Which impairments are eligible for para sport?

Q: Which impairments are eligible for para sport?

The IPC Classification Code 2025 (Article 8) recognises seven eligible impairments: Physical impairments (from a condition of the central or peripheral nervous system, or musculoskeletal): Impaired muscle power: reduced or no ability to contract muscles to generate force. Impaired passive range of movement: a joint can't be moved passively through a normal range. Limb deficiency and/or limb length difference: total or partial absence of a limb, or a leg or arm length difference, from trauma, illness or a congenital cause. Short stature: reduced total body length from congenitally or developmentally shorter limb bones (not from limb deficiency alone). Coordination impairments: hypertonia/spasticity, motor ataxia, or dyskinesia (athetosis, dystonia, chorea), from a central nervous system condition. Vision impairment: Reduced or no visual function, even with the best possible glasses or lenses, from a condition of the eye, optic nerve or visual pathways or cortex of the brain. Intellectual impairment: A health condition restricting general mental functions, including cognitive functions and their development over the lifespan. Each sport chooses which of these it caters for. Some, such as para athletics, include all of them; others, such as para judo, cater for only one.

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The IPC Classification Code 2025 (Article 8) recognises seven eligible impairments:

Physical impairments (from a condition of the central or peripheral nervous system, or musculoskeletal):

Impaired muscle power: reduced or no ability to contract muscles to generate force.
Impaired passive range of movement: a joint can't be moved passively through a normal range.
Limb deficiency and/or limb length difference: total or partial absence of a limb, or a leg or arm length difference, from trauma, illness or a congenital cause.
Short stature: reduced total body length from congenitally or developmentally shorter limb bones (not from limb deficiency alone).
Coordination impairments: hypertonia/spasticity, motor ataxia, or dyskinesia (athetosis, dystonia, chorea), from a central nervous system condition.

Vision impairment:
6. Reduced or no visual function, even with the best possible glasses or lenses, from a condition of the eye, optic nerve or visual pathways or cortex of the brain.

Intellectual impairment:
7. A health condition restricting general mental functions, including cognitive functions and their development over the lifespan.

Each sport chooses which of these it caters for. Some, such as para athletics, include all of them; others, such as para judo, cater for only one.