Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gushchina YULIA
Co-Founder, BRICSCESS
Department of General and Clinical Pharmacology
Deputy Director for International Affairs
Institute of Medicine of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Russia
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yulia Gushchina has been working and doing research for many years at the Department of General and Clinical Pharmacology at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Her scientific interests include current issues of pharmacology, pharmacoeconomic and pharmacoepidemiologic aspects of the treatment of socially significant diseases, as well as issues of sports pharmacology, and author of more than 40 scientific articles, including journals Q1-Q2. Currently, Yulia Gushchina is Deputy Director for International Activities of the Institute of Medicine of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, including dealing with issues of international volunteering and adaptation of foreign students studying abroad. At the 3rd BRICSCESS conference that was held from 26 to 29 February 2024 in Delhi India, Prof Yulia Gushchina was elected by the board of BRICSCESS for a term of 4 years as vice-president for Russia. Yulia Gushchina has extensive experience in organizing international events, including acting as a moderator of the section on medicine at the II International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists "For the Sustainable Development of Civilization: Cooperation, Science, Education, Technology" (November 21-24, 2023).
Chronic Illness and Special Populations in Sport in Russia
There are 5 types of adaptive sports in Russia: 4 types implemented in the Paralympic movement, and 1 type - in the Deaflympic movement. Types of adaptive sports are classified from the type of disease of athletes or practitioners. There are distinguished: sport of the blind, sport of persons with locomotor apparatus defects, sport of persons with intellectual disabilities and sport of the deaf, soccer of persons with cerebral palsy. Based on aggregate signs separate disciplines in adaptive sports with the designated type of violation are allocated. Also in the Russian Federation as a separate sport there is group of persons with cerebral palsy, which has its own sports federation. In the past few years, many directions of adaptive sports development in the Russian Federation regions have been implemented in accordance with the Concept for the Development in the Russian Federation of the System of Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Habilitation of Persons with Disabilities, including children with disabilities, for the period until 2025 and the action plan for its implementation. Despite the existence of the International Standard on permissible types of lesions in Paralympic sports, there is currently a problem of unification and creation of a single classification of athletes by type of impairment or lesions and age categories for more successful regulation of adaptive sports and requires additional research. There is also a problem of spreading adaptive sports not only in the central regions, but throughout the Russian Federation. Along with it comes the problem of availability of special facilities for adaptive sports and financing. Adaptive sport is a powerful tool of socialization and social integration. It unites people with a common interest in games and competitions, regardless of their physical condition, and sports and cyber sports teams and communities provide an opportunity for interaction, experience sharing and support, contributing to the development of self-esteem and social skills.