Understanding Impairment, Disability, and Handicap in Sports

Decreases: concept and types.
Sport = "a physical activity, free, spontaneous, practiced in leisure hours, as recreation, fun and relaxation.
Introduction: benefits of sport.
• The sports practice brings countless benefits to the individual,
Improves quality of life, health and physical fitness, used to discover one's talents and enjoy the success to outdo each day.
· A psychological level, helps to increase self-esteem and facilitating social integration, to create bonds of comradeship and solidarity. Thus, adequate to meet basic needs for growth physically, emotionally and socially.
· We distinguish 4 types of sports, serving the purpose for which practices: competitive sports, adapted sports, leisure and sporting therapeutic sport.
Basics:
· Person who has an alteration (of greater or lesser degree) temporarily or indefinitely and can be physical, mental or social.
Deficiency: within the health experience, an impairment is "any loss or abnormality of structure or psychological, physiological or anatomica.Se characterized by lost or abnormalities that may be temporary or permanent among which include the existence or appearance of an anomaly, defect or loss caused to a member, organ, tissue or other body structure, including our own systems of mental function. The deficiency is the manifestation of a pathological condition, and in principle, reflects disturbances at the level of organs.
Disability: a disability is "any restriction or lack (resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner and within the range considered normal for a human being." It is characterized by excesses or deficiencies in performance and behavior in a normal routine activity, which can be temporary or permanent, reversible or irreversible and progressive or regressive. Disabilities may arise as a direct result of deficiency or a response of the individual, especially psychological, to physical, sensory or other. Disability is the objectivity of a handicap and, as such, reflects changes at the level of the person. Handicap: a disadvantage for a given individual resulting from impairment or disability that limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is normal for you (depending on age, sex and social and cultural factors). This concerns the value ascribed to the situation or experience of an individual when it departs from the norm. It is characterized by the discrepancy between the performance and status of the individual and the individual himself or espectaticas the particular group they belong to. Handicap are, therefore, the socialization of an impairment or disability, and as such reflects cultural consequences, social, economic and environmental pear individual arising from the presence of impairment and disability.
Gap = disorders of organs;
disabled = person-level disorder;
handicap = disorder at the societal level.