Inclusive Archery: A New Opportunity for Rehabilitation and Integration at IGSS

The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Guatemalan Social Security Institute (IGSS) seeks to achieve inclusion and that is why it began to promote the practice of archery, the first sport that was adapted for people with disabilities in the world. .

According to the IGSS, the purpose is to provide individual work to users regardless of age, gender or physical condition. “This discipline can be practiced by a wide segment of people with disabilities, people with motor deficiencies or people with disabilities,†it was detailed in a press release.

According to Dr. Karina Rodriguez, medical director of the hospital, the aim is to “give fundamental hope such as the integration and improvement of the athlete as an individual.”

“Today we take the first step to continue advancing and integrate in an inclusive way those who are interested in the practice of this beautiful sport,†he assured.

Archery for people with disabilities, recently inaugurated at the Rehabilitation Hospital #IGSSintegrates sports practice to develop psychological, physiological, therapeutic and social skills. #SomosIGSS
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Advice from the National Archery Association

It was stated that there is professional advice from the National Archery Association to place each athlete in the corresponding category, which seeks:

• Stimulate the athlete’s self-improvement
• Improve self-confidence
• Use free time appropriately
• Choosing sports as a lifestyle
• Use sport as a means of social integration
• Improve perceptual and motor activities
• Acquire and perfect motor and hand-eye coordination
• Improve individual physical achievements and maintain them
• Correct postural vices
• Develop a technique adapted to a sporting discipline

Blanca Oliva, one of the patients, was enthusiastic and happy about practicing this sport. “I liked getting to know this sport and that the hospital includes it is something positive for us, the patients, because the fact of being hospitalized here helps us change our minds and take it as part of our therapy for rehabilitation, not only physical, but but emotional,” he emphasized.

2024-02-22 05:30:20
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