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Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes

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Disabled sport, also called “adaptive sport” or “Paralympic sport” when practiced at its most elite level, grew out of a unique treatment paradigm for wounded World War II soldiers. In 1939, during the height of Nazi influence on German politics, Sir Ludwig Guttmann (1899–1980), a Jewish, German-born neurologist and neurosurgeon, applied for and was granted an English visa. He initially took a position at Oxford but later became the Director of the National Spinal Injuries Unit at the Ministry of Pensions Hospital located in Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury.

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  1. Department of Sports Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Fayetteville, Georgia, USA

    David M. Popoli MD

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  1. Division of Sports Medicine, Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Lyle Micheli

  2. Division of Sports Medicine, Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Cynthia Stein

  3. Division of Sports Medicine, Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael O'Brien

  4. Division of Sports Medicine, Childrens Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Pierre d’Hemecourt

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Popoli, D. (2014). Adaptive Sport. In: Micheli, L., Stein, C., O'Brien, M., d’Hemecourt, P. (eds) Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes. Contemporary Pediatric and Adolescent Sports Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4753-5_21

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