Secondary Complications in Spinal Cord Injury Paraplegic Wheelchair Basketball Players and Non-Athlete Paraplegic Wheelchair Users

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. Word Count: 11509