[Influence of overweight on the load-capacity of the supporting and locomotion system in women].

119 50-year-old women were examined with regard to connections between apparatus of locomotion and overweight. Middle-aged women with overweight compared with women with normal weight more frequently complain of podalgias and of by Schober's signs objectifyable sacrodynias. Compared with women with normal weight in them a more frequent hyperlordosis can be established. The percentage of the degenerative spondylopathies of 61% and of the densitometrically established osteoporosis of 25.4% in the total material corresponds with literary data. There are no differences between women with normal weight and overweight. In contrast to persons with normal weight persons with overweight have only somewhat more frequently the combination of hyperlordosis with degenerative processes of the lumbar vertebral column. The biconcavity index established at the lumbar vertebral bodies is in the lower region in persons with overweight as well as in persons with normal weight. Osteoporotic lumbar vertebral bodies show a decreased frequently of spondylosis. There is no correlation between the radiological parameters established at the lumbar vertebral column and the objectified by Schober's signs decrease of the function of the lumbar vertebral column. A decreased height of the plantar arch and a correlating with this bredth of the step plane of the foot in adipose persons compared with normal persons we regarded as an expression of the increased load of the foot, also in such cases where a connection with the more frequent foot-complaints could not be ascertained. Perhaps it corresponds with that fact that only the developing flat-foot causes complaints. In general a positive correlation is to be found between the frequency of sacrodynias and podalgias.