A greater awareness and emphasis on integratiing disability into society has, especially in recent years, created increasing demand for adaptive sporting equipment. Participation in and viewing of sporting events in developed nations earning multi-million dollar contracts or children playing cricket or stick-ball on the street, sport is a part of most peoples lifestyle influencing community. Modified sporting aids and equipment are available for the majority of common sporting categories enabling people with a disability participation in both recreational and competitive sporting events.

Modern materials; carbon fibre, titainium and thermo-plastics along with a wide range of various alloys and polymers has facilitated development of higly technical adaptive sporting aids, particularly disability sporting equipment at a professional competitive level such as the Paralympics. These sophisticated aids can for example, assist track and field athletes in running faster and jumping higher than their able-bodied fellow athletes.

Disability friendly equipment at grass root levels, community based sporting clubs and associations have largely been developed by volunteer members posessing the skill required to create, or as an organisation fund-raise to purchase specialised adaptive sporting equipment for the disabled.

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