(2024) Science and education, 3, 17-22. Odessa.
Hanna Zhara,
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor,
Professor at the Department of Biological Bases of Physical Education, Health and Sports,
T.H. Shevchenko National University "Chernihiv Colehium",
53, Hetmana Polubotka Str., Chernihiv, Ukraine,
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-542X
Researcher ID: R-7389-2017
Scopus Author ID: 58284024100
WAR VETERANS’ PHYSICAL AND SPORTS REHABILITATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF VETERANS’ SPACES
SUMMARY:
The relevance of the problem is due to the growing needs of military personnel, war veterans and their family members for complex rehabilitation, which is one of the important challenges for the public health system in Ukraine. The search for effective methods and tools for rehabilitation in the post-acute period at the community level is urgent given the multiplicity of traumas, injuries, physiological and psychological conditions, which requires an individual approach at the same time as supporting the veteran community on an "from equal-to-equal" principle. There are large numbers of veterans who, due to their health injures or lack of motivation, cannot participate in physical and sports activities with high-intensity motor loads, such as veteran sports. Therefore, the introduction of physical culture and sports interventions with low-intensity motor loads in the conditions of veteran hubs (as multifunctional institutions for the reintegration of servicemen, war veterans and their family. members by providing informational and advisory support and organizing their rehabilitation and readaptation) is promising considering the existing nosologies and expressed needs, as well as the creation of more psychologically comfortable conditions for rehabilitation within such spaces. The purpose of the research is to demonstrate the possibilities of low-intensity motor activity interventions for the implementation of physical culture and sports rehabilitation of military personnel and war veterans in the conditions of veteran hubs. Research methods: bibliosemantic method, interviews, surveys, goniometry. Results. The article presents the content, principles, SWOT analysis and results of the pilot implementation of the project "Specialized course of self-preservation, self-recovery and survival", which is implemented in the conditions of veteran hubs for physical and sports rehabilitation of military personnel, war veterans and their family members. The content of the project includes 3 degrees of theoretical and practical training, which allow participants to master self-recovery skills, get full motivation for daily physical activity, an individual set of exercises for a conscious feeling of one's own body, motor correction of one's psychophysical state; for the wounded – to continue the rehabilitation process; and also prepare those willing to help others. According to the results of the implementation of the 1st and 2nd degrees of the project, 83.7% of the 43 participants rated it as useful and favourable for themselves. An increase in the amplitude of movements (from 3 to 22% in different participants), a decrease in pain, an improvement in sleep and mood, an increase in work capacity, and a decrease in irritability and anxiety were noted. The proposed project makes it possible to compensate for unresolved aspects in the system of physical culture and sports rehabilitation of servicemen and war veterans in the conditions of veteran hubs.
KEYWORDS:
military personnel, war veterans, physical culture and sports rehabilitation, low-intensity motor loads, veteran hub, social project, SWOT-analysis.
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