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Effect of wheelchair Training in Paraplegic athletes

Not Applicable
Conditions
Health Condition 1: S341- Other and unspecified injury of lumbar and sacral spinal cord
Registration Number
CTRI/2021/03/032098
Lead Sponsor
Gaurav Kadyan
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

1. Subjects with paraplegia from traumatic cause (spinal level T1-12)

2. Duration of injury : more than 1 year

3. Age -20-40 years

4. ASIA-A,B

5.Subject should be completely active in ADLs and functionally independent.

6.Subjects will required to be sedentary that is no leisure time physical activity or a strenuous exercise within 48 hours prior testing

Exclusion Criteria

1.Subjects taking medication that could affect heart rate e.g. beta blockers, Ca++ channel blockers

2.Subjects with premorbid respiratory condition like asthma, COPD, restrictive lung diseases

3.Active Smokers.

4.History of unstable angina, recent cardiac infarction, uncontrolled hypertension, kidney failure, autonomic dysfunction, diabetes.

5.Subjects with any diagnosed cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, physiological, musculoskeletal, psychiatric disorders other than spinal cord injury, obesity, and drug users specially drugs affecting nervous system.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Dependent Variables <br/ ><br>Cardiac autonomic function: Heart rate variability <br/ ><br>Functional capacity parameters <br/ ><br>Hand grip dynamometry test <br/ ><br>Six minute push test <br/ ><br>Yo-Yo intermittent adapted recovery test <br/ ><br>VO2 Peak <br/ ><br>Timepoint: day 0 (pre-intervention) and after 6 weeks of training post reading post intervention (day 46) <br/ ><br>Dependent Variables <br/ ><br>Cardiac autonomic function: Heart rate variability <br/ ><br>Functional capacity parameters <br/ ><br>Hand grip dynamometry test <br/ ><br>Six minute push test <br/ ><br>Yo-Yo intermittent adapted recovery test <br/ ><br>VO2 Peak <br/ ><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
wheelchair endurance drillsTimepoint: before intervention after the study get the registration, after 6 weeks of intervention
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