{"id":11281,"date":"2024-09-09T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=11281"},"modified":"2024-09-04T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T20:13:02","slug":"para-swimming-enhances-clinical-outcomes-for-people-with-cerebral-palsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2024\/09\/09\/para-swimming-enhances-clinical-outcomes-for-people-with-cerebral-palsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Para swimming enhances clinical outcomes for people with cerebral palsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Keywords: disability, sport, cerebral palsy\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this blog we explain how we used a novel single-case experimental research design to investigate the therapeutic value of participation in Para sport. Our study enrolled young people with profound cerebral palsy and high support needs in a Para swimming training program called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/habs.uq.edu.au\/parastart\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ParaSTART<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and monitored their training load, sports performance and gross motor function over 4 years [1].\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can watch a brief video on the ParaSTART program <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HxCRf7hHj7k\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11284\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-3-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-3-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-3.png 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Why is this study important?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young people with profound cerebral palsy and high support needs (CPHSN) are highly inactive and experience meaningful decline in their gross motor function during adolescence [2] [3]. This means that this group gradually has less independence, more challenges in doing activities of daily living and their mobility becomes poorer. Unfortunately, this decline is accepted as inevitable in clinical practice and results in poor health outcomes. It is possible that the relative inactivity of young people with CPHSN contributes to the decline and our study was the first to investigate this premise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study was important because the population of focus was a unique, understudied group \u2013 young people with CPHSN face great barriers to participation in sport and require significant support to reduce the risk of adverse events. The use of sport as the intervention was also important. The aim of the training intervention was solely to improve sports performance \u2013 to help participants be as good as they could be in Para swimming \u2013 as opposed to recreational or therapeutic exercise. Lastly, we used a novel research design which allowed us to tailor the training program to meet the unique needs of participants, and longitudinally monitor their gross motor function during a life-stage when decline is expected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11285\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-4-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-4-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-4.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>How did the study go about this?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We recruited 3 young people with CPHSN into a multiple-baseline, single-case experimental design (MB-SCED) study comprising five phases (A1-B1-A2-B2-A3) with a 30-month follow-up. \u2018A\u2019 phases were baseline or rest periods, and \u2018B\u2019 phases were swimming training intervention periods. The training delivery team was multidisciplinary and comprised coaches, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, medical doctors and psychologists \u2013 each were critical in safely and effectively implementing the training program. We conducted repeated measures of motor function throughout the duration of the MB-SCED study (total timepoints = 102). Following this, we monitored participants for a further 3 training seasons over the next 3 years [1].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To find out whether their swimming training influenced function, we compared the trajectory of each participants\u2019 gross motor scores against their own baseline, and against the decline predicted by population-based modelling [3].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Methodologically, the MB-SCED offered to us a robust alternative to a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) \u2013 implementing a safe, effective training program for a sample of sufficient size and homogeneity for an RCT w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">as infeasible in this case. The MB-SCED generated high-level evidence from a small sample and offered many advantages including: permitting the allocation of time and expertise to safely supervise participants in the pool; providing personalised assistance; and permitting us the freedom to individualise training programs without compromising experimental control [4].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11286\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-5-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-5-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-5.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>What did the study find?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, participants were highly engaged with the program and accumulated training volumes similar to World Health Organisation physical activity recommendations. Engagement was sustained \u2013 the participants still train with the ParaSTART program today (7 years later). The improvements we observed in motor function scores in response to training were significant in all participants, and two periods of training withdrawal each resulted in significant motor decline. Participant motor function remained above baseline levels for the study duration, and, importantly, participants did not experience the motor decline typical of other adolescents with CPHSN. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11282\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-1-300x142.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-1-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-1.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Figure 1: Training Load, swimming performance and GMFM-66 data for each participant throughout the 5-Phase A1-B1-A2-B2-A3 SCED study.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11283\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-2-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-2-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2024\/09\/para-sport-2.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Figure 2: Longitudinal training load and GMFM-66 data. The left panel displays training load data for each participant between the age of 15\/16 years and 19\/20 years (displayed x-axis; note that the baseline period is not temporally represented). The red horizontal line denotes the RPE-minute value commensurate with national physical activity guidelines (750 RPE mins\/wk). The right panel displays modelled GMFM data for each participant, with 95% confidence intervals, and the red line denotes the projected trajectory of motor decline, from the median of baseline GMFM-66 scores.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the key take-home points?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Competitive sport provides an age-appropriate, self-directed, sustainable context for young people with profound CP to achieve physical activity guidelines and maintain their gross motor function. These findings are not just relevant for Paralympic athletes. At the commencement of the trial participants in this study were not athletes \u2013 in fact they had no swimming training experience at all. Training volume (intensity x frequency x duration) and prolonged engagement appear to be critical. However, this population is clinically complex, and in order to permit safe, effective participation in competitive sport, priority should be placed on the development of programs delivered by skilled multi-professional teams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Authors<\/strong>: Iain Dutia, Emma Beckman and Sean Tweedy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>References<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dutia, I.M., et al., <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The power of Para sport: the effect of performance-focused swimming training on motor function in adolescents with cerebral palsy and high support needs (GMFCS IV) \u2013 a single-case experimental design with 30-month follow-up.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Br J Sports Med, 2024. <\/span><b>58<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(14): p. 777-784.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verschuren, O., et al., <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exercise and physical activity recommendations for people with cerebral palsy.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Developmental Medicine &amp; Child Neurology, 2016. <\/span><b>58<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(8): p. 798-808.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hanna, S.E., et al., <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stability and decline in gross motor function among children and youth with cerebral palsy aged 2 to 21 years.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Developmental Medicine &amp; Child Neurology, 2009. <\/span><b>51<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(4): p. 295-302.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nikles, J. and G. Mitchell, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Essential Guide to N-of-1 Trials in Health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 1st ed. 2015.. ed, ed. P. SpringerLink Content. 2015, Dordrecht: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keywords: disability, sport, cerebral palsy\u00a0 In this blog we explain how we used a novel single-case experimental research design to investigate the therapeutic value of participation in Para sport. 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