Calidad de vida y grado de discapacidad de los deportistas con lesión medular pertenecientes a los deportes individuales de la selección valle en el año 2018

Abstract

The Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is defined as a pathological process that leads to a neurological deficit producing alterations of the motor, sensitive and autonomous function, with long-term effects that persist for a lifetime. In people with this injury, the quality of life and the degree of disability is quite prevalent because its functionality and independence are compromised on various activities that used to be done autonomously. The objective of this research is to determine the Quality of Life and the grade of Disability of a group of athletes with Spinal Cord Injury belonging to the individual sports of the Valle Selection in 2018. The present investigation is a descriptive cross-sectional study, which it will allow to detail the information that is obtained in a single moment and without following up, collecting the data in a natural way with a quantitative approach. There was the participation of 25 people, with a diagnosis of chronic spinal cord injury, of legal age, of both sexes, who belonged to the valley league of limited physicists. The following assessment instruments were used: the health-related quality of life questionnaire SF - 12, and SCI - DAS (Spinal Cord lnjury – Disability Assessment Scale) for the degree of disability. It is concluded that the instruments used during the investigation allowed to reach the proposed objectives for the study, noting that the majority of athletes with chronic spinal cord injury present a good quality of life which is not subject to both their physical health condition and their pathology, but yes to mental health, to the emotional and social role. Regarding the degree of disability, it is evident that most of the athletes have a slight disability, which indicates that these people can achieve their functional independence with the passage of time according to the conditions in which they find themselves to succeed, overcoming obstacles and facing different situations with a positive attitude towards life and taking sports as a tool for rehabilitation and social inclusion.