Exercise Therapy

The contribution of movement therapy to the overall treatment concept of the mentally ill is based on the knowledge of the interaction between body and psyche. Psychological experience is expressed on the body level, just as physical experience has an effect on the psyche.

With the help of movement offers we want to encourage the patients to take up relationships with themselves and others. We understand our work as an intervention directed at the psychosomatic process. In doing so, we see and treat the patient holistically in his or her physical, emotional and cognitive characteristics.

Contact

Information

+49 7071 29-86120

+49 7071 29-84883

Management

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Independent action through movement

By experiencing the reality of their body, space and time, patients can experience order and structure. An important aspect here is the call to self-activity. In our treatment sessions, patients are constantly encouraged to find their own movements and thus to act independently. The ability to recognise and implement one's own needs, which has been lost in so many patients, can thus be regained in a creative way.

In addition, in recent years, various studies have demonstrated a variety of positive effects for different psychiatric clinical pictures through increased cardiovascular activity. We make use of this both in our groups - but also in our individual therapeutic offers, in order to support the psycho- and pharmacotherapeutic treatment.

Qualification

Our team consists of employees from different professional groups with additional qualifications in

Concentrative movement therapy KBT
Functional relaxation
Feldenkrais
Progressive muscle relaxation
Qi Gong
Body therapy & body schema therapy
Sports Therapy
Functional movement therapy
Bobath
Manual Therapy
Experiential Therapy
Mindfulness based offers
Exercise Science
Lymphatic Drainage
Therapeutic boxing
Yoga

Therapy

The concept of movement therapy is based on the guidelines of Sophie Krietsch:

Relationship to one's own body
Relationship to space and time
Relationship to things
Relationship to fellow human beings

On this basis, different, specific treatment offers are developed, which are adapted to the respective clinical pictures.
Embedded in the disease-specific treatment program, a weekly meeting takes place in order to design the best possible therapy for each patient in an interdisciplinary exchange with all treating professional groups.

A disease-specific ward group is held at least twice a week for all patients who are able to participate in groups. In addition, there are ward-wide offers in which the patients can gain additional movement experience.

Various running groups
Cane martial arts
Groups / Sports games
Qi Gong
Equipment-supported strength and endurance training

Complementary to group services, we also offer patients the setting of individual therapy. The constant two-way relationship between patient and therapist offers a different framework than group therapy. Here it is usually more possible for the patient to become aware of strengths and weaknesses in their body experience. This is especially useful for patients

who would find participation in a group overwhelming, but for whom movement therapy intervention is already a meaningful measure
who need support to increase drive and daily structure
who need a classical physiotherapeutic treatment due to a somatic diagnosis
who want to try to regulate their emotions better
who can benefit from body schema therapy
who have a somatic or body-therapeutic problem and can benefit from a massage

General psychiatry and psychotherapy with outpatient clinic