Sports Department of CH E.Toulouse
and Association « Sportez-vous-bien ! »
Sports department has been established since 1993, all the adult patients in charge at hospital E. Toulouse can use its services, they can be full time hospitalization patients as well as all other services patients of ours. This department records every year almost 2000 integrations, all activities together.
Lawful context evolving, article 93 of the Law of March 4, 2002, will allow us to organize also this department in associative form and meaning to give it another dimension.
To do so, it is suggested to re-activate our sports association winthin context of article 93.
Goals and organisation :
Purpose of this association is to promote the therapeutic aspect of the cultural and sports activities regarding Mental Health and to start integration and socialization tasks by its direct implication in the social fields and with eventual participation at organisation and management of structures or organizations working towards the same ends.
Sport used as therapeutic mediation, also allows to develope :
1/ Communication and individual and collective meetings, by supporting the relation, the exchange and the opening to the other and the others. The practice of sports initiates with the group life and develops the Community spirit.
2/ The body mobilization: The body moving, coordinated and disciplined while respecting spontaneousness and the individual creativity, regular practice of a sport can support the maturation of the body diagram, to fight against the parcelling out psychotic and to amend apragmatic tendencies.
3/ Competition : Although not being always essential with the exercise of a sport, it often has a justifying important function. It supposes the recognition of the difference, contribute to the control of the aggressive impulses, cause the surpassing of oneself while reinforcing the own regard sometimes. But the situation of competition is not always compatible of start
with certain mental pathologies...
4/ Playing activities : Game pleasure forms integral part of the sporting practice while supporting, creativity and initiatives.
5/ Socialization : For some patients, long time hospitalized or even desocialized, sport offers opportunity for an opening on the social field likely to forecast of a going beyond of mental statute of patient.