FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF PARALYMPIC ATHLETES IN THE PRACTICE OF A SPORTS MEDICINE PHYSICIAN
The lecture represents the history of the classification of athletes in the Paralympic Movement; the historical reasons for the transition from the
Medical classification to the Sport-specific Functional classification; the goal and the main features of the Functional classification; description of
classifiers in the various types of the adaptive sports; definition of the Eligible Impairments types in the Paralympic Movement; the role and responsibility
of the Doctor in Sports Medicine in field of the Functional classification of the Paralympic athletes.
Keywords:
Paralympic Movement; adaptive sports; athlete; disabled; functional classification; IPC Classification Code; classifier; the eligibleimpairments types.