Table 1.
Participants independent baseline variables.
| Participant Code | Diagnosis of the Child | Age (Years) |
Sex | Height (cm) | Weight (kg) | Time Since Began Aquatic Therapy (Months) |
Vignos Scale | Mechanical Ventilation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | DMD | 18 | M | 157 | 61 | 48 | 7 | Does not require |
| S2 | Congenital myopathy | 7 | M | 129 | 23 | 18 | 2 | Does not require |
| S3 | NMD non hereditary | 10 | M | 142 | 32 | 18 | 1 | Does not require |
| S4 | SMA type II | 5 | M | 115 | 17 | 24 | 9 | Nocturnal BiPAP |
| S5 | SMA type II | 4 | M | 100 | 15.6 | 15 | 9 | Nocturnal BiPAP |
| S6 | SMA type III | 5 | F | 107 | 15 | 20 | 2 | Does not require |
| S7 | DMD | 11 | M | 146 | 63 | 21 | 9 | Does not require |
| S8 | SMA type II | 4 | F | 98 | 12 | 18 | 8 | Does not require |
| S9 | CMT | 5 | F | 119 | 20 | 24 | 3 | Does not require |
| S10 | CMT | 12 | F | 150 | 45 | 24 | 7 | Does not require |
| S11 | Steinert myotonic dystrophy | 11 | F | 152 | 40 | 6 | 1 | Does not require |
DMD—Duchenne muscular dystrophy; NMD—neuromuscular disorder; SMA—spinal muscular atrophy; CMT—Charcot–Marie-Tooth; BiPAP—bilevel positive airway pressure.