1) Sports and recreational activities can have physical and mental health benefits such as reducing cancer risk, boosting the immune system, maintaining a healthy weight, lowering blood pressure, and promoting longevity. 2) Participating in sports is especially important for those with disabilities as it can aid in physical rehabilitation and social reintegration. There are organized sports leagues for athletes with physical, intellectual and sensory disabilities. 3) Major international disability sports events include the Paralympics, Deaflympics, Special Olympics, and Commonwealth Games which have included para-sports competitions. There are also national and international forums that promote disability sports.

1. Games & recreational
activity…. For PHCs
Dr Saim Ali Soomro.
Deputy Director (PHC).

2. • Physical activity can be classed as many forms: exercise, sport, physical fitness
and being active to name a few. The most appropriate definition is that from
the Council of Europes European Sports Charter 1993,
• Sport means all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised
participation aim at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-
being forming social relationships or obtaining results in competition at all
levels.'
• It has been well published that the Government has been encouraging the UK
population to become more active. There are recommended levels of physical
activity for both men and women which can have positive benefits on
everyday life. These benefits include:reduce the overall risk of cancer
• boost the immune system
• in combination with a balanced diet, help to maintain a healthy weight
(Nearly 7 out of 10 men and 6 in 10 women in the UK are overweight or
obese according to the National Audit Office (NAO)) 1
• lower high blood pressure - reducing the risk of developing heart disease
• promote healthy blood sugar levels to prevent or control diabetes
• evidence suggests that active people live a longer life-(Achieving the
recommended levels of moderate intensity physical activity can reduce
premature mortality by between 20-30%). 2
• provides natural pain relief

3. What value Sports Has ???
• While sport has value in everyone's life, it is even more important in
the life of a person with a disability. This is because of the
rehabilitative influence sport can have not only on the physical body
but also on rehabilitating people with a disability into society.
Furthermore, sport teaches independence. Nowadays, people with a
disability participate in high performance as well as in competitive
and recreational sport.
• The number of people with disabilities involved in sport and physical
recreation is steadily increasing around the world with organized
sports for athletes with disabilities divided into three main disability
groups, sports for the deaf, sports for persons with physical
disabilities, and sports for persons with intellectual disabilities.
• Now various national & International Forums available for disabled
Sports.(Physically Handicapped).
http://www.disabled-world.com/sports/#ixzz2K7zvIC9f

4. Disability Sports Forums
• Major disability sporting events include:
• Paralympic Games - A multi-sport event for athletes with physical, mental and
sensorial disabilities. This includes mobility disabilities, amputees, visual
disabilities and those with cerebral palsy. The Paralympic Games are held every
four years, following the Olympic Games, and are governed by the International
Paralympic Committee.
• Deaflympics - The Summer and Winter Deaflympics are among the world's fastest
growing sports events.
• Special Olympics - The global Special Olympics movement got its start on 20 July
1968, when the First International Special Olympics Games were held at Soldier
Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA. But the concept of Special Olympics was born much
earlier, when Eunice Kennedy Shriver started a day camp for people with
intellectual disabilities at her home in 1962.
• Disability Commonwealth Games - For the first time in the Games history a
number of Para-Sports were included in a fully inclusive Sports Program in
Manchester 2002 when 20 countries sent both male and female elite athletes with
a disability to compete in 10 events across 5 different Para-Sports; Athletics, Lawn
Bowls, Swimming, Table Tennis and Weightlifting. “The Commonwealth has always
said it wants to play a lead role in social issues,” says Stead ward, who is president
of the International Paralympics Committee. “What better way than by becoming
the first major sports competition to integrate athletes with disabilities?”
•
Citation: Disabled World News - News and information pertaining to disability sports including paralympics and disabilities sporting events for disabled: http://www.disabled-
world.com/sports/#ixzz2K84b7np1

5. Sports for PHCs

6. Why is Recreation, Leisure, Hobbies
necessary…!!!!
• Human is a Social animal.
• Every one has a hobby to pass his times and keep him
self at peace with in.
• There are many types of sports & recreational activities
one can learn himself, play alone or in teams. From
stamp collection to Music listening, going to movies,
book reading to Bird watching, fishing, computer
games, puzzle solving, there are 100 & thousands of
such Hobbies & recreational activities.
• They help one to build his personality in child hood and
a better citizen in adult hood.

7. Role of Games……..
• Games can be..Physical, mental, Indoor & out
Door, traditional or Modern , Table games or
Board games, team games or individual
sports. etc, etc..
• There is a new class of games since last one or
two decades, they are Computer based
educational or recreational games……!

8. Physical sports
• Board games: like Chess, Ludo, Kror pati,
• Indoor Physical games: Table tennis,
Badminton, indoor basket ball(wheel chair)
• Paralympic sports:
Special Olympics
Deaf sports
Other Disability Sports
Extremity Games
Alpine skiing
Archery
Athletics
*Basketball ID
Boccia
*Bowls
*Cue sports
Cycling
Equestrian
Football 5-a-Side
Football 7-a-Side
Goalball
Ice sledge hockey
*Ice sledge racing
Judo
*Nine-pin bowling
Nordic Skiing
Powerlifting
Sailing
Shooting
*Showdown
Swimming
Table tennis
*Ten-pin bowling
Tennis
*Torball
Volleyball
Wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair curling
*Wheelchair dance sport
Wheelchair fencing
Wheelchair rugby
Wheelchair tennis

9. List of games at International forums
ct….
• Special Olympics:
• Alpine skiing
Aquatics
Athletics
Badminton
Basketball
Bocce
Bowling
Cycling
Equestrian
Figure skating
Floor hockey
Football
Golf
Gymnastics
Powerlifting
Roller skating
Sailing
Snowboarding
Snowshoeing
Softball
Short track speed skating
Table tennis
Team handball
Tennis
Volleyball
Wheelchair baseball
Wheelchair hockey
Wheelchair rugby
Wheelchair skateboarding

10. Computer Based games
• Since last 20 years or more, PCs has enter in to
our lives, at every step. We can take every
help from a Desktop, only imagination is the
limit…..u can play board games like chess,
ludo, snookers, cricket, foot ball , indoors or
out door games on a small monitor or smart
phone screens..but u can use it as educational
games tool too..!

11. Games for All
Types of
disability
Game scene Note
Visually
impaired
People
• Goalball
Brain
lesions
• Boccia
Physically
challenged
people
• Sitting
Volleyball
•Wheelchair
Basketball

12. ThankYou