ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with disability and sport, and focuses on recent work on parasport, social activism and sporting cyborgs. It looks at disability and physical activity and proposes evidenced health benefits, barriers to being active, physical activity messengers and forms of communication like infographics, behavioural change strategies, and some possible problems associated with physical activity. As part of creating audience-specific messages about physical activity through an infographic, the co-production process also highlighted that sedentariness was an important concern for many disabled adults. Health professionals, particularly physiotherapists, are trusted to promote physical activity for disabled people. Another issue that has recently been explored in terms of disability sport is sporting event legacies. Governing bodies of disability sport, such as the International Paralympic Committee, claim that events like the Paralympics offer social change legacies. The chapter concludes by considering some possible future directions for research on disability, sport and physical activity.
