Abstract:
Purpose: To find out the secondary complications among the spinal cord injury
paraplegic wheelchair basketball players and non-athlete paraplegic wheelchair users.
Objectives: To explore the association between spinal cord injury paraplegic wheelchair
basketball players and non-athlete paraplegic wheelchair users with secondary
complications. Methodology: The study design was cross-sectional. A total of 110
samples were selected conveniently for this study. Data was collected by using a
questionnaire. Descriptive statistics using SPSS software version 22.0 were used for data
analysis. Result: In this study, the maximum age range of the participants were in athletes
26-35 in this range which were 53% and in non-athletes were 47% in age range 18-25.
Male were in athletes 65%, female 35% and in non-athletes male were 84% female were
16%. Among the participants, pressure sore in athletes were 14% and non-athletes were
43%, pain were in the athletes 78% and in non-athletes were 74%, muscle tone were in
athletes spastic 13% flaccid 7% and in non-athletes were spastic 27% flaccid 22%,
stiffness of joint were in athletes 18% and in non-athletes were 42%, muscle atrophy
were in athletes were 33% and in non-athletes were 42%, contracture were in athletes
24% and in non-athletes were 20%, urological complications were in athletes were 14%
and in non-athletes were 29%, cardio-respiratory complications in athletes 38% and in
non-athletes were 34%, autonomic dysreflexia were in athletes 33% and in non-athletes
were 40%, heterotopic bone ossification were in athletes 3% and in non-athletes 5%,
psychological complications were in athletes 40% and in non-athletes were 73%. The
researcher found P Value of secondary complications with athletes and non-athletes were
0.05 which means this are significant with non-athletes. Conclusion: This study provides
a snapshot for secondary complications in paraplegic wheelchair players and non-athletes
paraplegic wheelchair users. Here, researchers tried to find out the association between
athletes and non-athletes with secondary complications and the result was that there were
some association between athletes and non-athletes
Key words: Secondary complications, paraplegic wheelchair player, paraplegic
wheelchair users.
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Description:
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.