Citation

Ide M, Ogata H, Kobayashi M, Wada F. Spinal Cord 1997; 35(4): 234-237.

Affiliation

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kyushu Rosai Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, International Spinal Cord Society, Publisher Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9143086

Abstract

Seven college-age healthy men exercised on a wheelchair treadmill to evaluate muscle damage that may occur from wheelchair propulsion. An experimental model in which a participant performs up-hill running in a wheelchair was prepared. Plasma creatinekinase (CK), myoglobin (Mb) and lactatedehydrogenase (LDH) were measured as parameters. Blood samples were taken pre-, immediately after-, 24 h after- and 72 h after the exercise. All of these parameters significantly increased after the exercise, but their time-courses were apparently varied. It is concluded that wheelchair propulsion causes muscle damage in certain situations such as up-hill running.

Language: en