Alterations in shoulder kinematics are associated with shoulder pain during wheelchair propulsion sprints.

ABSTRACT: The study purpose was to examine the biomechanical characteristics of sports wheelchair propulsion and determine biomechanical associations with shoulder pain in wheelchair athletes. Twenty wheelchair court-sport athletes (age: 32 ± 11 years old) performed one submaximal propulsion trial in their sports-specific wheelchair at 1.67 m/s for 3 min and two 10 s sprints on a dual-roller ergometer. The Performance Corrected Wheelchair User's Shoulder Pain Index (PC-WUSPI) assessed shoulder pain. During the acceleration phase of wheelchair sprinting, participants propelled with significantly longer push times, larger forces, and thorax flexion range of motion (ROM) than both the maximal velocity phase of sprinting and submaximal propulsion. Participants displayed significantly greater peak glenoh

SUBMITTER: Briley SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545165 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature