INSTITUTES SUPPORT DISABILITY SPORT WORKSHOPS
INSTITUTES SUPPORT DISABILITY SPORT WORKSHOPS
by James Skitt - 28.01.10
The Peter Harrison Centre (PHC) for Disability Sport, the English Institute of Sport (EIS) and other Home Country Sports Institutes* have announced a series of workshops aimed at broadening the understanding of Paralympic disability groups.
Funded by the PHC and the English Institute of Sport (EIS), the event is also endorsed by the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and LOCOG, with the first workshop, which will focus on spinal cord injury, taking place on 27th May at the City of Manchester Stadium.
Paul Davies, Head of Sport Science and Medicine (Paralympic Sport) at the EIS, said: “This workshop marks the start of a programme of workshops, each of which will focus in detail on one of the six Paralympic disability groups.”
“We have designed this first workshop specifically around the needs of practitioners who are working with spinal cord injured athletes. The day will take delegates from rehabilitation through to sporting excellence, filling in many of the fundamentals that are often assumed rather than fully known or understood by the elite practitioner” he added.
Confirmed speakers for the first workshop include Dr Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey (Loughborough University), Dr Mike Price (Coventry University), Chris West (Brunel University), Laura Sutton (Teeside University) and Jeanette Crosland (Freelance Sports Dietician).Running this event alongside the Paralympic World Cup will also give delegates the ability to see some of the world’s best athletes in action, with Wheelchair Basketball and CP Football taking place on the same day as the workshop.
The workshop will be of interest to students, athletes, coaches, lecturers, science and medicine practitioners and anyone with an interest in the physiological responses to upper-body exercise and/or Paralympic sport.
For registration and costs visit the PHC website here
A second workshop, which will focus upon Cerebral Palsy, will take place in October 2010, whilst it is hoped a third workshop will coincide with the Paralympic World Cup in May 2011.
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* Home Country Sports Institutes supporting these workshops include the English Institute of Sport, the Welsh Institute of Sport and the Sport Scotland Institute of Sport.