Healthy adults and handicap adults.
Conditions
Interventions
15 sessions of knesiotherapy treatment, with attention directed to movement parameters
The treatment will last 5 weeks, with 3 sessions a week of 50 minutes each. 5 groups of two subjects will be fo
SCHIMIDT & WRISBERG, 2005).
The treatment will consist of the following steps:
1) Warm-up: made of spacial movements in the wheel chair combined with active articular mobilization and auto passive w
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Sponsors
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 30 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Healthy adults: history of no muscular injury or not healed on dominant upper limb; no geometrical alterations on dominant upper limb; no reduction on normal joint amplitude of dominant upper limb; do not be overweight or obese. Handicap adults: to have a minimum of 1yr of medular injury; Level A or B of American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA); realese from physical therapy treatment for a maximum of 2yr; trunk balance sufficient to sustain upper limbs at 90 degrees angle for at least 30sec.; do not have history of muscular injury or not healed on dominant upper limb; do not have geometrical alterations on dominant upper limb; do not have reduction on normal joint amplitude of dominant upper limb; ulcera pressure; urinary infections; depression; do not be overweight or obese.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Healthy adults: to have history of muscular injury or not healed on dominant upper limb; geometrical alterations on dominant upper limb; reduction on normal joint amplitude of dominant upper limb; overweight or obesity. Handicap adults: to have more than 1yr of medular injury; Level C or higher of American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA); realese from physical therapy treatment for more than 2yr; trunk balance insufficient to sustain upper limbs at 90 degrees angle for at least 30sec.; have history of muscular injury not healed or treated on dominant upper limb; geometrical alterations on dominant upper limb; reduction on normal joint amplitude of dominant upper limb; ulcera pressure; urinary infections; depression; overweight or obesity.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The functional action studied will be the transport of a 1 liter jar filled with water, with two experimental condition: C1 to the front and C2 to the top. The trunk coordenative behaviour and upper body will be described thru tridimencional cinematic sincronized with electromiography. The variables are: 1) angular excursion 2) angular peak velocity 3) % movement time 4) linear peak velocity of the wrist, at coordenative axel X, Y and Z 5) time percentage for the peak at axel X,Y and Z 6) Total movement time Electromiographic variables: 1) onset of movement 2) onset muscle duration 3) Muscle latency, calculated by the time interval btw initial movement and onset instant 4) previous activation, onset duration btw 500ms before the movement and the begining of movement. It is expected that the group without medular lesion (SLM) will show differences at the coordenative behaviour at C1 and C2 conditions, confirming the relationship btw motor organization and functional demand of the task. It is expected that the group with medular lesion will show differences in coordination in relation to the group without medular lesion at C1 and C2 experimental conditions. It is expected that the attentional direction treatment for the amplitude variability parameters, velocity and tension at efector structures, positively interfers at the trunk and dominante superior limb coordenative behaviour of the group with medular lesion at experimental conditions C1 and C2. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) Presentation of the results to members of the Paraná Handicap Association. 2) Submission of the results to international journals. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactAndrea Serio Bertoldi
andrea bertoldi
Outcome results
None listed