Adaptive physical culture: fundamentals, functions, goals

To date, almost all countries have a fairly high rate of disability associated with complex production processes, military conflicts, increased traffic flows, environmental degradation and other factors contributing to the temporary or total loss of any capacity of the human body. This led to the emergence of such a concept as adaptive physical culture. Its object is people who have lost vital functions for a long period of time or forever. This category includes patients or people with disabilities who underwent amputation of limbs, removal of organs that have lost hearing or vision, and the ability to move independently. All these people remain members of society and for their further survival they need a transformation (so to speak, adaptation or adaptation) to a new way of life. This is what adaptive physical education is doing.

In our society, the opinion has developed that the chronic sick or disabled should be dealt with by representatives of social services and health services, but not athletes. The theory of physical culture completely destroys this opinion, confirming its position with practice. The fact is that, in contrast to medical rehabilitation (which, in general, is aimed at restoring the functions of the body with the use of medical equipment, massages and pharmacology), adaptive physical culture promotes self-realization of the person in new conditions using natural factors (a healthy lifestyle, sport , Hardening, rational nutrition). And this requires maximum efforts and complete distraction from their problems and illnesses.

Adaptive physical culture: content and tasks

In itself, adaptive physical education consists of several subspecies of occupations that are used in a complex way and aimed at restoring the disabled person both physically and morally, attracting him to a normal way of life: communication, entertainment, participation in competitions, active rest and so on.

So, what does adaptive physical culture imply? This, above all, physical education, adaptive sports, motor rehabilitation and physical recreation.

Adaptive physical education or education is aimed at familiarizing the sick or disabled with a complex of knowledge about propulsion systems and skills, developing special abilities and qualities, preserving, using and developing the remaining physical and motional qualities. The main task of the AFC is to educate a disabled person of self-reliance. Also formed are: the ability to overcome physical and moral burdens, achieve their goals, be confident and independent.

Adaptive sports are aimed at educating and developing disabled sports athletes. It provides for participation in competitions and achievement of good results. The main goal of the AU is to attract a disabled person to sports, develop intellectual, technological and mobilization values of physical culture.

Adaptive physical recreation involves the restoration of physical forces that were invalidated by a disabled person during competitions, work or study with the help of entertainment, pleasant leisure or recreation. All procedures aimed at preventing fatigue or restoring vitality should bring only pleasure, psychological comfort and interest is the main principle of PRA.

Adaptive motor rehabilitation is aimed at restoring the functions lost as a result of the transferred diseases, injuries or overvoltages associated with the main activity or way of life. This does not apply to functions that were lost due to the underlying disease that caused disability. The main goal of ADR is to teach a patient or an invalid to use natural means, for example, massage, exercise programs , hardening and other procedures correctly and with health benefits.

Adaptive physical culture is a direction that helps sick people and people with disabilities to adapt morally and physically to new life conditions, raise their self-esteem and raise their vitality level.