Background Many strategies are in use with the intention of preventing or minimising
delayed onset muscle soreness and fatigue after exercise. Cold‐water immersion, in water …

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) may result in tetraplegia (motor and/or sensory nervous
system impairment of the arms, trunk and legs) or paraplegia (motor and/or sensory …

Paralympic medicine describes the health-care issues of those 4500 or so athletes who
gather every 4 years to compete in 20 sports at the Summer Paralympic Games and in five …

We used three techniques of precooling to test the hypothesis that heat strain would be
alleviated, muscle temperature (Tmu) would be reduced, and as a result there would be …

The aim of this review is to offer dietary advice for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI)
and neurogenic bowel dysfunction. With this in mind, we consider health conditions that are …

The increased participation in wheelchair sports in conjunction with environmental
challenges posed by the most recent Paralympic venues has stimulated interest into the …

International sporting competitions, including the Paralympic Games, are increasingly being
held in hot and/or humid environmental conditions. Thus, a greater emphasis is being …

This report briefly summarizes the cardiovascular factors that influence exercise physiology
and, eventually, sports performance of athletes with a spinal cord injury (SCI). The …

Spinal cord injury results in physiologic adaptations affecting heat production (reduced
muscle mass) and heat dissipation (blood redistribution and reduced sweating capacity …

Despite the growing interest in Paralympic sport, the evidence base for supporting elite
wheelchair sport performance remains in its infancy when compared with able-bodied (AB) …