In the last decade, the craving amongst amputees for participation in sports culminated in development of stronger, lighter weight prosthesis that made lower limb amputees to accomplish high physical demands and to return near to their premorbid functional level. (juniperpublishers.com)
Spinal cord inj2
Classification for spinal cord injuries and wheelchair sport is overseen by International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS). (wikipedia.org)
Classification for spinal cord injuries internationally is also handled on a sport specific basis, with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) being the classifier for a number of sports including alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, ice sledge hockey, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, and wheelchair dance. (wikipedia.org)
Disability3
Wheelchair sport classification is a system designed to allow fair competition between people of different disabilities, and minimize the impact of a person's specific disability on the outcome of a competition. (wikipedia.org)
In wheelchair fencing, the purpose of classification is to insure that fencers are classified based on equitable functional mobility so that their training, skill level, talent and experience determine the outcome of a match, not their disability type. (wikipedia.org)
Paralympics welcomes athletes from six main disability categories: amputee, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, visually impaired, spinal injuries and Les Autres (French for "the others", a category that includes conditions that do not fall into the categories mentioned above). (disabilityinfosa.co.za)
Functional4
Changes towards a functional classification system started in some sports in the late 1970s and 1980s before going wider in the early 1990s. (wikipedia.org)
In wheelchair rugby, the purpose of classification is to give structure to the sport by minimizing the impact of different levels of functional disabilities on the court as it pertains to the outcome of the game. (wikipedia.org)
The ultimate desire of amputees to partake in high activity sports led to the development of sports specific prosthesis with greater functional advantage over nonspecific ones. (juniperpublishers.com)
Disabilities3
The purpose of classification in wheelchair sports is to allow fair competition between people with different types of disabilities. (wikipedia.org)
Classification based on disabilities is at times comparable to classification systems used in other sports based on weight, age and gender in regards to its purpose as these potentially impact results. (wikipedia.org)
Wheelchair sport classification includes a number of disabilities that cause problems with the spinal cord. (wikipedia.org)
Physical4
Lack of physical activity increases the risk of many medical problems including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and poor bone quality. (disabilityinfosa.co.za)
The amputees in general have poor physical health because of the two, surgical procedure itself and the medical condition for which it was performed [4]. (juniperpublishers.com)
The participation in sports and exercise not only maintain the physical health and psychological wellbeing of amputees but also enhance confidence and coping behavior. (juniperpublishers.com)
While the goal of rehabilitation in athlete amputees is to foster rapid return to selected sports, the goals in non-athletic amputees could be either just rapid recovery of daily activities or to engage them in recreational activities and sports so as to enhance the rapid recovery of their physical as well as mental fitness [6]. (juniperpublishers.com)
Sports3
Traditionally, the classes used for IWAS have been based on track and field with these being applied for other sports. (wikipedia.org)
With better counselling and rehabilitation of amputees, the number of individuals with limb amputations is increasing and more of them are recruited to participate in a wide range of activities including recreational sports. (juniperpublishers.com)
Man's determination to do better has transformed the function of lower limb prosthesis from restoring daily life activities to tremendous performance of athletic amputees in competitive sports close to their non-disabled counterparts. (juniperpublishers.com)
Middle-class2
He clearly wants to classify all sexual desires outside the norm of middle-class WASP America as a disorder. (crossdreamers.com)
His works powerfully portrayed the lives and struggles of the urban middle class. (pdfkul.com)
Ludwig Guttmann1
Wheelchair sport classification was first experimented with by Ludwig Guttmann at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital during the 1940s, and was formalized in the 1950s. (wikipedia.org)
Early2
Changes towards a functional classification system started in some sports in the late 1970s and 1980s before going wider in the early 1990s. (wikipedia.org)
Forty-five-year-old Thomas Myles Dougherty, a WWII double amputee fitted with prosthetic metal "hooks" on both arms, disappeared on January 12, 1961, after an early morning breakfast at the Metropolitan Café in Sioux City, Iowa. (iowacoldcases.org)
Sport5
Classification for spinal cord injuries and wheelchair sport is overseen by International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS). (wikipedia.org)
Classification for spinal cord injuries internationally is also handled on a sport specific basis, with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) being the classifier for a number of sports including alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, ice sledge hockey, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, and wheelchair dance. (wikipedia.org)
Classification is also handled nationally by national wheelchair sport organizations, or sport specific organizations. (wikipedia.org)
They are comparable to sport specific classes used by other classifying bodies. (wikipedia.org)
[4] These categories are further broken down into classifications, which vary from sport to sport. (casplantje.nl)