How Can Biomechanics Improve Physical Preparation and Performance in Paralympic Athletes? A Narrative Review by Jared R. Fletcher, Tessa Gallinger, Francois Prince

“…Recent research in Paralympic biomechanics has offered opportunities for coaches, athletes, and sports practitioners to optimize training and performance, and recent systematic reviews have served to summarize the state of the evidence connecting biomechanics to Paralympic performance. …”
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Injuries and illness of athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic summer games visiting outside facilities by Shuji Sakanashi, Hideharu Tanaka, Hiroyuki Yokota, Yasuhiro Otomo, Tomohiko Masuno, Kousuke Nakano, Junichi Inoue, Manabu Sugita, Takahiko Tokunaga, Nagisa Kato, Tomoya Kinoshi, Hironori Inoue, Hiroto Numata, Koshi Nakagawa, Ryo Sagisaka, Shota Tanaka, Tetsuya Miyamoto, Takao Akama

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Psychological status of medical security teams in Winter Olympic Games and Paralympics under COVID-19 by Xiaoyu Zhu, Yu Zhu, Zhiwei Qi, Ran Li, Yunlong Tan, Zhongwei Yang

“…BackgroundMedical security work for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympics faced enormous challenges under COVID-19. …”
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Health preparedness plan for dengue detection during the 2020 summer Olympic and Paralympic games in Tokyo. by Naoki Yanagisawa, Koji Wada, John D Spengler, Ramon Sanchez-Pina

“…CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE:Our findings may facilitate physicians and public health officials where new controls would be beneficial for the 2020 summer Olympics and Paralympics. The FMEA framework has the potential to be applied to other infectious diseases, not just dengue.…”
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Can home-based training influence mood states and quality of life in Paralympic boccia athletes? by Sidcley Felix Arruda, José Igor Vasconcelos de Oliveira, Ciro Winckler, André Santos Costa, Pedro Pinheiro Paes Neto, Mário Antônio Moura Simim, Saulo Fernandes Melo Oliveira

Subjects: “…Paralympic sport…”
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Cross-Border Transmissions of the Delta Substrain AY.29 During Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games by Takahiko Koyama, Reitaro Tokumasu, Kotoe Katayama, Ayumu Saito, Michiharu Kudo, Seiya Imoto, Seiya Imoto

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Association of The Healthy Eating Index and Body Composition Among Iran’s Paralympic Athletes with Hemodialysis and Hemophilia by Thaer Easa Murad AL-Rubaye

“…Objective: To determine the association between the healthy eating index (HEI) and body composition among Iran’s Paralympic athletes with hemodialysis and hemophilia. …”
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Designing advertising awareness campaigns to change the attitude towards people of determination “Paralympics as a model” by Aliaa Turafy

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Differences in game statistics between winning and losing for male wheelchair tennis players in Paralympics Games by Alejandro Sánchez-Pay, Gema Torres-Luque, Ángel Iván Fernandéz-Garcia, Davi Sanz-Rivas, José Manuel Palao Andrés

“…Methods Data were collected from the 139 sets of 64 matches played by 64 males' players in the 2012 Paralympics Games. The variables studied were grouped in four groups: variables related to serve, to return, to winners and errors, and to net point. …”
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Inclusion through Sport: A Critical View on Paralympic Legacy from a Historical Perspective by Sylvain Ferez, Sébastien Ruffié, Hélène Joncheray, Anne Marcellini, Sakis Pappous, Rémi Richard

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Examination of gas exchange and blood lactate thresholds in Paralympic athletes during upper-body poling. by Julia Kathrin Baumgart, Maaike Moes, Knut Skovereng, Gertjan Ettema, Øyvind Sandbakk

“…OBJECTIVES:The primary aim was to compare physiological and perceptual outcome parameters identified at common gas exchange and blood lactate (BLa) thresholds in Paralympic athletes while upper-body poling. The secondary aim was to compare the fit of the breakpoint models used to identify thresholds in the gas exchange thresholds data versus continuous linear and curvilinear (no-breakpoint) models. …”
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Association of The Healthy Eating Index and Body Composition Among Iran’s Paralympic Athletes with Hemodialysis and Hemophilia by Thaer Easa Murad AL-Rubaye

“…Objective: To determine the association between the healthy eating index (HEI) and body composition among Iran’s Paralympic athletes with hemodialysis and hemophilia. …”
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Are Dryland Strength and Power Measurements Associated with Swimming Performance? Preliminary Results on Elite Paralympic Swimmers by Luca Cavaggioni, Raffaele Scurati, Massimiliano Tosin, Riccardo Vernole, Luca Bonfanti, Athos Trecroci, Damiano Formenti

Subjects: “…Paralympic swimming…”
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The creative performance of the coaches of the Iraqi Paralympic Committee sub-committees from the players' point of view by Ahmed Jasim, mohammed najeeb

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Resistive and propulsive forces in wheelchair racing: a brief review by Ricardo Silveira, Daniel A. Marinho, Catarina C. Santos, Tiago M. Barbosa, Eduarda Coelho, Jorge Morais, Pedro Forte

Subjects: “…paralympics…”
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How elite athletes with a spinal cord injury sweat - An exploratory observational study by Anneke Hertig-Godeschalk, Claudio Perret

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The effectiveness of bandwidth knowledge of results on a throwing task in goalball players with visual impairments by Nir Dov Shimony, Ronnie Lidor, Gal Ziv

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” We are the Superhumans!” Sport e disabilità: gli eroi inabili by Isabella Quatera

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Real-Time Muscle Activity and Joint Range of Motion Monitor to Improve Shoulder Pain Rehabilitation in Wheelchair Basketball Players: A Non-Randomized Clinical Study by Giacomo Farì, Marisa Megna, Pietro Fiore, Maurizio Ranieri, Riccardo Marvulli, Valerio Bonavolontà, Francesco Paolo Bianchi, Filomena Puntillo, Giustino Varrassi, Victor Machado Reis

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Influence of intellectual impairment (II) on basketball players´ capacity to solve a game situation: towards evidence-based classification systems in II-basketball by Javier PINILLA, Javier PÉREZ-TEJERO, Javier SAMPEDRO, Ignacio REFOYO, Alberto LORENZO, Javier SAMPEDRO, Debbie VAN BIESEN, Yves VANLANDEWIJCK

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