Course description

Adapted Care

One-hour group sessions once a week.

The intervention includes supervised sessions in small groups, complemented by individually prescribed home exercises. Martial arts practice (karate with controlled impacts) is integrated into each session to effectively improve:

• Postural stability

• Muscle extensibility

• Joint flexibility

• Balance

• Reaction time

• Coordination

• Muscle strength

• Internal sense of spatial orientation

Minimal and controlled impact, as demonstrated in recent studies, is crucial for bone strengthening.

One-hour group sessions are offered each week. Physical test sessions are also organized during the year to assess progress and adjust personal goals.

The Program

The technical content of the program is based on a literature review (including the detailed description of programs requested from different authors) and on the expertise and field experience ofMelCoaching. It has been divided into eight sessions of about 12 lessons, each with specific objectives and a standardized framework (combination and sequence of exercises).

The exercises aim to improve:

• Postural stability : e.g. Body extension, maximum relaxation.

• Muscle extensibility and joint flexibility : e.g. Stretching and varied exercises for all muscle groups (flexors and extensors).

• Balance : e.g. Knee bends, tandem position, backward walking, sit-stand, eyes closed.

• Reaction time : e.g. Group games with balls and small equipment, fine motor skills.

• Coordination : e.g. Alternating swings of upper and lower body limbs. Separate upper body movements from lower, left and right brain simultaneously.

  

• Muscle strength : e.g. Exercises for hip abductors, knee extensors, ankle plantar flexion.

• Internal sense of spatial orientation : e.g. Sense of position and movement of limbs and trunk through martial arts practice. Practice of Kata and Tai Chi with differentiated rhythm and speed.