Ischaemic Preconditioning and Upper Body Exercise Performance in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

About this trial

This trial is enrolling 40 individuals with chronic spinal cord injury to test feasibility and effect of a circulatory manipulation technique that alternately reduces blood flow and then allows normal blood flow (ischemic preconditioning - IPC) on upper limb exercise performance. IPC uses a blood pressure cuff on the arm , repeatedly inflated and deflated. If included, participants will be randomly assigned to receive either: four cycles of IPC (5 min cuff inflation followed by a 5 min period of cuff deflation); or sham intervention. Final testing of upper limb exercise performance will be performed after 40 minutes.