<P> The Paralympics developed from a rehabilitation programme for British war veterans with spinal injuries . In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttman, a neurologist working with World War II veterans with spinal injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in the UK, began using sport as part of the rehabilitation programmes of his patients . </P> <P> In 2006, the Extremity Games was formed for physically disabled people, specifically limb loss or limb difference, to be able to compete in extreme sports . </P> <P> The disability rights movement aims to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for disabled people . The specific goals and demands of the movement are accessibility and safety in transportation, architecture, and the physical environment; equal opportunities in independent living, employment, education, and housing; and freedom from abuse, neglect, and violations of patients' rights . Effective civil rights legislation is sought to secure these opportunities and rights . </P> <P> The early disability rights movement was dominated by the medical model of disability, where emphasis was placed on curing or treating disabled people so that they would adhere to the social norm, but starting in the 1960s, rights groups began shifting to the social model of disability, where disability is interpreted as an issue of discrimination, thereby paving the way for rights groups to achieve equality through legal means . </P>

Difference between social and medical model of physical disability