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Coaching Non-Ambulant Disabled Bowlers
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If a disabled person presents him/herself to you
for coaching and he/she is not in a wheelchair, you have to satisfy yourself he/she is
ambulant or non-ambulant, i.e. he/she has sufficient walking capacity tobe coached upright
(as an ambulant) or he/she has not. To help determine this factor Buranda Therapy Group have devised a simple test (all green tests must be simple and uncomplicated and not employ expensive mechanical/electronic machinery). He/she is assisted down on to the green. He/she is led to the two-metre mark. He/she is required to walk unaided (using a stick, wristcalipers, crutch or orthoses) to the end of the centre line.... do a complete turn and walk back to the start point. He/she is rated - E - Easy, P - Poor, U - Unable "E" rates as ambulant, "U" rates as non-ambulant, "P" you have to decide for yourself...each rating is an individual case. |
| Why is someone classed ..... "Non-Ambulant"? | Mainly for the reason that they are incapable of using their own legs for locomotion... in a non-amputee, the legs sometime are so lacking in muscular support that they are not capable of carrying the weight of the human body. |
| What brings a would-be Bowler to this Classification? | Mainly disease or happenings (e.g. accidents,
surgery, congenital defects). People wind up in a WHEELCHAIR because of:
Non-Ambulant (non-wheelchair) Bowlers result from:
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