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A social-historical perspective on the development of sports for persons with physical disability in Israel [PDF]

, 2009
The purpose of this essay is to describe the main developments within Israel of sports for persons with a disability across the 60 years of Israel's existence.
Bailey S., Bar-Or O., Bobath B., Huberman G., Hutzler Y., Hutzler Y., Hutzler Y., Ian Brittain, Lomi C., Lorenzen H., Norman T., Rashkes M., Scruton J., Shakespeare T. W., Steadward R. D., Sørensen M., Yeshayahu Hutzler   +16 more
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Corticospinal Excitability Is Modulated as a Function of Postural Perturbation Predictability

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018
Recent studies demonstrated that the corticospinal pathway is one of the key nodes for the feedback control of human standing and that the excitability is flexibly changed according to the current state of posture.
Kimiya Fujio, Kimiya Fujio, Hiroki Obata, Taku Kitamura, Noritaka Kawashima, Kimitaka Nakazawa   +5 more
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The potential influence of Cortisol and Testosterone on psychobiological aspects in Paralympic athletes

Apunts: Educación Física y Deportes, 2020
Paralympic sport is based on performance and requires the planning of physical, technical and psychological training. Factors such as structure, duration and intensity of specific training and disability type might influence hormone levels of blood-free ...
João Paulo-Pereira-Rosa, Andressa Silva, Dayane Ferreira-Rodrigues, Eduardo Stieler, Marco Tulio-de-Mello   +4 more
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Locomotor adaptation: Significance and underlying neural mechanisms

Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2015
Human locomotion is flexible in meeting the requirements of given environmental or task demands. Hence, in everyday life, we can walk, run, and skip in environmental surroundings that vary from hour to hour and even from second to second.
Tetsuya Ogawa, Noritaka Kawashima, Kimitaka Nakazawa   +2 more
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Examining Government Support for Disability Sports Development

Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies, 2023
Even though there have been many scientific articles that discuss people with disabilities in Indonesia, studies on government support for the development of special sports for people with disabilities are still few.
Teguh Kasiyanto
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Oscar Pistorius and the Future Nature of Olympic, Paralympic, and Other Sports [PDF]

, 2008
Oscar Pistorius is a Paralympic bionic leg runner and record holder in the 100, 200, and 400 meters who wants to compete in the Olympics. This paper provides an analysis of a) his case; b) the impact of his case on the Olympics, the Paralympics and other
Gregor Wolbring
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Formation of tolerance among rural youth to persons with disabilities based on Olympic values (on the example of the Special Olympics movement)

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2022
The difficulties that arise in the formation of tolerant relationships among the rural youth and people with disabilities on the basis of the municipality of the village of Ermolovka and the House of Culture of the Liskinsky district of the Voronezh ...
T. P. Begidova, N. A. Budanova
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Presetting of the Corticospinal Excitability in the Tibialis Anterior Muscle in Relation to Prediction of the Magnitude and Direction of Postural Perturbations

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
The prediction of upcoming perturbation modulates postural responses in the ankle muscles. The effects of this prediction on postural responses vary according to predictable factors.
Kimiya Fujio, Kimiya Fujio, Hiroki Obata, Noritaka Kawashima, Kimitaka Nakazawa   +4 more
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Impact of COVID-19 on physical and mental functioning in adolescents with disabilities in a sports nongovernmental organization [PDF]

Revista Paulista de Pediatria, 2022
Objective: This study aimed to assess physical and mental health, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) parameters in adolescents with physical disabilities enrolled in a sports nongovernmental organization (NGO) versus adolescents without ...
Moisés de Freitas Laurentino, Livia Lindoso, Camilla Astley, Sofia Simão Martins Lavorato, Bianca Pires Ihara, Dandara Carvalho Casado de Lima, Bruno Gualano, Lígia Bruni Queiroz, Rosa Maria Rodrigues Pereira, Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Clovis Artur Silva, Patricia Moreno Grangeiro   +12 more
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PREPARATION OF SWIMMING SPECIALISTS ACCORDING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF MODERN STANDARDS OF SPORT PREPARATION FOR WORK WITH CHILDREN WHO HAVE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2016
So much attention is paid to sports individuals with intellectual disabilities in international social practice due to at least two factors. Firstly, it is the huge potential of adaptive sport as area of rehabilitation, social integration and improvement
Mikhail Valerevich Budarin, Aleksander Yurevich Keyno   +1 more
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