Soccer as Rehabilitation for Blind People 2022
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Running head: SOCCER AS REHABILITATION FOR BLIND PEOPLE
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Introduction
The estimated number of blind people globally is 39 million, while those with a low
vision stand at 246 million. Over the past years, a large number of blind people have gone
through rehabilitation to regain their sight, and this majorly depends on different factors such as
the time of blindness at birth/congenital or development at the tender age. Such individuals
always tend to learn on various adaptations. However, individual who lose sight at older age
needs to learn new ways of doing things through rehabilitation.
Different types of blind rehabilitation have been used over the past years, such as gene
therapy, neuroprotective treatment, and physical approaches such as mobility training. Football
sports are perceived as one of the powerful low-cost blind rehabilitation methods since it
enhances the sound senses as well as social inclusion and cohesion of the disabled individuals
into the community (de Haan, Faul & Kohe, 2013). Over the past years, due to technological
advancement, there has been increasing number of products and techniques that have been used
in tracking and controlling the movement of both players and the ball on the pitch to evaluate the
performance of single and entire team both in the local and international view (Kimura, 2019).
On the same note, the technological devices enable the blind players to improve on their daily
tasks after having enough training on the ground.
Blind people’s ball is always designed in a way that enables the players to detect sounds,
thus locate both the ball and player, for example, shots equipped with sleigh bell to produce
sound. The sounds produced by the moving balls tend to create a sensory on the blind people,
thus through training, blind people tend to gain the capability to determine the direction, speed as
well as the distance between them and the ball to make an appropriate movement (Li,
2014). Additionally, during the training and football play, athletes are always faced with the
Introduction
The estimated number of blind people globally is 39 million, while those with a low
vision stand at 246 million. Over the past years, a large number of blind people have gone
through rehabilitation to regain their sight, and this majorly depends on different factors such as
the time of blindness at birth/congenital or development at the tender age. Such individuals
always tend to learn on various adaptations. However, individual who lose sight at older age
needs to learn new ways of doing things through rehabilitation.
Different types of blind rehabilitation have been used over the past years, such as gene
therapy, neuroprotective treatment, and physical approaches such as mobility training. Football
sports are perceived as one of the powerful low-cost blind rehabilitation methods since it
enhances the sound senses as well as social inclusion and cohesion of the disabled individuals
into the community (de Haan, Faul & Kohe, 2013). Over the past years, due to technological
advancement, there has been increasing number of products and techniques that have been used
in tracking and controlling the movement of both players and the ball on the pitch to evaluate the
performance of single and entire team both in the local and international view (Kimura, 2019).
On the same note, the technological devices enable the blind players to improve on their daily
tasks after having enough training on the ground.
Blind people’s ball is always designed in a way that enables the players to detect sounds,
thus locate both the ball and player, for example, shots equipped with sleigh bell to produce
sound. The sounds produced by the moving balls tend to create a sensory on the blind people,
thus through training, blind people tend to gain the capability to determine the direction, speed as
well as the distance between them and the ball to make an appropriate movement (Li,
2014). Additionally, during the training and football play, athletes are always faced with the
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