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Study Design
Researchers assessed 19 male elite wheelchair court athletes: 10 wheelchair basketball players and nine wheelchair rugby players. Participants completed an initial maximum push-rim propulsion test, a 12-m linear sprint with 3-, 5-, and 12-m split times, and a 3L3R wheelchair manoeuvrability test. The study evaluated whether these field-based assessments could help identify differences associated with functional performance profiles.
Reliability and Propulsion Findings
Reliability was high across all assessments, with intraclass correlation coefficients of at least 0.82. The higher functional performance profile group recorded substantially greater propulsion outputs. Reported differences were large for mean velocity, maximum velocity, mean power, and maximum power, with effect sizes ranging from 1.75 to 3.29 and all reported p values below 0.001.
Sprint and Manoeuvrability Results
Sprint testing showed large between-group differences at 5 m and 12 m, with effect sizes of 1.53 and 1.68, respectively; both comparisons had p values below 0.001. Manoeuvrability differences were moderate, with an effect size of 0.62 and p = 0.043. The authors concluded that propulsion and short-distance sprint tests appeared sensitive to differences between athletes with distinct real-world functional performance profiles and may be useful for performance monitoring.
