Analysis of wheelchair falls in team sports at the Paralympic Games: video-based descriptive comparison between the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 games.
Kazuki FukuiNoriaki MaedaJunpei SasadaiReia ShimizuShogo TsutsumiSatoshi ArimaTsubasa TashiroKazuki KanedaMitsuhiro YoshimiRami MizutaTakeru AbekuraHinata EsakiTomoki TeradaMakoto KomiyaAkira SuzukiYukio UrabePublished in: BMJ open (2022)
The number of falls increased in Tokyo 2020 compared with Rio 2016, with no significant difference in the characteristics of falls between the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 games. Only in men's wheelchair basketball, the number of falls in low pointers significantly increased in the Tokyo 2020 games when compared with that in the Rio 2016 games.