The Impact of Sports Training on the Spinal Cord Injury Individual’s Balance

Spinal cord injury (SCI) presents significant challenges to individuals, impacting their mobility and daily life activities. One of the challenges that people with SCI may face is maintaining both static and dynamic sitting balance. Sports and physical activities provide a practical context in which some adaptive strategies can be developed, practiced, and refined. Sports differ from and are one more tool than therapeutic exercise. The study aims to understand how much and in what way the balance strategies of people with SCI are changed after a sport rehabilitation program. We hypothesize that a sport rehabilitation program improves the ability of people with SCI to maintain static balance.

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  The results demonstrate improvements in static balance, with significant reductions in sway length and mean velocity.
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  Significant positive correlations were found between gender and height with SDC MT CE condition and between trunk activity and SDC MD CE condition.
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  The general trend of all indices shows an improvement in stability and balance maintenance when following sport rehabilitation program, as already demonstrated in other studies on different sports cases.