Metabolic and Physical Variables of Wheelchair Basketball Players with Upper Limb Polio and Spinal Cord Injuries: Relationships to the Functional Classification System
| Main Authors: | Gabrielly Craveiro Ramos, Jônatas de França Barros |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
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, 2007
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3631867 |
Daftar Isi:
- Abstract—The Functional Classification System is based on the movements that wheelchair athletes can make when playing wheelchair basketball. However, when these athletes have upper-limb polio, it makes this system difficult to use, because this disease no longer exists in all but a few countries. However, in Brazil, more than 50% of wheelchair athletes had polio, and it is difficult to classify them using the existing system. The objective of this research is to improve the Functional Classification System and to test its efficacy. This research used comparisons of metabolic and physical evaluations (medicine ball throw test, hand grip strength test, and 20-meter speed test) of wheelchair basketball players with spinal cord injury and players with upper-limb polio, and relates these results to the Functional Classification System. This was a transversal study, with a sample of 18 athletes. Group 1 was comprised of seven athletes with upper limb polio. Group 2 was comprised of eleven athletes with spinal cord injuries. Data from the athletes with upper limb polio were collected in Recife, at the State University of Pernambuco. Data from the athletes with spinal cord injury were collected in São Paulo, at the Federal University. All subjects were compared using the following variables: Ergoespirometry with adapted treadmill to measure pulmonary gas exchange during exercise (VO2 , VCO2 and FC), medicine ball throw test, hand grip strength test, and 20-meter speed test. For the statistical analysis, we used the Mann-Whitney test (p < 0.05). The results for Group 1 and 2 are as follows: Group 1, medicine ball throw = 294.19 cm; 20-meter speed = 6.28 s; hand grip strength right and left hands = 34.11 Kg/f and 42.11 Kg/f, respectively; and Group 2, medicine ball throw = 395.78 cm; 20-meter speed = 5.52 s; hand grip strength right and left hands = 58.64 Kg/f and 56.41 Kg/f, respectively. For the test of adapted treadmill, greater gas exchanges (VO2. VCO2 , FC) were observed in Group 2 as compared with Group 1. These results demonstrate that the Functional Classification System that was applied to these athletes must be reconsidered, since it does not agree with the metabolic and physical data from these groups.