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Sports Therapy

What is sports therapy?
Sport and exercise therapy involves medically recommended movements with behaviourally oriented components that are planned, prescribed, and coordinated by a team of physicians and therapists of different specialties and carried out with the patient in a group or individual setting.
The aim is to improve physical, psychological, and psychosocial impairment associated with everyday, leisure, and work activities as well as preventing injuries and risk factors by means of appropriate sports, exercise, and behavioural orientation.
Sports and exercise therapy are based on scientific medical, fitness, exercise, and, in particular, educational-psychological and sociotherapeutic elements (German Society for Healthy Sport and Sports Therapy, 2010).

Mechanisms of Action of Sports Therapy:

• Learning and practicing appropriate motor skills (sensorimotor learning-goal level): ACTIONS
• Training of motor skills such as strength, endurance, flexibility, and coordination  (motor learning-goal level): ACTIONS
• Providing information and knowledge as the basis for independent and long-term health-related behavioural and social competence (cognitive learning-goal level): KNOWLEDGE
• Creating long-term motivation to perform an individual exercise programme and to achieve a physically active life-style (affective und educational learning-goal level):  EMOTION

By definition, sports therapy entails comprehensive activation of the patient with regard to his or her patterns of movement. It is thus a form of active treatment that is an integral part of the multimodal therapeutic concept of the Nottwil Pain Centre. The aim is to establish extensive, enduring health competence in the form of long-term behavioural changes by the patient. Patients with chronic pain can learn to remain physically active despite their pain during daily life and leisure activities. Sports therapy may take place in groups, but also in individual sessions with the therapist. During the initial evaluation, patients are informed as to the possible training programs and methods; they can also be directly referred to existing groups by their physicians or therapists.