ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2014
Blood lactate and ventilatory thresholds in wheelchair athletes with tetraplegia and paraplegia.
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- A Reappraisal of Ventilatory Thresholds in Wheelchair Athletes With a Spinal Cord Injury: Do They Really Exist?Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
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- The influence of protocol design on the identification of ventilatory thresholds and the attainment of peak physiological responses during synchronous arm crank ergometry in able-bodied participants.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Article
- Interrater and intrarater reliability of ventilatory thresholds determined in individuals with spinal cord injury.Spinal cord · 2019Article
- Examination of gas exchange and blood lactate thresholds in Paralympic athletes during upper-body poling.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Comparison Between 30-15 Intermittent Fitness Test and Multistage Field Test on Physiological Responses in Wheelchair Basketball Players.Frontiers in physiology · 2015Article
- Perspective: Does Laboratory-Based Maximal Incremental Exercise Testing Elicit Maximum Physiological Responses in Highly-Trained Athletes with Cervical Spinal Cord Injury?Frontiers in physiology · 2015Article
- Individualized Internal and External Training Load Relationships in Elite Wheelchair Rugby Players.Frontiers in physiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to analyse the influence of spinal cord injury level on blood lactate (BLa) and ventilatory thresholds.
methodsTen athletes with tetraplegia (TETRA) and nine athletes with paraplegia (PARA) performed a graded wheelchair propulsion treadmill exercise step test to exhaustion. The aerobic and anaerobic BLa thresholds, the ventilatory threshold and the respiratory compensation point (RCP) were determined.
resultsThe BLa thresholds were determined in 34 of 38 cases, ventilatory thresholds and RCPs in 31 of 38 cases. The anaerobic BLa threshold (76 ± 7 % [Formula: see text]) and the RCP (77 ± 8 % [Formula: see text]) did not differ significantly from each other (P = 0.92), with a coefficient of variation of 4.8 ± 3.4 % between thresholds. All other thresholds differed significantly from each other (P < 0.05). Thresholds expressed as the percentage of peak oxygen uptake did not differ between TETRA and PARA (P > 0.05) despite altered breathing in TETRA, which included a higher ventilatory equivalent for oxygen and a lower tidal volume.
conclusionMeasuring BLa leads to a higher threshold determination rate compared with ventilatory data and the anaerobic BLa threshold can be used to predict the RCP. The altered breathing in TETRA does not seem to have a pronounced effect on the ventilatory threshold or the RCP.
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