Table of Contents
- Dr. Bob Segalman, President & Founder, Speech-to-Speech
- Wheelchair Football Training Video
- Growth of Paralympics Helps Change the World's View of Disability
- The Magnificence of Tennis
- The Best Sporting Event I’ve Attended
- Use of Low Compression Balls in Wheelchair Tennis
- Program Spotlight: 29th Annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games
- Sit Volleyball
- Table Tennis
- Wheelchair Basketball
- Fitness for Individuals who are Visually Impaired, Blind, and Deafblind
- Volleyball
- New Food Pyramid Misses Mark for People with Disabilities
- Paralympic Powerlifting Demonstration
- Response to Last Month's Column on Use of Power Mobility Devices
- FreeWheeling in my Wheelchair!
- Rise in Scooters and Power Wheelchairs Could Increase Risk of Obesity
- Sports for Children and Youth with Disabilities
- Guidelines for Trainers with Clients with Visual Impairments
- Wheelchair Softball
- Community Voice: A Circuit Training Program for People with Visual Impairments
- Lead your Clients into an Amazing 2008!
- Football (American)
- Wheelchair Tennis
- Physical activity and motor skills in children with and without visual impairments
- Basketball
- Spirit and Success in Motion: A Celebration of Sports and Life Achievement of People with Disabilities
- Exerstrider Fitness for People Who Use Wheelchairs
- Paralympic Athletes Have a Role to Play when the Games End
- Young Athletes with Disabilities Grow Into Healthy Adults
- Wheelchair skills training for community-based manual wheelchair users: A randomized controlled trial
- Community Voice: The Importance of Mentoring - An Interview with Jean Driscoll
- Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Use of Assistive Technology to Reduce Pain for Manual Wheelchair Users
- The Paralympics
- Russian Paralympians Outperform Their Olympic Counterparts and Draw Attention to Disability Issues
- Comparison of cardiovascular adaptations to long-term arm and leg exercise in wheelchair athletes versus long-distance runners.
- Spotlight on Mary Allison Milford - U.S. Paralympic Athlete
Paralympics
Introduction to Paralympics
The first organized disabled sports games were held in 1948 in Stoke Mandeville, England. Sir Ludwig Guttmann invited World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries to participate in these games. What started in England soon became an international event.
Today, the Paralympic Games are held the same year as the Olympic Games and take place in the same city. The Paralympic Games offer elite sporting events for athletes from six disability groups. Like the Olympics, the Paralympics have both summer and winter games. There are 18 Paralympic summer sports and three Paralympic winter sports.
National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability
