"We give people with disabilities a chance to feel the winners"

Natalya Belogolovtseva is the founder of the program of comprehensive rehabilitation of the personality “Dream League”. The program is intended for children and adults with cerebral palsy, autistic spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, visual impairments, hearing and other health features. One of the main methods used is rehabilitation with skiing. Natalya told the magazine “Future” about how this technique appeared and what results it gives, how they prepare instructors, why they are not enough, as well as a lot of another.

- Why exactly skiing? Is this sport especially effective for rehabilitation of people with disabilities?

- Yes, for several reasons at once. Complex sports that require coordinated work of the whole body include its physical memory. The body takes a physiologically correct position - a vertical one, because we are people who are straightforward creatures, sitting in a wheelchair for a long time, and in principle to sit for a long time, is harmful to absolutely everyone. All organs and body systems - blood circulation, lymph flow and so on - begin to work better. In addition, in skiing, how few in some other, a person feels a winner, which is very important. We give people with disabilities a chance for this.

I emphasize that at the same time all training is under the guidance of the instructors we prepared. For people with engine problems, a special ski frame is used - a slider; In addition, not one instructor helps such people, but two.

The results are impressive: before my eyes, children with a complex form of cerebral palsy began to stand on their own and even walk, silent guys with races - to talk and show emotions, and children with Down syndrome learned concentration and not only. One such child - it was a year ago at the resort "Rosa Khutor" - at first shouted, stomped his feet and tore off his helmet. And two weeks later, his relatives sent me a video where he himself is skiing, he listens to the instructor, and even sings songs.

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