Although some level of adaptive sport has likely occurred throughout human history, organized sports for people with disabilities has a relatively brief history. The earliest international sports organization for people with disabilities was the International Committee for Deaf Sports, which was establish in 1922. 1932 saw the establishment of the British Society of One-armed golfers, which is one of the first organizations for people with specifically physical disability. The bloom of adaptive sports actually occurred as a result of World War II in 1939-1945, when a large number of otherwise fit, young soldiers and civilians sustained permanent physical impairments including spinal cord injury (19). The father of modern adaptive sports is
