Cardiovascular Stress During Inpatient Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(1) To measure the amount of cardiovascular stress, self-reported physical activity, and accelerometry-measured physical activity by individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) during physical therapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT); and (2) to investigate the relations between these measures.

Design

Observational study.

Setting

Two inpatient SCI rehabilitation centers.

Participants

Patients with SCI (N=87) were recruited from consecutive admissions to rehabilitation.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main outcome measures

Heart rate was recorded by a Holter monitor, whereas physical activity was captured by self-report (Physical Activity Recall Assessment for People with SCI questionnaire) and real-time wrist accelerometry during a total

SUBMITTER: Zbogar D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5766325 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature