Informing Future Paralympic Media Approaches: The Perspective of Canadian Paralympic Athletes [PDF]
Communication and Sport, 2022 Media coverage of the Paralympic Games can affect how athletes with impairment and disability sport are perceived by the public. Researchers investigating media representations of disability sport have focused on how Paralympic athletes and disability sport are represented by the media.
Erin Pearson, Laura Misener
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The influence of sports on paralympic athletes’ personal development
Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2018 One of the most effective ways of integrating people with disabilities into society and ensuring their comprehensive personal development is to engage people with disabilities into Paralympic Games.
Oleg M. Kokun +2 more
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Beyond the logo: Sanitas' experience in advancing inclusive sports mindset through Paralympic sponsorship [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingIntroductionSponsorship is an essential element of the sports ecosystem, enabling powerful and authentic engagement between brands, athletes, and teams.
Olga Kolotouchkina +4 more
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Predictive Factors of Mental Health in Athletes from the Paralympic Preparation Program During Social Isolation: The Role of Sleep, Competitive Status, and Motivation [PDF]
SportsBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges for elite athletes, disrupting training routines and affecting mental health. This study examined the impact of social isolation on training, sleep, motivation, and psychological well-being
Eduarda Coelho +4 more
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Electroceuticals for Paralympic Athletes: A Fair Play and Classification Concern? [PDF]
Sports MedAbstract Electroceuticals such as brain computer interfaces and spinal cord stimulation (SCS) represent transformative strategies for neuromodulation. Research has demonstrated that SCS can ameliorate motor and autonomic cardiovascular dysfunctions, particularly in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Notably, SCS has been shown
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Psychometric Evidence of the Coping Inventory for Brazilian Paralympic Athletes in Competition Situations [PDF]
Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), 2022 Paralympic athletes face stressful situations in sports competitions daily, and assessing how they cope with these situations is important. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Coping Inventory for Brazilian Paralympic Athletes
Rafaela Bertoldi +5 more
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Factors Influencing the Training Process of Paralympic Women Athletes
Sports, 2023 (1) Background: Paralympic women athletes in their training process go through a series of interrelated stages which are parallel to their evolutionary development, during which a wide variety of psychological, social, and biological factors will have an
Manuel Rodríguez Macías +2 more
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Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin, 2021 Problem: In-competition injury and illness incidences in Paralympic athletes have been studied extensively during the last decade. However, longitudinal monitoring data is still lacking.
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Emotional regulation as factor of commitment to paralympic sports
European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction Commitment to sports is especially important for well-being in people with disabilities (Malm et al., 2019), although mental health problems are common among Paralympic athletes (Hunt et al., 2019).
A. Yavorovskaya +4 more
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Imagery: a study on paralympic athletes. [PDF]
BMC Sports Sci Med RehabilTopuzoğlu E, Orhan Ö, Kaplan Ö.
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