"If I fall, as far as the ground," jokes the Donostia Oskar Redondo, 31, his exceptional sense of humor. A talk with him forget their diagnosis: behavioral disturbances, language, memory and physical. Need a wheelchair to walk down the street, but inside, walking with crutches. The reason, struck on the head in a car accident twelve years ago. "And the more years pass, the better."
Head trauma is a cause Acquired Brain Injury main, the name given to the injury in previously healthy persons of the most important organ of the body that coordinates all the others. The other is stroke or stroke, the leading cause of death among women and second in men.
Many people survive these events with consequences that vary depending on the area of \u200b\u200bbrain damage. It can affect mobility, senses, communication, intelligence, attention, memory, emotions and behavior. Epidemiologist Javier Sea has been estimated that some 11,000 Basques are disabled at present by the DCA. Oskar is
user
Day Centre for people with Acquired Brain Injury Foundation which manages Menni Aita Donostia since 2002, as Felix and David, who passed it phenomenal playing Boccia. Launch their ball, the blue one, red the other, as close as possible to the white. Paralympic sport, with strict rules, is a kind of bowls. "No joke is worth the opponent or get nervous," warned the director of the resource, Iñigo Urrutia.
Day Centre for people with Acquired Brain Injury Foundation which manages Menni Aita Donostia since 2002, as Felix and David, who passed it phenomenal playing Boccia. Launch their ball, the blue one, red the other, as close as possible to the white. Paralympic sport, with strict rules, is a kind of bowls. "No joke is worth the opponent or get nervous," warned the director of the resource, Iñigo Urrutia.
Felix and David are prepared at more than fifty other disabled athletes, for a day of sports adapted to be held in Bilbao today at the Brain Injury Aquiro Day. The event is organized by the Provincial Government of Biscay, Aita Menni Hospital and the Association of ATEC patients and their families, with an office also in Gipuzkoa.
None of the users of the center of San Sebastian is federated in adapted sport. "We do a special activity to motivate, encourage," says Urrutia. And the therapist, Arantzazu Alvarez, added: "Sport is good for everyone. In this case, for these people, I used to know how to behave to a standard for learning and memory, and physically, for strength and coordination. " But so far "had left a little side sport for them," he laments.
In another room of the center, Jesus, Iban, Oskar, David, and Peio Ainara play balloon volleyball, some standing and others sitting in wheelchairs. They "hours of training, but here is something more participatory. In Bilbao we will win, "he says with a smile Arantzazu. The sign says stay chairs Aupa Aita Menni. Donostia aurrera . From here go to Bilbao five practitioners of Boccia and six volleyball adapted.
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Published www.diariovasco.com (26/10/2009)
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