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Adapted Physical Activity

An Interdisciplinary Approach

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Gudrun Doll-Tepper

    1. Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 33, Germany

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  2. Christoph Dahms

    1. Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 33, Germany

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  3. Bernd Doll

    1. Orthopädische Klinik und Poliklinik im Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin 33, Germany

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  4. Harald Selzam

    1. Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 33, Germany

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Table of contents (71 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  4. Sports for Athletes with Disabilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Sports for Athletes with Disabilities: Future Considerations

      • R. D. Steadward
      Pages 65-73

    3. A Comparison Between the Psychological Profiles of Wheelchair Athletes, Wheelchair Nonathletes, and Able-Bodied Athletes

      • D. P. Jacobs, G. M. Roswal, M. A. Horuat, D. R. Gorman
      Pages 75-79

    4. The Development from a Medical Classification to a Player Classification in Wheelchair Basketball

      • P. L. Craven
      Pages 81-86

    5. The Mechanical Power Output of World Class Wheelchair Athletes

      • M. Nadeau, P. Léveillé, M. Quessy, D. Royer
      Pages 87-91

    6. A Kinematic Analysis of Wheelchair Propulsion

      • R. D. Steadward, C. M. Walsh, P. Gervais
      Pages 93-99

    7. Track Wheelchair Ergometry: Effects of Handrim Diameter on Metabolic Responses

      • G. W. Gayle, G. M. Davis, R. L. Pohlman, R. M. Glaser
      Pages 101-107

    8. Table Tennis for Wheelchair Users

      • J. O. C. Vanlerberghe, L. Gysemans
      Pages 109-114
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About this book

From 21-24 June 1989 the International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (IF APA) held its 7th International Symposium "Adapted Physical Activity -An Interdisciplinary Approach" in Berlin (West). This was the first time that this symposium has been held in a German speaking country, and it presented unique challenges to the organizers. For example, neither the term nor the field of adapted physical activity was known in Germany before the symposium. Thus, at the outset, the organizers' task was to define the meaning of adapted physical activity as a concept and to identify areas and professionals associated with it. After lengthy and intense discussions we agreed on the following definition: Adapted physical activity refers to movement, physical activity, and sports in which special emphasis is placed on the interests and capabilities of individuals with limiting conditions, such as the disabled, health impaired or aged. Despite the fact that the use of an English term for a symposium in Germany would not be accepted by all German speaking professionals, it was decided to use this term because no translation appeared to be fully adequate. "Sports for the Disabled", "Modified Movement Activites", "Sport Therapy", or "Psychomotor Exercises" would have represented only single aspects of adapted physical activity and were thus incomplete.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 33, Germany

    Gudrun Doll-Tepper, Christoph Dahms, Harald Selzam

  • Orthopädische Klinik und Poliklinik im Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin 33, Germany

    Bernd Doll

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Adapted Physical Activity

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach

  • Editors: Gudrun Doll-Tepper, Christoph Dahms, Bernd Doll, Harald Selzam

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74873-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-74875-2Published: 13 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-74873-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 485

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Rehabilitation, Sports Medicine

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