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Thermoregulatory responses during competitive wheelchair rugby match play

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posted on 2016-11-11, 11:18 authored by Katy Griggs, George HavenithGeorge Havenith, Michael J. Price, Barry Mason, Vicky Goosey-TolfreyVicky Goosey-Tolfrey
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a player’s physical impairment or activity profile was related to the amount of thermal strain experienced during wheelchair rugby match play. Seventeen elite wheelchair rugby players played a competitive match, whilst activity profiles, measures of core and skin temperature, heart rate and perceptual responses were taken. Players were divided into two groups depending on their physical impairment; players with a cervical spinal cord injury, (n = 10) or non-spinal related physical impairment (n = 7). Total distance was lower (4842 ± 324 m vs. 5541 ± 316 m, p < 0.01, ES = 2.2) and mean speed slower (1.13 ± 0.11 m∙s-1 vs 1.27 ± 0.11 m∙s-1, p < 0.03, ES = 1.3) in players with a spinal cord injury. Yet, the change in core temperature (1.6 ± 0.4°C vs. 0.7 ± 0.3°C, p < 0.01, ES = 2.5) was significantly greater in players with a spinal cord injury. In conclusion, players with a spinal cord injury were under greater thermal strain during wheelchair rugby match play, as a result of their reduced heat loss capacity, due to their physical impairment and not because of their activity profile.

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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

International Journal of Sports Medicine

Citation

GRIGGS, K.E. ... et al, 2017. Thermoregulatory responses during competitive wheelchair rugby match play. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 38 (3), pp. 177-183.

Publisher

Georg Thieme Verlag

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-12-02

Publication date

2017-02-13

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal International Journal of Sports Medicine and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-121263

ISSN

1439-3964

Language

  • en