Fuerza Prensil y riesgo de caídas en el Adulto Mayor no institucionalizado del programa Centro Día de la Alcaldía de Pamplona.

Abstract

Background: Aging is a biological, universal, individual, asynchronous and natural process that causes morphophysiological changes in body systems. Of these changes, those that occur in the musculoskeletal system, such as sarcopenia and muscle weakness, have been extensively studied given their relationship with increased risk of falls, frailty, and high hospitalization and mortality rates, since muscle weakness is associated with a deterioration in the development of activities of daily living and limitation in the participation of older people, affecting their perception of selfwell-being; Objective: establish the relationship between the values of prehensile strength with the risk of falls in non-institutionalized older adults; Methods: As correlational design of crosssectional space-time dimension was used, with a population of 80 older adults belonging to 3 groups of older adults who are part of the older adult program, the risk of falling was evaluated with the timed up and go test and the handgrip strength was evaluated with manual dynamometry Results: by applying the non-parametric test called Spearman's coefficient, it was possible to determine the relationship between the values of the Timed Up and Go test and the strength of the right hand, and establishing a significance level in the Timed Up and Go test, of p=0.006 indicating that there is an inverse association (Spearman's correlation of -0.312) between the values of the Timed Up and Go test and the handgrip strength of the right hand. Conclusion: A low negative correlation was found between the right grip strength and the timed up and go test.