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Competing with greater impairment: age distribution and competitive outcomes in Paralympic athletes with high support needs

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
This study examined the age distribution of Paralympic athletes with high support needs at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, analyzing differences according to sex, competitive achievement, and discipline.
Rafael Lima Kons, Luiz Gustavo T. Santos, Gennaro Apollaro, Marilia Passos Magno e Silva, João Paulo Casteleti de Souza, María Isabel Cornejo, María Isabel Cornejo, Lorenzo Rum, Matías Henríquez   +8 more
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Effect of concurrent training in unilateral transtibial amputees using Paralympic athletes as a control group. [PDF]

Clinics (Sao Paulo), 2023
Grecco MV, Brech GC, Soares-Junior JM, Baracat EC, Greve JMD, Silva PRS.   +5 more
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Competing Models of Disability: Medicalization’s Ambivalent Effects on the Paralympic Movement

Socius
Disability is predominantly understood as a medical problem. Since the 1980s, disability scholars have critiqued the medicalization of disability to illuminate disability’s social and political dimensions.
Evan T. Baughman
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Perspectives on mental health and well-being Voices of Swiss Paralympic athletes

Sports Psychiatry
: Introduction: The aim of this study is to provide an overview of Paralympic athletes’ views on mental health in a competitive sport context. Although research in the field of Paralympic sport has increased exponentially over the last two decades ...
Lucas Lüdi, Georg Pfarrwaller, Christian Imboden, Olivia Stoffel, Matthias Schlüssel, Andreas Heiniger, Birgit Kleim, Nikolai Kiselev   +7 more
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Studies of adaptation to hypoxic-hyperoxic stress in paralympic athletes: a comparative randomized study

Вестник восстановительной медицины
INTRODUCTION. The present publication examines the effects of interval hypoxic-hyperoxic training, implemented in rehabilitation programmes for Paralympic athletes with musculoskeletal disorders.
Victor V. Gorelik, Svetlana N. Filippova, Oleg S. Smentyna, Liliana S. Revchuk, Yana V. Davydova   +4 more
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Prehospital management of exertional heat stroke at sports competitions for Paralympic athletes. [PDF]

Br J Sports Med, 2022
Hosokawa Y, Adami PE, Stephenson BT, Blauwet C, Bermon S, Webborn N, Racinais S, Derman W, Goosey-Tolfrey VL.   +8 more
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COVID-19 Test Before Tokyo2020 Paralympic Games: An Implemented Protocol to Protect Paralympic Athletes. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living, 2022
Muti GE, Muti-Schuenemann G, Pimpinelli F, Spataro A, Fiore A, Ciasullo F, Olivieri D, Rigoni M, Delbue S, Pariani E, Muzi F, Donzelli S, Strano S, Morrone A, Blandino G, Muti P.   +15 more
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Anthropometry, body composition, and athletic performance in specific field tests in Paralympic athletes with different disabilities. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2022
Cherif M, Said MA, Bannour K, Alhumaid MM, Chaifa MB, Khammassi M, Aouidet A.   +6 more
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Mental Health in German Paralympic Athletes During the 1st Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Compared to a General Population Sample. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living, 2022
Busch A, Kubosch EJ, Bendau A, Leonhart R, Meidl V, Bretthauer B, Petzold MB, Dallmann P, Wrobel N, Plag J, Ströhle A, Hirschmüller A.   +11 more
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Effects of COVID-19 Home Confinement on Behavior, Perception of Threat, Stress and Training Patterns of Olympic and Paralympic Athletes. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021
Martínez-Patiño MJ, Blas Lopez FJ, Dubois M, Vilain E, Fuentes-García JP.   +4 more
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