Effect of indoor wheelchair curling training on trunk control of person with chronic spinal cord injury: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Randomised, controlled, single-blind crossover design study.

Objective

Effect of indoor wheelchair curling training on trunk control of a person with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting

SCI Centre of Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.

Methods

The trunk control of 13 subjects was assessed by the modified functional reach test (MFRT) and nonlinear dynamic systems analysis (NDSA) before and after eight indoor curling training sessions and compared to everyday life over 4 weeks.

Results

The attendance rate was 95% during the training sessions. There were no adverse events. Neither the MRFT nor the NDSA showed any significant differences in the sitting stability. The subjects subjectively reported improved physical feeling

SUBMITTER: Herzog T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5862970 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature