Wheelchair rugby originated in 1977 in Canada, as a sport for athletes with tetraplegia
(quadriplegia).The game has grown into an intense physical team sport for both female
and male with a variety of disabilities involving all four limbs. Athletes are systematically
grouped into sport classes according to their ability to move and perform basic functional
skills in their specific sport. This allows for fairness. Cerebral palsy (CP) players joined
the wheelchair rugby. Because the CPâs disability lies on a total different level,
classifiers find it difficult to classify them correctly.
The aim of the study as to explore whether the present classification system
disadvantages the CP wheelchair rugby players.
An explorative descriptive research design was used. Data was gathered by the use of
the nominal group technique. The research took place at the 2005 International
Wheelchair Amputee Sport championships in Brazil. Seven specialists in the field of
wheelchair rugby participated in the study.
The findings of the study and the conclusion reached indicated that there is a definite
need for a different and more functional approach to bench testing cerebral palsy
wheelchair rugby players. A new bench test format should be developed and could then
be suggested to the International Wheelchair Rugby Federation for possible future
inclusion in the classification manual.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ufs/oai:etd.uovs.ac.za:etd-08102007-133111 |
| Date | 10 August 2007 |
| Creators | Malan, Hetta |
| Contributors | Mrs L de Man, Mrs L Grobler |
| Publisher | University of the Free State |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en-uk |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-08102007-133111/restricted/ |
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