Effects of circuit resistance training on fitness attributes and upper-extremity pain in middle-aged men with paraplegia.

Objective: To examine the effects of circuit resistance exercise (CRT) training on muscle strength, endurance, anaerobic power, and shoulder pain in middle-aged men with paraplegia.

Design: Repeated testing.

Setting: Academic medical center.

Combined hyperlipidemia in a single subject with tetraplegia: ineffective risk reduction after atorvastatin monotherapy.

Background/objective: Effects of atorvastatin (Lipitor) drug monotherapy (10 mg daily) on fasting blood lipid profiles and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risks were examined for a single subject with C5-C6 tetraplegia. Routine fasting lipid profiles were analyzed by standard biochemistry techniques for total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C). Lipid profiles were analyzed on 3 occasions before drug therapy was initiated and 3 months after therapy commenced.

Effect of variable loading in the determination of upper-limb anaerobic power in persons with tetraplegia.

This article examines the effects of levels of resistance loading during arm Wingate Anaerobic Testing (WAnT) in persons with differing levels of cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). Thirty-nine persons with motor-complete SCI tetraplegia (13 each at C5, C6, and C7) performed six bouts of arm-crank WAnT with relative loads equivalent to 1.0, 1.

Metabolic and cardiac responses to robotic-assisted locomotion in motor-complete tetraplegia: a case report.

Background/objective: To examine acute metabolic responses to treadmill locomotion in a participant with motor-complete tetraplegia.

Methods: The participant--a woman with a chronic ASIA B C3-C4 spinal cord injury--walked on a treadmill with 40% body weight support (BWS) and robotic assistance. Oxygen consumption (VO2), minute ventilation (VE), and heart rate (HR) were measured during seated resting, supported standing, and 40 minutes of walking with stepping assistance from a Lokomat-driven gait orthosis.

Physiological responses to high-speed, open-wheel racecar driving.

Unlabelled: High-speed auto racing has been demonstrated to produce accelerated heart rate (HR) during competition. However, it has not been determined whether the increase in HR was due to physical work efforts or a result of emotional stress.

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to examine the physiological responses associated with open-wheel automobile driving at competitive speeds.