Those who mobility in question could be, in some respects, the feeling that they are limited to places they go and what they can do, but there is no reason to accept these restrictions, and many people do not understand. There are a lot of mobility products are available, such as wheelchairs, lifts and escalators that can go to many places freely and without support. Many people adopt this philosophy a step further and in sports such as wheelchair basketball team.
Basketball wheelchair is a sport that was 60 years. Because of advances in medical technology, like the discovery of penicillin, has survived many veterans of World War II, with amputations and injuries of the spinal cord.
Before World War II, the most serious violations of the spinal cord and injuries, amputations, as a general rule, led to the death, often following an infection. Indeed, only 20% of wounded soldiers seriously wounded during the First World War, survives at home for him. This figure was actually inversed during the Second World War and almost 90% of the soldiers seriously wounded survived.
Design disabled also greatly improved during this period with the first of folding steel tubes E & J wheelchair. This chair to facilitate the transport and was an important step in locking blocks and wooden chairs have been before that. You may also be created, relatively inexpensive and helped to make wheelchairs available to everyone, not just the privileged.
Given that the number of those who were disabled and relied on wheelchairs has increased during the 1940’s, began after many veterans reason to stay active and find joy. Bowling wheel was appreciated, as well as wheelchair basketball, as both played today.
Basketball wheelchair, the traditional rules, such as basketball. A 10-foot basketball goal is used, there is a large area of basketball, but there are some differences. A player can not dribbling the ball, but they can not touchdown of more than two times higher than without the ball or rebound, they are losing control, the other team. Even if the choice of players above and makes contact with the ground, or on a back far enough, that their anti-Tipp wheels in contact with the ground, controlling the ball is the other team.
Another difference in wheelchair basketball player is a special classification system that is used for the teams as fair as possible. Each player is evaluated on a scale of 1 to 4.5, 1 being the person with the highest degree of disability. During a match, the total number of points for the five men on the Tribunal can not exceed 14 In some places, people with disabilities are allowed to play as well and they are a rating of 5 points.
Of course, basketball play and not everyone else, it is important to remain active, and you find hobbies and interests that make you happy. There is no reason to believe that you are too limited, because you are a wheelchair.
