After instructions from the Biarritz leaders of the Archers de la Humade, and the determination of their dominant eye, the patients tried their hand at target archery. Without apprehension for Olivier. “I haven’t held a bow since I was a teenager, but it’s a meaningful activity,” he admits. This audience is not, a priori, the most sporty, like Jean-Yves, who “walks a lot, but that’s all”.
This program aims to promote the practice of supervised physical activity among medically monitored beneficiaries, by creating bridges between prescribing doctors, health sports players and patients.
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“It’s real life”
This program above all creates a link between the beneficiaries, if we are to believe the sports doctor Benjamin Laffourcade, member of Initial santé, patron of the Aviron Bayonnais Endowment Fund. “In addition to the physical benefit, which no longer needs to be demonstrated, physical activity has benefits when you suffer from chronic illnesses,” he says, “there is also and above all a real social bond between these people, who have diabetes, a blocked artery or are undergoing chemotherapy; they meet around the practice of healthy sports, exchange, with professionals, there is no judgment, it’s real life. »
Six activities proposed
Health in motion is structured around six activities organized in connection with sporting events. The next stages of the program are walking rugby at the AB Campus, with Aviron Bayonnais players, in April; rowing on the Nive, with Perle Bouge, para-rowing world champion, in May; from Longe-Côte to Hendaye or Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in June; boxotherapy at the Belascain stadium, with Marie-Pierre Barthe Sadran, referee at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in July; hiking at La Rhune in August; and finally cycling on the banks of the Nive, in September.
“This system aims to make adapted physical activity a real health reflex, by mobilizing doctors, beneficiaries, associations around the same ambition,” explains Gérard Bafcop, president of Maison Sport santé Nivadour. Over a period of six months, this program aims to facilitate the transition from prescription to sports practice and to create a lasting link between patients with chronic illnesses, caregivers and health sports stakeholders in the region. »
Each of these days will bring together a group of 10 to 15 beneficiaries and relies on the presence of high-level athletes to embody the dynamic.
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