Assessment of the Talk Test and Rating of Perceived Exertion for Exercise Intensity Prescription in Persons With Paraplegia | Zendy

Rachel E. Cowan | Zendy; Kelly Ginnity | Zendy; Jochen Kressler | Zendy; Mark S. Nash | Zendy

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Assessment of the Talk Test and Rating of Perceived Exertion for Exercise Intensity Prescription in Persons With Paraplegia

Author(s) -

Rachel E. Cowan,

Kelly Ginnity,

Jochen Kressler,

Mark S. Nash

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 1945-5763

pISSN - 1082-0744

DOI - 10.1310/sci1803-212

Subject(s) - medicine , physical therapy , medical prescription , test (biology) , rating of perceived exertion , paraplegia , exertion , exercise prescription , intensity (physics) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychiatry , nursing , blood pressure , paleontology , heart rate , physics , quantum mechanics , spinal cord , biology

Physical activity recommendations require accurate estimations of exercise intensity. Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and talk test (TT) are 2 commonly recommended techniques to gauge intensity. It is not known whether these are valid to select an exercise intensity that would elicit a training effect for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI).

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