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Investigation of the Relationship Between Pulmonary Function and Muscle Strength in Athletes With Disability

Conditions
Disabilities Multiple
Interventions
Other: Muscle strength evaluation and Respiratory function Tests
Registration Number
NCT03769480
Lead Sponsor
Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University
Brief Summary

To investigate the relationship between respiratory function and core muscles strength in athletes with disabilities and compare with healthy athletes.

Detailed Description

The determination of parameters affecting the performance of high performance athletes that are effective in performance is very important to determine the physical performance potential. The body is a kinetic chain and core muscles play an important role in this chain. The relationship between the performance ability of the athletes and the relationship between the core muscles and performance abilities and respiratory function is extremely important. Different functional classifications caused by different barriers (physical, mental or visual) in many paralympic branches affect physical training because it is directly related to the classification, performance and training adaptations of an athlete. Determining the parameters that affect the respiratory function of paralympics is very important to develop a training program with strategies that can affect the physical performance of athletes and thus to achieve the desired results in training and competitions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between respiratory muscle strength and core muscle strength in paralympic athletes (athletes with disability).

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
25
Inclusion Criteria
  • Being professional athletes for at least three years.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Having any lumbar injuries in the last three months,
  • Having systemic problems other than their disabilities(for athletes with disabilities),
  • Having any disability related to vision and hearing,
  • Acute or chronic respiratory infection,
  • Spinal cord injury level up to the innervation of the abdominal muscles (for paraplegic athletes).

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Control GroupMuscle strength evaluation and Respiratory function TestsControl Group=Healthy Athletes
Study GroupMuscle strength evaluation and Respiratory function TestsStudy Group=Athletes with Disability
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
FVC (the rate of normal value by the spirometer device)2 days

Functional vital capacity: will evaluate by the rate of normal value by the spirometer device (Pony FX Cosmed device)

Muscle strength (Abdominal Flexor Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)2 days

Abdominal Flexor Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device (IsoMed 2000, trunk attachment).

Muscle strength (Abdominal Exstansor Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)2 days

Abdominal Extensor Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device (IsoMed 2000, trunk attachment).

FEV1 ( the rate of normal value by the spirometer device)2 days

First second Forced Expiratory Volume:will evaluate by the rate of normal value by the spirometer device (Pony FX Cosmed device)

Muscle strength (Abdominal right rotator Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)2 days

Abdominal right rotator Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device (IsoMed 2000, trunk attachment).

Muscle strength (Abdominal left rotator Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)2 days

Abdominal left rotator Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device (IsoMed 2000, trunk attachment).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Bihter Akınoğlu

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Ankara, Turkey

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