New Horizons in Sport for Athletes With a Disability

by Doll-Tepper, Gudrun

• ISBN13: 9781841260365
• ISBN10: 1841260363
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport

Summary

This volume maps out the development perspectives of paralympic sport. Theecond edition of the International Paralympic Committee's VISTA Conferenceeries comprised 60 contributions by international experts. Held at theerman Sport University in Cologne, the event brought together scientists,oaches, athletes and administrators from over 40 countries who addressed allajor issues of paralympic sport - sport performance (including exercisehysiology, advances in training techniques, and technical developments inquipment and sport medicine); classification; integration/developmentecruitment; ethics; organization and administration; and media, marketingnd sponsoring. The result is a survey of the fast expanding field of sportor athletes with a disability.

Table of Contents

Prefaces	xv
Introduction	xix
Volume I
Sport Performance-Exercise Physiology
Bridging the gap between research and practice in Paralympic sport	5	(22)
Yagesh Bhambhani
Glucose, insulin, cortisol and catecholamines in trained and untrained spinal cord injured persons at rest and during exercise	27	(12)
Andreas Schmid
Importance of maximal aerobic power in wheelchair basket-ball	39	(14)
Marco Bernardi
Annalisa di Cesare
Piera Marchettoni
Laura Amoni
Antonella Maccallini
Cristiano Olmeda
Filippo M. Quattrini
Marco Marchetti
Performance and health assessment in quad rugby	53	(8)
Thomas Abel
Petra Platen
Christiane Peters
The influence of exercise of the immune system in athletes with a spinal cord injury	61	(12)
Christiane Peters
Helmut Lotzerich
Thorsten Schulz
Christian Mucha
Horst Michna
Sport Performance-Advances in Training Techniques
Training and Performance	73	(8)
Karl Quade
Athletes doing it for themselves: Self-coaching guidelines for elite athletes	81	(16)
Trish Bradbury
Race analysis of Paralympic swimmers: Information for coaches and implications for classification	97	(14)
Daniel Daly
Laurie A. Malone
Yves Vanlandewijck
Robert D. Steadward
Video-feedback control in training elite physically disabled swimmers: Changes in individual swimming techniques and their optimization processes	111	(10)
Timar Heine
Jurgen Innenmoser
Kinematic analysis of the 100 m sprint start of ice sledge racing at the 1998 Winter Paralympic Games in Nagano	121	(6)
Kyonosuke Yabe
Yasuo Ikegami
Shinji Sakurai
Hiroyuki Nunome
Wataru Doyo
Toru Terashima
Variability characteristics of motion sequences in racing wheelchair propulsion-identification of active arm, shoulder and back muscles and their relationship to data of a corresponding motor analysis system	127	(14)
Simone Zimmermann
Jurgen Innenmoser
A marathon training program for hand cyclists	141	(14)
Bettina Schaar
Klaus Kneile
Michael Kroner
Petra Platen
Biathlon for the disabled-aspects of efficiency and trends	155	(16)
Thomas Friedrich
Klaus Schule
Sport Performance-Technical Developments/Equipment
Wheelchair and performance	171	(8)
Kees van Breukelen
Wheelchair sport performance-some recent research developments: Alternative modes of ambulation	179	(26)
Lucas H.V. van der Woude
Annet J. Dallmeijer
Thomas W.J. Janssen
Dirkjan Veeger
Understanding handrim wheelchair propulsion	205	(16)
Yves Vanlandewijck
Arthur Spaepen
Daniel Daly
Daniel Theisen
Instrumentation for recording wheelchair performance	221	(6)
Rory Cooper
David P. VanSickle
Michael L. Boninger
Ariadne, an innovative track guide to enable blind athletes to move independently along a racetrack	227	(8)
Ewald Forner
Jorg Primsch
Is it feasible to use an everyday above-knee prosthesis in mass sport? A motion analysis	235	(10)
Christiane Bohn
G. Shan
R. Attermeyer
K. Nicol
Breaking down the barriers	245	(12)
Bob Tinker
Sport Performance-Sports Medicine
Injuries to athletes with a disability: The state of the art	257	(10)
Michael Ferrara
Boosting in Paralympic sport-some ethical considerations	267	(6)
Michael Riding
Doping-a Paralympic perspective	273	(8)
Michael Riding
Classification
Implications of sports classification systems for persons with disabilities and consequences for science and research	281	(22)
Horst Strohkendl
The classification of the elite athlete in disability sport-an athlete's,, holistic`` perspective	303	(16)
Norma Lorincz
Results of motor behaviour oriented research projects in track and field and in swimming-do they give adequate answers to some of the problems in classification	319	(30)
Jurgen Innenmoser
Classifying track athletes with and without damage to the sympathetic nervous system	349	(6)
Christian Brunner
H. Mattes
G. Zach
In search of objective criteria in wheelchair basketball player classification	355	(14)
Bartosz Molik
Andrzej Kosmol
People with a mental disability in sports-an approach to the current considerations about eligibility in Germany	369	(10)
Lutz Worms
Organization and administration of the classification process for the Paralympics	379	(16)
Ronald W. Davis
Ethics
Ethical issues in the Paralympics-what is right and what is fair?	395	(6)
York Chow
Ethical relativism in able-bodied sports: Implications and directions for the Paralympic Movement	401	(34)
Garry D. Wheeler
Institutional responsibilities and the athlete in transition: What happens to athletes with a disability when they retire and what responsibilities do we have with regard to the athlete during and after transition from elite sport?	435	(30)
Garry D. Wheeler
High performance swimming: Equity or political correctness	465	(18)
Jill Le Clair
Conference Organization	483