Programa de treinamento contínuo combinado com exercício resistido e seus efeitos sobre a capacidade física de adultos com lesão medular

Abstract

A recommendation for the practice of physical activity is closely related to health promotion and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases, therefore, it is essential the prescription of these practices to the entire community, emphasizing the public with spinal cord injury, due to the largely sedentary behavior and their susceptibility to decreased cardiorespiratory capacity and muscle strength due to limitations resulting from the injury. In addition, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a continuous training program combined with resistive exercises on the cardiorespiratory capacity and strength in adults with spinal cord injury. This research was characterized as quasi-experimental and totaled four participants (n=4) of both sexes, aged between 18 and 60 years. The intervention lasted 6 weeks, with a frequency of 2 days a week and 60 minutes per session. The tests for the analysis of the variables physical capacities were applied before and after the intervention. Then, after data collection, the findings obtained were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics in order to characterize the participants, and to analyze the effect of the training applied, the cardiorespiratory capacity was evaluated by the absolute variation (Δ) of the initial value with the final for each participant. For the variable of strength, was used the Wilcoxon test (p≤0.05), and additionally was verified, the effect size between the pre and post moments Cohen (d). At the end of the study, it is concluded that the method of training applied, despite not having found significant responses by conventional positive statistics, by means of clinical analysis may suggested that maintenance has occurred and / or individual improvement of cardiorespiratory capacity and improves the strength of the participants it can be used as a method of training the population with spinal cord injury. Results that reinforce the importance of exercise for sedentary individuals with SCI.