Status:
COMPLETED
Heat Stress in Wheelchair Sports
Lead Sponsor:
Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil
Conditions:
Heat Stress
Body Temperature Changes
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-60 years
Brief Summary
The aim of the study is to study the thermoregulatory responses under real life conditions, such as during wheelchair rugby and basketball matches. A further goal is to develop and validate a standard...
Detailed Description
A spinal cord injury leads to several physiological changes and complications, which might influence exercise performance (Perret and Abel, 2016). One major problem is the limited thermoregulation, es...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Informed consent as documented by signature
- healthy, male or female wheelchair rugby (with tetraplegia) or basketball player (with paraplegia) of national or international level
- regularly taking part in competitions/games
- age between 18 and 60 years
Exclusion
- asthma
- blood disorders
- actual injury, which impairs performance or other impossibility to exercise to exhaustion
- cardiovascular disease
- gastrointestinal disease, disorder or former surgery concerning the gastrointestinal tract
- not able to swallow a capsule
- less than 40kg of body mass
- MRI during the period of use of the e-Celsius® device
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2018
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 31 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
16 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03815708
Start Date
November 1 2018
End Date
August 31 2022
Last Update
March 13 2023
Active Locations (1)
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Swiss Paraplegic Centre
Nottwil, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, 6207