Physical activity and sedentary behavior in people with spinal cord injury: Mitigation strategies during COVID-19 on behalf of ACSM-EIM and HL-PIVOT.
Lauren C Bates, Ryan Conners, Gabriel Zieff, Nathan T Adams, Kyle M Edgar, Sandra Stevens, Mark A Faghy, Ross Arena, Amber Vermeesch, Rodney P Joseph, NiCole Keith, Lee Stoner
PMID 34330682WHAT IT FOUND
Expert recommendations for promoting movement and reducing sitting time in people with spinal cord injury during the pandemic.
These strategies cover individual, social, physical, and policy levels but are not tested interventions.
What this paper is
This is a commentary offering mitigation strategies for physical activity and sedentary behavior in people with spinal cord injury during the pandemic. It proposes recommendations based on existing literature and expert opinion but reports no new methods, participants, or results. There is no finding here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat these recommendations as evidence that specific interventions work. The paper proposes strategies based on expert opinion and prior literature but reports no new data testing their effectiveness.