Clinical trial NCT03769480: Investigation of the Relationship Between Pulmonary Function and Muscle Strength in Athletes With Disability
Official title: Investigation of the Relationship Between Pulmonary Function and Muscle Strength in Athletes With Disability
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Disabilities Multiple
Keywords: Athletes
Disability
Respiratory Function
Core Muscles
Sport
Lead sponsor: Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-12-07
Enrollment: 25
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Maximum age (years): 45
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study group is Athletes with disabilities.

The control group is the same sport branches but healthy athletes without any disabilites

Brief summary: To investigate the relationship between respiratory function and core muscles strength in athletes with disabilities and compare with healthy athletes.

Detailed description: The determination of parameters affecting the performance of high performance athletes that are effective in performance is very important to determine the physical performance potential. The body is a kinetic chain and core muscles play an important role in this chain. The relationship between the performance ability of the athletes and the relationship between the core muscles and performance abilities and respiratory function is extremely important. Different functional classifications caused by different barriers (physical, mental or visual) in many paralympic branches affect physical training because it is directly related to the classification, performance and training adaptations of an athlete. Determining the parameters that affect the respiratory function of paralympics is very important to develop a training program with strategies that can affect the physical performance of athletes and thus to achieve the desired results in training and competitions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between respiratory muscle strength and core muscle strength in paralympic athletes (athletes with disability).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being professional athletes for at least three years.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having any lumbar injuries in the last three months,
* Having systemic problems other than their disabilities(for athletes with disabilities),
* Having any disability related to vision and hearing,
* Acute or chronic respiratory infection,
* Spinal cord injury level up to the innervation of the abdominal muscles (for paraplegic athletes).

Primary outcomes:
measure: FVC (the rate of normal value by the spirometer device)
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: FEV1 ( the rate of normal value by the spirometer device)
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Muscle strength (Abdominal Flexor Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Muscle strength (Abdominal Exstansor Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Muscle strength (Abdominal right rotator Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Muscle strength (Abdominal left rotator Muscle Strength: will evaluate as Newtonmeter (Nm) by isokinetic device)
timeFrame: 2 days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ankara
country: Turkey
facility: Bihter Akınoğlu
Study officials:
affiliation: The Ministry of Youth and Sports, Sports General Directorship, Ankara, Turkey
name: Tuğba Kocahan, Dr
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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