Special Medical Group

At the Chair of Physical Training and Sport of State Engineering University of Armenia, the students, who, according to medical tests, have health problems, are included special medical groups. The main goal of the instructors working with the special medical groups is to enhance their immunity by means of physical trainings and to eliminate functional deviations disability.
While making up the groups, a student’s wish is taken into account, including his group, days and hours that comply with his schedule, as well as his sex, character of his illnesses and functional abilities of his organism.

They are trained according to the special program worked out for a special medical group. During the trainings, the exercises that fit the student’s illness are carried out. The program includes several stages:
a) a gradual and consistent strengthening and tempering of the organism, enhancing of the level of physical working ability, acguisition of vital applied skills.
b) elimination of the deviations resulting from illnesses.
c) resistibility, quickness, development of strength, smartness, enduarance.
d) acquisition of moving skills.
e) training of the students in doing physical exercises regularly.

During the trainings of the medical groups of primary importance are race and physical exercises. During the trainings various kinds of sport equipment are used – dumb-bells, hoops, volleyball, basketball balls, skipping rores, gymnastic sticks and medicine balls. 

In addition to this, during the trainings the students play basketball, volleyball, table tennis and active games.

A great importance is attached to the control of the students’ health:

a) the number of heart-beats is checked at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the trainings.
b) the acquired abilities are checked in a period of one month.
c) the students undergo medical testing twice per academic year.

The following is taken into account during the test normatives:

1. the students’ attendance
2. knowledge of the theoretical course, at which each student tells about his illness and does the exercises that ward off an illness.
3. checking of the test normatives

The goal of the instructors working with the special medical groups is, by means of simplicity and individuality, as well as restrained amount of work and its gradual increase, not to turn these trainings into medical ones.