Effect of repeated locomotor training on ventilatory measures, perceived exertion and walking endurance in persons with motor incomplete spinal cord injury.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Pre-Post, Repeated Measures.

Objectives

To determine if a warm-up bout of exercise could elicit a phasic ventilatory response to constant work rate (CWR) exercise in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) during unsupported CWR treadmill walking. Describe the changes in ventilatory kinetics, ventilatory variability and ratings of perceived exertion (RPE) before and after 12 and 24 weeks of overground locomotor training (OLT). Investigate the relationship among minute ventilation (V_E) variability, RPE, and walking endurance.

Setting

Laboratory.

Methods

A 6-min CWR was used as a warm-up preceding a CWR, at the same walking speed, until volitional fatigue or 30 min. Breath-by-breath ventilatory data were examined during the s

SUBMITTER: Panza GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7550559 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature