Characterization and functional activity time for sitting and standing from chair for healthy boys

Abstract

Introduction: Researches on functional activity for sitting on chair, unlike the activity for standing from it, are poorly studied, creating a gap when generating patterns for dysfunction comparison. Objective: Characterizing functional activity for sitting on chair and execution time for sitting and standing from chair for healthy boys. Methods: For this study, 37 healthy boys participated in it. They were filmed performing the activity, totaling 111 observations and records. The proposed activity time was timed. Result: The functional activity for sitting on chair possesses three phases. For sitting on chair, time average was 1.07 s; for standing, 1.01 s. Conclusion: A similar pattern among the studied boys for sitting on chair was found, observing that the head movement can occur or not, and the upper limb support is common. For the activity execution time there was not difference concerning sitting and standing from chair.