Aerobic performance in persons with spinal cord injuries during the arm ergometry

The persons with spinal cord injuries depend from upper body muscles in daily life activities. The movement with a wheelchair causes a lot of troubles, and this can be the main reason to the in active life style and bad finical health. The problem of the research is the following: Is the aerobic performance different of persons with different spinal cord injury level during arm ergometry and is the aerobic performance better of persons with spinal cord injuries who take exercise the in persons who don’t take exercise. Aim of research: Ascertain and evaluate the aerobic performance of persons with different spinal cord injuries during arm ergometry. Goals: 1. Ascertain and evaluate the men with different spinal cord injuries levels aerobic performance. 2. Ascertain and evaluate the women with different spinal cord injuries levels aerobic performance. 3. Compare the persons who take exercise and who don’t take exercise with different spinal cord injuries aerobic performance. Hypothesis of research: The persons with a low level spinal cord injuries aerobic performance are better then in persons with higher spinal cord injuries. And the person with spinal cord injuries who take sports aerobic performance is better than in persons who don‘t take sports. The researches were carried out in Lithuanian academy of physical education in adapted physical education laboratory. In this research participate 21 persons (8 men and 13 women) with spinal cord injuries. Research methods —.Constantly increasing continuous physical loads have been applied to all persons with spinal cord injuries by using a arm ergometer “Monark”. The wheel frequency was 70 times / min (rotations). The persons gas analyzer “Oxycon Mobile” has been used during the physical performance to continuously register pulmonary ventilation, respiratory frequency, oxygen usage (VO2), oxygen pulse, the capacity of performance (W) and cardiac systole frequency. The recording of cardiac systole frequency has been carried out using the “Polar AccuRec-Plus” pulse meter. The research results: The men with lower level spinal cord injuries aerobic performance is better then men with higher spinal cord injuries. The different of aerobic performance components: test power, pulmonary ventilation and oxygen uptake, were statistically credible (p