Table 1.

PICOS (participants, interventions/exposure, comparison, outcomes, study design).

PICOS components	Detail
Participants	Humans with a spinal cord injury able (classification-wise) to participate in Paralympic wheelchair sports
Interventions/Exposure	Exercise in normal or hot conditions
Comparison	Able-bodied vs. para-/tetraplegic, paraplegic vs. tetraplegic, cooling vs. non-cooling, acclimation/acclimatization vs. non-acclimation, descriptive
Outcomes	Performance, thermoregulatory responses
Study designs	RTCs, nRCTs and nRnCTs

RTCs, randomized controlled trials; nRCTs, non-randomized controlled trials; nRnCTs, non-randomized non-controlled trials.