Effect of Sport on People With Disabilities?
Question by liquid: Effect of sport on people with disabilities?
does anyone know of a research or study done on the effect of sport on people with disabilities? anything such as improvements in lifestyle, motivation, education, confidence, etc… is good.
I need this for a research paper. Looked everywhere but was not able to find anything.
Thanks in advance.
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Answer by jobees
sport is good for anyone as fitter you are the less chance of heart attack etc…
Depending on the type of disability they have
Hart walker are a walk that enable some children who can walk with support to walk hands free. It improves blood circulation. Mostly used by children with cerebral palsy.
http://www.cp855.com/TechnologyNews/HarrisonWalkingAir20070731.shtml
Swimming can be good giving chance to exercise muscle that they can’t in their chair.
also look up special Olympic (intellectual disability) and Paralympic athletes with physical and visual disabilies.
The joy of winning been part of a team. Feeling normal
A true story (from walk a crooked mile)
Having C.P he swam in the special olympic (even those it is for intellectual disability not phyiscal. It would be an amazing effort for him to swim 25m. He started in the water the others dive in. He finished 3rd. When it came time to give the medals instead of giving brozens he was reward gold.
He was not happy for been award the gold medal.
2000 Paralympic game moments
Another effect is dragging your guide runner whos hold you up from breaking the world record.
A sore head from touching the pool wall with head.
Answer by chiliswoman
Sorry, but you must not know how to do research very well. There is a TON of information on this topic on the net. There are journals and conferences dedicated to this topic. There is one at Ohio State University every year in April.
I found these immediately –
Center for Recreation and Leisure http://www.unc.edu/depts/recreate/crds/
Sports Medicine/ Disability Research
http://www.hhs.oregonstate.edu/nes/research/sports-medicine.html
Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sses/institutes/phc/
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