Examples of comorbidities associated with certain diagnoses
| Diagnosis | Associated comorbidity | Comment |
| Spinal cord injury—wheelchair basketball | Urinary tract infection associated with neuropathic bladder | Not necessarily sport related |
| Neuromuscular disorder/muscular dystrophy—shooting Para sport | Decreasing muscle strength and/or cardiac function | Decreasing baseline of health over time and cardiac risk |
| Bilateral above knee amputee—handcycling | Phantom limb pain—athlete uses regular endurance exercise as a form of pain management | Increased risk of shoulder pain deemed necessary by the athlete to manage mental health |
| Vision impairment—Para swimming (eg, pseudoxanthoma elasticum, Stickler syndrome) | Collagen disorder causing sight loss but also affects soft tissue | Increased risk of injury and impaired healing of tissues |