title: Muscle damage occurring in wheelchair sports people.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kyushu Rosai Hospital, Kitakyushu, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ogata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000378:metabolism*; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D018763:Muscle Fatigue / Q000502:physiology*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000293:injuries / Q000503:physiopathology; D009211:Myoglobin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012016:Reference Values; D014910:Wheelchairs / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D009211:Myoglobin; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D003402:Creatine Kinase