Advantages Of Adapted Sports

Dating back to the B.C, small sports were created for people to have some sort of entertainment and a way to avoid the problems people were facing. These sports were then put into the greek olympics where people competed in different categories and their goals were to amuse the audience and showcase their skills. This is what inspired the concept of sports and since then sports have become one of the most talked about topics and continues to be used for strength and amusement. Doing sports was a way to face fears and overcome difficulties. In fact, sports were what got people through the most difficult times each country has battled. The whole purpose of a sport was to serve as a distraction from reality, but times have changed. Sports have developed into a major justification for the amount of people getting diagnosed with a mental disease. Sports take away the time and energy an average person needs to live healthy and happy. The newer generations don’t realize how sports can have a large effect on a person.

to be eligible to play Wheelchair Rugby, individuals must have a disability which affects the arms and legs. Most players have spinal cord injuries with full or partial paralysis of the legs and partial paralysis of the arms. Other disability groups who play include cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, amputations, polio, and other neurological conditions. Men and women compete on the same teams and in the same competitions. Players are assigned a sport classification based on their level of disability; teams must field players with a mix of classification values, allowing players with different functional abilities to compete together.

With improper equipment, you can easily get hurt in aggressive sports. Did you know that playing tennis with a badly strung racquet, while wearing worn-out shoes can increase your risk of injury? Almost as much as playing football

As sports sign-ups sneak up every year, many parents find themselves wondering, how many sports should my young child be playing? Sports specialization is defined as “intense, year round training in a single sport with the exclusion of other sports” (Jayanthi). This concept of devoting one’s career to a single sport from a very young age in order to reach higher physical success in the long run has always been around, but recently it has been drawing an increasing amount of attention. The media places great emphasis on athletics as a whole, which for some, means working towards a luring Division One collegiate scholarship. Others are driven by the miniscule possibility of playing at the professional level. More often than not, this results in unnecessary stress and heartbreak (Committee on Sports). Along with the psychological disadvantages of specializing in only one sport, young athletes are oftentimes the victims of overtraining, overuse injuries, and other negative effects on the growing body (Jayanthi). Sports specialization is not beneficial to young children and poses multiple potential risks to the mind and body.

Athletics offer so much more than just improving hand eye coordination and keeping children fit. Harvard graduate, Paul Caccamo, explains that “sports are more than a game; they are a set of life lessons. Kids growing up without them are really disadvantaged”

I would have the participants weave in-and-out of the cones, from one end of the court to the other. To finish, after weaving through the cones, I would have them race back down the court at the fastest rate of speed possible, in order to simulate a “break-away” scenario. Each athlete would complete this exercise five times in order to continue warming up their muscles, and become comfortable handling their wheelchair. The key aspect that I would identify would be the positioning of the athletes hands on the wheels of the chair, pushing from a 12 o’clock position to 3 o’clock (envision a clock), maximizing their speed and thrust.

Analysing the effects, recovery and prevention assist in determining the extent of what the injury does to individuals participating in the popular well-known sport.

Body paragraph 1: No one can be competitive or better than someone else. According to the text, “They weren't really very good no better than anyone else would have been.” This shows that there is no competitive behavior. Therefore, there is no fun in sports because everyone has the same talent or amount of skill. Having a handicap takes the enjoyment out of playing and out of watching. There is no point in even dancing or participating in any physical activity if you can't show your full

A sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill, in which a person or a team competes against others for entertainment. There are over 8,000 sports that are played worldwide. From ping-pong, to ice hockey, from football, to basketball, to bobsledding, to soccer. All of these are considered sports-- Even ping pong and golf. However, there’s one sport in particular, that can in some cases be just as physically exhausting and complicated as the others.

Wheelchair technology has greatly advanced through the years. Like St. Germaine, paraplegics can do about any sport! Tennis, football, and basketball are just a few of the games that can be played from specially-designed wheelchairs. There are certain features that make these sport chairs possible.

This semester, I completed my service hours with the Special Olympics where I kept score and ran the scoreboard for basketball games. The most important thing I learned from the articles I found was that athletics play important roles in people's lives. Athletics help build self-esteem and promote physical and mental health. Special Olympics connects with the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes because helping the disabled athletes is doing God’s work through including people into the sports community who normally discluded from life in general. I’ve had some life changing experiences through sports like when Nate Trevino ran a football for a touchdown at my freshman football game. Moments like those where people allow disabled athletes to

Disability sports, also known as adaptive sports or parasports, are sports that are strictly for those with disabilities, whether it be physical or mental. These sports were originally used as a means to rehabilitate veterans (Disabled Sports USA); the organization in particular that I am going to focus on is the Lakeshore Foundation.

The Special Olympics are helping millions around the globe figure out what they’re capable of. Thomas Carlyle once said, “Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.” The athletes that wish to participate in this program are wanting to become more successful and assured. All their life, it has been hard for them to overlook their disabilities. Now, they are able to see past what others would

Have you ever heard of Goalball? It is not a new sport. It has been in the Paralympics since 1976. The Paralympics are Olympics for disabled athletes. Many athletes have enjoyed playing goalball.

As a consequence of the accumulation of stresses being placed on the joints in the upper extremity of wheelchair athletes during tasks of competition, training and day to day life, the upper limbs and in particular the shoulder appear commonly injured.(Churton & Keogh, 2013). Churton and Keogh (2013) determined through the use of electromyography (EMG) that in the majority of activities undertaken by wheelchair users, the shoulder girdle is the primary source of power. The shoulder is not structured suitably for repetitive loading, rather it is