Keywords: wheelchair racing; sports injuries; overuse Introduction An increasing number of people with disabilities are participating in sport.1,2 Whilst athletes with disabilities may not be injured any more often than able bodied athletes,3 the types of injuries they sustain may be specific to ...
September 12, 2022Articles,Features,Images Palestinian athletes with disabilities take part in the first rowing championship on Medina Beach in Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle) ByPalestine Chronicle Staff On Sunday, September 11, the Palestinian Sailing and Rowing Federation ...
S. (2019). Comparison of resilience and self-efficacy in athletes and non- athletes with disabilities caused by spinal cord injury. Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, 25(2), 150–163. https://doi.org/10.32598/ijpcp.25.2.150 Dissanayake, D. ...
Nutritional knowledge and attitudes in athletes with physical disabilities. J Athl Train. 2007;42(1):99–105. PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Patton-Lopez MM, Manore MM, Branscum A, Meng Y, Wong SS. Changes in sport nutrition knowledge, attitudes/beliefs and behaviors following a two-...
There are now more opportunities than ever for athletes with disabilities. Check out Kidzworlds look at the wheelchair sports, the Paralympics and other opportunities for disabled athletes.
Following researchers who have approached normativity and compulsory able-bodiedness in the light of hegemony and sub-hegemony, the current study explores whether sports media are sluggish when presenting athletes with disabilities, or if the picture is a more nuanced one. The context studied was ...
(AME), which has been associated with both sporting success and positive emotions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore if AME in athletes can mediate this directly observed relationship between performance and psychological well-being. For stronger predictive validity these relationships ...
In addition, all ECPs and optometry students who screened athletes at the USA Games received a clinical training to better understand how to meet the unique needs of people with intellectual disabilities—not only at the USA Games, but back home at their optometry practices. ...
Effects on neuromuscular training on children and young adults with Down syndrome: Systematic review and meta-analysis Research in Developmental Disabilities, 55 (2016), pp. 197-206 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar Takatori et al., 2016 K. Takatori, D. Matsumoto, M. Nishida, S. Matsushita, T. ...
“For me it is clear that all competitors for the Paralympic Games are acknowledged as athletes in their own right, not for their disabilities,” he said. Heinrich, who had once dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, said it had taken time to learn how to run fast with a prosthe...