Le port de charge cephalique et ses consequences sur le rachis lombraire des femmes beninoises en milieu rural

Abstract

This survey is about the carriage cephalic load and its consequences on the spinal lumbar of the Beninese women in farming environment. We valued the strengths of compression and shearing, the lateral deviations and posterior sacred angle modifications bound to this type of portage of 25 women bearers of load on the head of the township of Dangbo (R. Benin).
The gotten results permitted us to raise several anomalies to the level of the rachis. In short the load carriage on the head entails static troubles of the rachis whose the scoliosis, the lumbar breaks, the hyper lordosis and of the pathologies as the vertebral crowdings to see the sacralization of the 5th even lumbar