Recreation Therapy
Use the activities you love to rebuild skills and confidence after an injury, stroke or other life change. Together we'll develop a plan to improve your quality of life.
Community Reintegration
Developing the skills and confidence to return to the activities in the community you enjoy doing.
Group activity
Learning about what is important to you can be assessed individually or in a group. These women are reminiscing via a game and identifying why various activities have made them meaningful. For some it was the people they were with - others it was the challenge or competition.
Getting back to Nature
Sometimes it's some Vitamin N (Nature) that is part of the healing, but supports are needed to build skills and/or confidence.
Adapted fitness. Get moving
What is RecreationTherapy anyway? After I find out a bit about you and what you want to be able to do, I work with you to develop a plan that will use a combination of treatment, education, and recreation services to develop or enhance your functional abilities, independence, and quality of life. Here are some scenarios of what this might look like:
- An illness or disability has affected your ability to engage in the activities you were doing that connected you with others, expressed your creativitiy, exercised your body, stimulated your mind, allowed you to compete, and/or another important aspect of yourself. We’ll assess where you are at now and what your needs, wants, and barriers are. Plans may include:
- Breaking down tasks to re-learn or modify areas needed e.g., gardening, crafts, woodworking
- Exploring ways to get back to what you love: e.g., fishing, exercising, eating out, competing.
- Support to give it a go and build confidence
- Retiring or reaching a stage in your life where you’ve lost that abiility to do what you feel is meaningful and joyful. You know there is more to life you just need a bit of support to help you find it. We’ll explore your why, help you find meaning, and, of course, and build your confidence to do the things you enjoy.
Would you or someone you care for benefit from some Recreation Therapy? Let’s set up a FREE initial chat.
Below are benefits that may be derived from various therapeutic recreation interventions:
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Involvement in TR reduces cardiovascular and respiratory risk
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Involvement in TR reduces the risk of physical complications secondary to disability
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Involvement in TR improves general physical and perceptual motor function of individuals with disabilities
- Involvement in TR reduces depression
- Involvement in TR reduces anxiety
- Involvement in TR improves coping behaviour
- Involvement in TR reduces stress level
- Involvement in TR increases self-esteem, self-concept, and adjustment to disability
- Involvement in TR improves general psychological health
- Involvement in TR improves social skills, socialisation, cooperation and interpersonal interactions
- Involvement in TR reduces self-abusive and inappropriate behaviours
- Involvement in TR impacts attitudes toward peers with disabilities
- Involvement in TR increased self-confidence and personal recreation interests
- Involvement in TR assists in appropriate participant behaviour
- Involvement in TR positively influences leisure participation and patterns of participation
- Involvement in TR assists in discretionary time usage
- Involvement in TR improves independent leisure functioning
- Involvement in TR was perceived as a positive means for promoting overall quality of family life and helping family members develop life-long skills and values
- Involvement in TR contributed to functional skill development
- Involvement in TR assisted caregivers in "escape" and freedom
- Involvement in TR facilitated quality visits and the development of social support
- Involvement in TR provided caregivers with links to community services
- Improved attendance
- Enhanced quality of life
- Decreased co-dependency
- Improved health
- Better attitudes
- Improved conpetence
- Enhanced ability to perfrom Activities of Daily Living
- Positive behaviour change