Rehab drug addiction, he prescribes exercise for drug addicts

Network anchor Liu Genghong’s dynamic shuttlecock exercise set off a national fitness boom. In Beijing Tiantanghe Compulsory Isolation Drug Rehabilitation Center, there is also a drug addiction expert like Liu Genghong who is obsessed with sports. He applies sports and fitness methods to drug rehabilitation treatment. He is Xu Kaiyang, deputy director of the rehabilitation training center.

The 31-year-old Xu Kaiyang graduated from Beijing Sport University with a major in Applied Psychology (Sports Psychology). A variety of rehabilitation training methods such as sexual aerobic exercise help drug addicts recover their physical functions, build up drug addiction confidence, and cultivate a healthy lifestyle. He has exchanged experience on the application and research of rehabilitation training in drug treatment management in the judicial administration drug treatment system for many times, and has been awarded the title of an expert in education and correction (sports rehabilitation) by the Ministry of Justice for two consecutive years.

In 2018, the Ministry of Justice began to fully implement a unified drug rehabilitation model. As the person in charge of the rehabilitation training center, Xu Kaiyang spent two-thirds of the time in the establishment of the national unified drug rehabilitation model demonstration center for two-thirds of the time. He collects, organizes and analyzes it himself.

In 2019, Paradise River Rehabilitation Center became one of the first batch of sports drug rehabilitation pilot units of the Drug Rehabilitation Administration of the Ministry of Justice. Led the team to complete the implementation of the pilot project “Research on the Substitution Effect of Incremental Load Resistance Training on Addictive Behaviors”. He creatively applied the combination of traditional Tai Chi and modern fitness methods to drug addiction treatment. He and his team spent more than 450 class hours of exercise intervention and more than 1,000 tests for two years, making the intervention of more than 400 drug addicts physical The fitness has increased by 29.8%, the motivation for detoxification has increased by 30%, the mental health level has been improved by 100%, and the relapse rate has been reduced by 20%. After returning to society, some drug addicts also engaged in sports and fitness related work, truly “replacing drug addiction with sports addiction”.

In 2020, Xu Kaiyang led the team to actively study rehabilitation training methods under the epidemic prevention and control mode. In order to alleviate the negative impact of the closure of the place on the mood of drug addicts, he compiled exercises such as “sedentary relaxation exercises” and “healthy lungs and nourishing heart exercises” that are in line with the physical and mental characteristics of drug addicts, can relieve tension, and improve immunity. .

As a subject leader born in the 1990s, Xu Kaiyang also actively sought advice from teachers and classmates in the university, used what he had learned to make bold attempts, and learned from the experience of the national physique monitoring system, leading the introduction and development of suitable The sports rehabilitation management system for drug addicts, along with the establishment of an exercise prescription library for drug addicts, realizes the intelligence of the whole process of evaluating the physical fitness and physical function of drug addicts, and greatly improves the work efficiency of sports rehabilitation. As a typical case of introducing information technology into the daily management of drug addicts, the system has been promoted nationwide by the Drug Rehabilitation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice.

Xu Kaiyang not only helps drug addicts experience the joy and pleasure brought by sports, but also enables them to improve their confidence and efficacy in drug rehabilitation from the inside out, and become more effective. “Drug addiction” is “kinetic energy” to achieve positive changes in life.

Source: Beijing Daily Client reporter Sun Ying

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