Adaptive sport as real alternative for improving lives of people with disabilities

Slukhenska Ruslana. Adaptive sport as real alternative for improving lives of people with disabilities. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(3):503-512. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1211757 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5398 - The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 20.03.2018. Revised: 10.03.2018. Accepted: 30.03.2018. ADAPTIVE SPORT AS REAL ALTERNATIVE FOR IMPROVING LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Ruslana Slukhenska The Higher State Educational Establishment of Ukraine “Bukovinian State Medical University”, Chernivtsi, Ukraine slukhenskarus@gmail.com Abstract The article examines adaptive sport as alternative for improving lives of people with disabilities. Domestic and foreign experience of working with disable people have shown that physical education and sport are the most efficient methods of rehabilitation among mentioned contingent. Sanative physical education and adaptive sport generally allow realizing possibilities of people’s organism for full life, self-realization, social activity and integration into society, with the help of rationally organized motor activity as natural incentive of livelihoods, using preserved functions, remaining health, natural sources, and mental forces. Aim of the article is to consider main characteristics of sanative physical education as kind of active activity, define its aims, functions, theoretical principles and efficient realization on the practice. The article uses the following research methods: abstraction and generalization, induction. Conclusions. Sanative physical education and adaptive sport generally allow realizing possibilities of people’s organism for full life, self-realization, social activity and integration into society, with the help of rationally organized motor activity as natural incentive of livelihoods, using preserved functions, remaining health, natural sources, and mental forces. Key words: adaptive sport, sanative physical education, sports measures, disabilities