Purpose: To find the correlation between 6-Minute Push Test and 4-Functional Tasks who self-propel manual wheel chair for measuring the functional capacity in spinal cord injury patients who use manual wheelchair for propulsion. These 2 outcome measures are used to assess and monitor physical therapy problems for wheelchair bound patients with Spinal Cord Injury.
Methods: 50 spinal cord injury patients aged with of 18-65 years and both gender who self-propel a manual wheelchair were included in the study. Distance in meters or centimeters of 6-minute push test, one stroke push test and forward vertical reach test and time in seconds of forward wheeling, ramp ascending tasks were assessed.
Results: Data analysis revealed a moderate Negative Correlation Between distance (meters) of 6-Minute Push Test with time (seconds) of Forward Wheeling and Ramp Ascending tasks (r=-0.71, r=-0.69), positive correlation with Distance of One Stroke Push test (r = 0.607) and the result is Highly Significant but significant weak positive correlation with Distance of Forward Vertical Raising(r = 0.318)
Conclusion: This Study concludes that There is a Highly Significant Correlation Between 6-Minute Push Test and 4-Functional Tasks.
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