School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
Disabil Rehabil. 2010;32(26):2237-43. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2010.491577.
The complexity of wheelchair sports provides the scientist with a unique challenge. There are two major components that contribute towards 'wheeled sports' performance: the athlete and the chair. It is the interaction of these two components that enable wheelchair propulsion and the sporting movements required within a given sport. This article will describe three discrete case studies on how sport scientists have worked with Great Britain coaches and practitioners to help optimise training leading to a major competition through evidence base practise. A fourth area will describe on-going work designed to address the optimisation of wheelchair configurations for wheelchair court sports. It will focus on four sports: wheelchair racing, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The first topic will discuss the concept of pushing economy and mechanical efficiency of wheelchair propulsion. The second topic will show how technology assists the coaching process. The third topic will illustrate the concept of sports classification, and show how training volume 'in terms of basketball shooting' may need to be individually assigned and finally future research within wheelchair team sports and chair configurations will be examined.
轮椅运动的复杂性为科学家们带来了独特的挑战。有两个主要因素会影响“轮式运动”的表现：运动员和轮椅。正是这两个因素的相互作用，使得轮椅推进和特定运动所需的运动动作成为可能。本文将描述三个离散的案例研究，介绍运动科学家如何与英国教练和从业者合作，通过基于证据的实践来帮助优化训练，以备战重大比赛。第四个领域将描述正在进行的工作，旨在优化轮椅配置，以适应轮椅场地运动。它将集中在四个运动项目上：轮椅竞速、轮椅网球、轮椅篮球和轮椅橄榄球。第一个主题将讨论推动经济和轮椅推进机械效率的概念。第二个主题将展示技术如何辅助教练过程。第三个主题将说明运动分类的概念，并展示如何根据篮球投篮的次数“来为运动员分配个性化的训练量”。最后，将研究轮椅团队运动和椅子配置的未来研究。
