2024-03-10 04:09:00
the essentials Combining business with pleasure, breaking a sedentary lifestyle through trust, creating social bonds, finding solutions to relieve ailments, so many arguments that motivate the friendly Réadaptaform team. A “public health” association based in the Pyrénées-Orientales, in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts, which shines in Vallespir and attracts 80 members aged from 22 to 86 years old. We followed Marie-Caroline Osephius, a teacher in adapted physical activities, and that Tuesday morning, she was eagerly awaited in Reynès in a room lent by the town hall. To say that this meeting was overflowing with enthusiasm and exaltation is a fair truth!
Sneakers on their feet, they stamp with impatience, waiting for their teacher to arrive! Patricia 72 years old, Brigitte 66 years old, Laura 64 years old, Paule 69 years old, Dominique 62 years old, Martine and Michèle 67 years old and their friends from Boulou, Saint-Jean, Reynès and Céret can no longer do without it: ” We feel invigorated, it’s so effective. Flexibility is worked on with breathing, and then the content of the sessions is varied, our Marie-Caroline is wonderful, always smiling and in a good mood. She pushes us and we manage to surpass our limits. Depending on our difficulties, she gets around the problem. And then you know, in addition to working on your physique, this meeting does a lot of good for your morale. The atmosphere is great, healthy sport is good for the body and the head!”
Adapting to pathological functions
A unanimity which motivates more than ever the volunteer team chaired by Elodie Borg for 6 years. Holder of a Master’s degree in Adapted Physical Activities, worker in rehabilitation centers, this sportswoman, passionate regarding trail running and crossfit, likes to defy fate by adapting to pathological functions: “A sedentary lifestyle is a health emergency, it remains to find the ways to get out of it, then we must create practical exercises useful on a daily basis, such as on a chair or on the floor. What is also important is confidence, together we must gain in quality of life and therefore in autonomy, this requires consideration and personalization. In our meetings, we don’t care regarding the views of others, the main thing is solidarity, understanding, empathy, kindness.”
In conviviality
Growing from 5 to 80 members in five years, Réadaptaform meets the needs: “At the beginning we didn’t have a room, then there was covid, we didn’t let them go, by offering a video meeting every morning at 10 a.m. Word of mouth has done the rest, we have good ambassadors who testify to the benefits of these courses. What we now want is the establishment of agreements with institutions, establishments, municipalities, because healthy sport improves the quality of physical and social life, everyone wins!”
At 40, Marie-Caroline is an APA (not to be confused with the Personalized Autonomy Allowance), but an expert in adapted physical activities. The former judoka from Millas, trained in Font-Romeu, has managed for two years to barely make a living from her passion through her micro-enterprise: “I am, among other things, a service provider for the Rédaptaform association and involved in various sports-health structures. This What fascinates me is seeing the person evolve, in their balance, their flexibility, all with pleasure and conviviality. Adapted and effective exercises which are useful on a daily basis.” And the teacher knows a lot regarding the subject having herself a hip prosthesis: “we work the obliques to pick up the towel from the floor, we raise our arms to be able to comb our hair, we learn the knight’s position with one knee on the ground to get up better” practical and imaginative exercises that she also provides in an establishment for the elderly, and in a posturalgia clinic in Perpignan.
Improve autonomy
And Marie-Caroline concludes: “Healthy sport must become a priority, associations do what they can, but we must develop real aid plans, it is a social issue where everyone wins !” Same analysis for the president of Réadaptaform Elodie Borg: “the adaptation of courses, the building of confidence, are our driving forces to improve the quality of life and the autonomy of our members, we must go further so that the sedentary lifestyle which is the 4th cause of death in France, is no longer a fatality. For this, we need support and real consideration from teachers in Adapted Physical Activities, who are qualified supporters and invested in this challenge.”
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