New Horizons in Sport for Athletes With a Disability

by Doll-Tepper, Gudrun; Kroner, Michael; Sonnenschein, Werner

• ISBN13: 9781841260372
• ISBN10: 1841260371
• 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
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 basketball	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 on 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 100m 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 behavior 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	(28)
Jill Le Clair
Conference Organization	483	(10)
Integration/Development/Recruitment
The forgotten athletes - a critical appraisal of IPC sports competition at world and Paralympic levels	493	(6)
Colin Rains
Strategic approaches to vertical integration and equity for athletes with disabilities: An examination of a critical factors model	499	(30)
Ted Fay
The integration and inclusion of world class disability sports programmes	529	(6)
David McCrae
Integration - the Canadian experience	535	(48)
Ray Allard
Rebeccah Bornemann
Paralympic and Olympic Games - separate or together	583	(16)
Harald von Selzam
Integration of athletes with a disability - the Alpine skiing model	599	(4)
Jack Benedick
Sport and rehabilitation: Patterns of initial and continuing participation in wheelchair basketball in the United Kingdom and Germany	603	(14)
Trevor Williams
Klaus Schule
Tarja Kolkka
Walter Hubach
High adventure outdoor recreation - the right to risk	617	(2)
Anne Morash Johnson
Equity issues in disability sport	619	(12)
Karen P. DePauw
Gender concerns in integration, development and recruitment of female athletes with a disability	631	(12)
Claudine Sherrill
Exploring the sporting lives of women with a physical disability	643	(12)
Heike Tiemann
Women working in sport for people with disabilities: Career paths and challenges	655	(14)
Mary A. Hums
Anita M. Moorman
Organization/Administration
The (dis?)organized chaos of sports for persons with disabilities	669	(30)
Hans Lindstrom
The international organization and structure for disability sport and the need to accelerate the development of the regions	699	(18)
Bob McCullough
CP-ISRA. Decades of development	717	(10)
Margret Kellner
Strategic initiatives of the IPC Sports Technical Department	727	(6)
Carol A. Mushett
Development and growth of Paralympic equestrian sport 1995-1999	733	(10)
Jonquil Solt
FIG development strategy for Paralympic status for gymnastics	743	(10)
Marie Fisher
The coordination of elite sport for athletes with disabilities in Australia	753	(8)
Jennifer Banks
Creative movement patterns of persons with a disability in freeball	761	(16)
Birol Cotuk
Yasar Tatar
Bilsen Sirmen
Selda Uzun
Improving the health and fitness of students and residents with complex learning disabilities	777	(14)
Robert Price
The use of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) as a model for integrated sport activities	791	(8)
Majed Abdul-Fattah
Making a difference: Using sport and recreation in the Guyana project for people with disabilities	799	(16)
Colins Higgs
Sporting with visual impairments. An initiative to develop sports activities for persons with visual impairments in Uganda	815	(10)
Nina Kahrs
Nayinda Sentumbwe
Research generation and information dissemination	825	(4)
Walter A. Thompson
Information technology: a solution for effective administration of sport for athletes with a disability	829	(22)
David Grevemberg
Christian Lillieroos
Media / Marketing / Sponsoring
Marketing sport for persons with a disability	851	(12)
Robert Wanzel
Hughues Gibeault
Angelo Tsarouhas
Perspectives of marketing and sponsoring in disability sport - a different approach	863	(14)
Reinhild Moller
Synopses	877	(62)
Conference Organization	939