The Karatherapy/Wheelchair Sport Rehabilitation: New Methods of Rehabilitation

Karatherapy is a medical discipline of rehabilitation which consist in the application of movements and positions taken from the karate movements, positions taken from the karate kata, and any respiratory dynamics and states of consciousness for use in health.
Comprehensive Rehabilitation method, following the introduction of therapeutic programs the World Health Organization supported the training of professionals which the creator was forming, whose applications include all those situations, pathological or not, in which the patient requires an improvement in his life\\\'s quality and an integration in social, recreational and occupational activities in the best possible conditions.
The development of this discipline is based on the study of movement, from the standpoint of mechanical and biochemical hormone to test their effects on health. Subsequently, dynamic sequences were structured, whose utility was tested in different patient groups. Seventeen years were spent for the full consolidation of this work.
Their applications in rehabilitation cover varied pathologies'. There are specific programs for HIV patients and immunosuppressed in general.
Wheelchair karate is a system of sport rehabilitation, which is specific of Karatherapy created to enhance this integration. It provides three aspects that I consider fundamental: Performance of a martial arts activity with the opportunity to experience the great incentive provided by the effort and concentration expended to progress from one degree to another. Increase in psychomotor abilities, vital capacity, relaxation and muscle development of the entire upper body. An excellent way of rehabilitation that is always better accepted than conventional rehabilitation. The common nexus in the practice of this sport is the wheelchair. (By: Dr. Pablo Juan Cruz Pereda González: Doctor, Director of Clínica, University of Valladolid )

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• Commonground
• Health and Society
• W12R0006
• Karatherapy
• Medicine
• Rehabilitation
• Physical Disabilities
• Wheelchair
• Sport
• Integration
• Amputees
• Cerebral Palsy
• Paraplegia
• Hemiplegia
• Inmunosupressed
• Malformations
• Bipedestation Ambulation