Kinesiology, Vol. 30 No. 1, 1998.
Professional paper
The importance of recreational sport and sports programs during rehabilitation and post-rehabilitation of the physically disabled
Stjepan Heimer
; Faculty of Physical Education, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Mirko Relac
; Faculty of Physical Education, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper gives the survey of the contemporary approach to the application of sports-recreational and sport activities during and after the rehabilitation of the persons with a disability. Special attention is paid to the results of the scientific researches of the influence of sports-recreational programs on the improvement of psychological, functional and motor characteristics of persons with a disability. The suggested procedures are directed towards the application of the sports-recreational programs for the improvement of the psychosomatic characteristics during the clinical rehabilitation, immediately after such rehabilitation, as well as upon the arrival at home. The roles of the organization “Sport for all” and of the wider social environment are emphasized in this paper — the designing of organizational, professional and executive procedures necessary for engaging the persons with a disability into the programs which apart from their medical effects also have the goal to increase the quality of life, among other things by establishing the communication with other people and by raising the level of self-acceptance.
Keywords
persons with a disability, sports recreation, fitness, functional abilities
Hrčak ID:
256557
URI
Publication date:
26.4.1998.
Visits: 1.036 *