The UGECAM regional center for physical medicine and rehabilitation in Herbiers de Bois-Guillaume, near Rouen (Seine-Maritime), organized a meeting between patients and para-athletes this Tuesday, November 12. With a message: it is possible to rebuild yourself through sport.
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“Sport really helped me, that, I can say, it really saved my life“, confides Brigitte Duboc. Nothing predestined her for high-level competition. However, when the fifty-year-old replaced a friend from her club at short notice in 2013 in Bangkok, she won the title of world champion in para shooting. arc Becoming a model for many patients.
Brigitte Duboc meets patients from Les Herbiers.
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At the Herbiers, the exchanges are provided, the testimonies strong. David Gustin is in rehabilitation there after a stroke. His vital prognosis was in jeopardy. Today, he is hemiplegic on the left, and practices para archery by shooting with his mouth.
Coached by Brigitte Duboc, the one who is aiming for the next Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, in 2028, is delighted to benefit “crazy supervision” : “she gives me a lot of her time, a lot of love, and I want to return it.”
Alexis Hanquinquant, barely recovered from his accident, was already aiming for the Paralympics.
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Another remarkable career, that of Alexis Hanquinquant. The Yvetotais recounts the serious work accident he suffered in 2010, on a construction site: “I make the decision to have an amputation. I’m going to have this completely crazy dream of making the Paralympic Games. I haven’t tried a single prosthesis and I tell my wife that I’m going to do the Games. She tells me to come back to Earth!“
Sophie Levitre shares her emotion at finally meeting Alexis Hanquinquant, also re-educated at Les Herbiers at the time of his accident.
I wanted to see the famous Alexis, he was in our unit, unit 300! We call it the unity of missing parts.
What she lacks is the use of her wrist. Thanks to Brigitte Duboc – again – she returned to sport eight months ago. Because the athlete regularly performs at Les Herbiers.
Pascaline Godin, director of the center, is delighted: “It is also a rehabilitation and reintegration center. We have a team of adapted sports teachers. It is quite substantial. They have our patients try a lot of sports, around thirty, throughout the year.“
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Meeting “Athletes, patients, caregivers”
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And as the director says, some of the athletes who passed through the center would never have imagined one day that they would win a medal in a Paralympic competition!
