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The Validity Of A Smartphone App (Myrecovery©) To Serve As Proxy For Activity Level In Athletes, Nicole K. Bryant, Alan Getgood, Trevor Birmingham, Ryan Degen, Kevin Willits, Robert Litchfield, J. Robert Giffin
The Validity Of A Smartphone App (Myrecovery©) To Serve As Proxy For Activity Level In Athletes, Nicole K. Bryant, Alan Getgood, Trevor Birmingham, Ryan Degen, Kevin Willits, Robert Litchfield, J. Robert Giffin
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Background: When investigating the effectiveness of interventions to prevent recurrence of sports injuries, measuring exposure time (the time an athlete is at risk of injury) is crucial. The most accurate method of measuring exposure time involves hiring personnel to stand field side during practices and games to record minutes at risk. However, this does not capture other activities in which the athlete may take part that are not part of their formal sport that may put them at risk of re-injury. Another means to collect this data is to ask the athlete to self-report exposure. However, self-report diaries are often …
The Influence Of The Social Determinants Of Health On Para-Sports Involvement Throughout The Caribbean And Americas, Laura Misener
The Influence Of The Social Determinants Of Health On Para-Sports Involvement Throughout The Caribbean And Americas, Laura Misener
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As the number of individuals with a disability grows worldwide, the Paralympic Games and para-sports have seen a growth in participation (WHO, 2011). However, international sporting competitions including the Paralympic Games remain dominated by developed countries (Andreff, 2001). In the last Paralympic Games, the USA, Canada, and Brazil made up nearly 70% of participants from the North and South American region with 17 of the 28 committees sending five or less participants (Maleske & Sant, 2020). The present study investigates the social and cultural determinants in the Caribbean and Americas of para-sport participation in the region and their relation to …
Cultivating A Definitive Volunteer Training Program For Large Disability Sport Events, Avery M. O'Neil
Cultivating A Definitive Volunteer Training Program For Large Disability Sport Events, Avery M. O'Neil
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Disabled sport is significantly less funded than able-bodied sport. Because of this discrepancy, volunteers are heavily relied on for the functioning of large-scale disability sport events. Volunteers are critical to any disability sport event, and it is of utmost importance that they are trained correctly so that these events are successful celebrations of sport. The purpose of this study is to attain current disability sport volunteer training programs and integrate these findings with new qualitative data collected through interviews with athletes with disabilities, event organizers, and previous volunteers. The collection of information will be multi-phased and include data analysis using …