Comparison of the anthropometrics assessment among athletes of basketball on wheel chair and physically activity individuals

• Autor(a) principal: Donatto, Felipe Fedrizzi
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Torres, Cesar Augusto, Kano, Flavio, Ferreira, Drucilla, Oliveira, Maria Rita Marques de, Navarro, Francisco
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de obesidade, nutrição e emagrecimento
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbone.com.br/index.php/rbone/article/view/80
• topic: Body composition; Spine injury; Obesity; Composición corporal; Lesión en la columna; Obesidad; Composizione corporea; Lesione della colonna vertebrale; Obesità; Composição corporal; Lesão coluna vertebral; Obesidade; Composição corporal; Lesão coluna vertebral; Obesidade

The objective of this study was to compare the basketball athletes' corporal composition in wheel chair in relation to normal individuals physically assets. The work was developed starting from the comparison of measures anthropometrics of two groups, and the first was constituted by 11 basketball players on wheel chair, lesion bearers in the spine, of the team of the XV of they Piracicaba-stamp, and the second was composed by 13 normal individuals physically assets, this being considered the group controls. The following measures were checked: I weigh real, estimate of the stature, circumferences of the arm, fist, waist and calf. They were not found statistical differences by the test t of Student in the comparisons among the following variables: I weigh, IMC circumferences of the fist, arm and among the appraised cutaneous pleats. However, the stature and the circumference of the calf were inferior statistical to the controls.Already the circumference of the waist was superior to the group it controls. It is ended thatin spite of the athletes with lesion bearers in the spine present compatible IMC with the controls, that population presents larger fat concentration in the abdominal area.