3. -HISTORY-
The wheelchair basketball began in 1944
invented by Ludwig Guttmann, through a
rehabilitation program in a hospital in
England.
In 1993 the wheelchair basketball was
approved like a official sport. The first
match was played in 1956 in the tourney of
Stoke Mandeville. The wheelchair
basketball is play in 75 countries.
There are 12 players and the time of a
match is four parts of 10 minutes, a rest of 2
minutes between each part an a rest of 15
minutes between the 2º and 3º part.
4. -RULES-
The rules are very similar than the normal basketball. Some
rules are:
-The players can’t get out of the chair.
-They have eight second to pass to the other part of the field.
-If one team have 50 baskets more of the other team, the
match finish.
-Only in free throws the player can touch
with the small wheels the triplet line.
-If a part of the player’s wheelchair touch
the line out is considerate out.
6. FIELD
The field in Wheelchair
Basketball is 28 metres
long and 15 metres wide.
The court is divided into
two halves. In each half
there is a basket which is
3.05 metres from the
ground. The diameter of
the basket is 45 cm. The
blackboard of the basket
is 1.05 metres high and
1.80 metres.
7. PLAYERS’ EQUIPMENT
The main equipment they need is a
wheelchair. The height of the sit
can’t be more than 53 cm. The
wheelchair can have 3 or 4 wheels,
two big ones located at the back
and one or two located at the
front. The maximun diameter of
the big wheels is 66 cm.
The wheelchair has to have a
cushion that can’t be more than 10
cm high.
9. Steve Garber, Alissa Burkholder and Ashanna
Randall, three engineers from the Johns
Hopkins University, have made possible that
blind people play basketball.
Blind Industries and Services of Maryland have
financed this proyect.
Thanks to…
10. The system:
They use electronic wadgets that produce
sounds. There are some of them in the field (like
in the baskets) and obviously in the ball. In that
way, the players
can know where
are they located
and where is the
ball.
12. The important structures of the foot can be divided
into several categories. These include:
bones and joints
ligaments and tendons
muscles
nerves
blood vessels
Many of the problems and injuries in the knees, hips
and back that athletes suffer are related with a
problem in the feet.
The foot is an incredibly complex mechanism.
We have done an interview to a sports podiatrist to know more about the foot care.
14. 1. In which consist being a sports podiatrist?
It consists in being specialized in pathologies of the foot and injuries resulting from
sports.
2. What did you study to become a sports podiatrist?
First the podiatry graduate at the University of Madrid and later a master of biomechanics
and sports podiatry in Sevilla.
3. Why did you specialize in sports?
Because since I was younger I like do sports.
4. Do you receive a certain sport athletes or everything in general? And what ages are
most common?
Lately I have been receiving a lot of people that play paddle. It is a popular sport because
everyone can practice it, the rules are really simple. They also come many runners. The
main age is between 40 and 50, some people believe that are still young… Children that
play basketball also come with small injuries requiring a biomechanical analysis.
5. What injuries are most common?
The most common injuries are fasciitis, heel spurs, tendinitis in the Achilles tendon and
metatarsalgia.
6. Do you think that athletes take care of these feet properly?
A few years ago little was known of foot care, but now it is more valued and athletes have
realized that it is the support structure on which all movements are exercised.
7. What suggestions do you recommend us to prevent sports injuries?
I recommend a good warm up before sports, and stretching after a sport activity.
Adequate footwear to sports surface is also essential.
8. What treatments do you do?
My treatments are mainly based on custom templates, i.e. to size for each athlete, so
that correct excessive or negative movements made by their feet. I also offer stretching,
rehabilitation or bandages.
9. How is a template made?
First a mold with phenol foam is made to collect the foot shape of the athlete, then it is
filled with gypsum to obtain a negative foot and finally materials are heated to make the
template in an oven, and they are shaped with the gypsum mold. Then the template is
shaped on the polisher and lining.
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16. Basketball as a social, cultural and educative
phenomenon
Basketball helps the people to know how to play
in teams and how to get a common objective. It
makes the players to put the success of the
team before his or her own success. For
example if one player can shoot a triple but he
decides to pass the ball to a mate that can
shoot, too.
17. Learn to work
in teams and
to share is
important for
the education
of children.
18. Some fashion in basketball
They born in 1908 as a footwear for the basketball
players.
1st announcement of
Converse shoes
Nowadays there are
a lot of colours and
all people wear
them.
