: girls, spine, indicators of height, temp of Spine length.

Relevance

Complex transformations of the vertebral column in the process of evolutionary, phylogenic and ontogenic development led to its insufficient stability and reliability. Various pathological processes developing in the spine are the cause of suffering for people of different ages from early childhood to senile period.

Data on age dynamics, sexual dimorphism, individual and topographic mobility of the vertebral column as a whole, its divisions, individual vertebrae and their parts are of great theoretical importance and utilized in practical health care.

Forehanded detection of deformation of the musculoskeletal system is one of the most effective therapeutic and prophylactic measures. Due to this, it is urgent to investigate the age related characteristics of the morphometric indicators of various parts of the spinal column in children and adolescents.

Purpose of the study: Examine features of the morphometric indicators of numerous parts of the spinal column associated with age in children and adolescents

Material and methods

Healthy girls of school №278 at Almazar district of Tashkent city, at the age of 13 to 16 succoured as the objects of the study. Overall, 111 girls at given age were examined.

The obtained data were subjected to statistical processing on the Pentium IV computer using the Microsoft office Excel 2007 software package, including in the use of built-in-statistical processing functions.

Research results and discussion

From the received data it is obvious that the total length of the spinal column of 13 years old female children fluctuates from 52.56 cm to 60.12 cm, with an average of 55.93±3.13 cm. The section of the cervical spine varies from 6.35 cm to 7.27 cm, for the most part, 6.77±0.36 cm. Difference in the region of thoracic spine registers 27.27cm to 31.20cm, in most cases 29.03±1.71 cm. The length of the lumbar spine ranges from 9.93cm to 11.36cm, on average 10.57±0.57. Sacrococccygeal region records 8.98 cm to 10.28 cm, on the whole 9.56±0.45 cm.

Graph 1. Size of the vertebral column and its parts (cm) of 13 year-old girls

Altogether, 14 years old girls vertebral column’s length records higher positions comparing to the previous ones, varying approximately to 2 cm (from 50.0 cm to 61.92 cm), that is 56.34±0.45 cm on average. Followings were signed in the practical: variation from 6.02cm to 7.49 cm, generally 6.82±0.29 cm in cervical spine, length of thoracic vertebra and sacrococcygeal spine fluctuates from 9.45 cm to 11.70 cm and 8.55 cm to 10.58 cm, being on average 10.64±0.55 cm and 9.63±0.53, respectively.

Graph 2. Size of the vertebral column and its parts (cm) of 14 year old girls

The total length of the spinal column of girls at 15 years old ranges from 54.8 cm to 61.92cm, in average 63.6±3.43 cm. The length of the cervical spine varies from 6.90 to 8.92 cm, generally, 8.02±0.43 cm. Thoracic region ranged from 27.95 cm to 36.1 cm, on average 32.45 cm. Lumbar spine’s length oscillates 10.2 cm to 13.17 cm, basically 11.8±0.54 cm. Sacrococcygeal part differs from 9.8 cm to 12.7 cm, normally 11.38±0.56 cm.

Graph 3. Size of the vertebral column and its parts of girls at the age of 15

Total length of vertebral column at the last examined age, 16 years old female children exposes the highest indications compared to previous ages, from 58 cm to 69.2 cm, in average 64.74±3.82 cm. The cervical vertebra varied at 7.31 cm to 8.72 cm, being normally at 8.16±0.39 cm. The length of thoracic vertebra at this age is 33±0.32, however it shows 29.58 cm to 35.29 cm. Numbers for the lumbar region depicted variation between 10.78 cm to 12.87 cm, the average is position 12.04±0.56cm. The sacrococcygeal bone size fluctuates from 10.38 cm to 12.39 cm, on the whole 11.58±0.65 cm.

Graph 4. Size of the vertebral column and its parts of girls at the age of 16

In consequence, the expansion in the size of the spinal column in female children aged 13 to 16 years in the cervical and sacrococcygeal region is more intense than the thoracic and lumbar regions.

Conclusion

1. The total length of the spinal column in female children aged 13 to 16 increases by 1.16 times
2. The size of the cervical vertebra in the objects of research showed slight slope by 1.20 times; coming to thoracic and lumbar region, these parts numbers are increased by 1.14 in both and the sacrococcygeal bone size enlarged by 1.21 times.

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