The Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Unit at the College of Physical Education and Sports Science for Girls, University of Baghdad, organized a rehabilitation workshop entitled (Basics of Swimming, Learning, Rescue, Diving) presented by Prof. Dr. Mawahib Hamid Al-Jubouri.
Dr. Al-Jubouri explained the concept of rescue swimming, which consists of skills including launching, then descending into the water, performing an approaching movement, holding the drowning person in the correct manner, controlling him, and taking him to safety. Swimming type are freestyle, backstroke, side swimming, and butterfly swimming, explaining the causes of drowning if one is unable to swim, Fear, a person’s lack of awareness of the surrounding circumstances, inability to get rid of dangerous situations, lack of knowledge of how to rescue people who are trying to save others, swimming in fast currents, high self-confidence, swimming in storms, individual swimming over long distances, diving in unsafe areas, swimming distances beyond physical capabilities, swimming in places not supervised by lifeguards, and not asking for help when real help is needed.
She referred to the ways and methods of rescue, including if the drowning person is close to the edge of the pelvis, it is possible to lie on the stomach, then extend one arm to the drowning person and the other hand holds the edge of the pelvis, holding the drowning person from the chest, holding the drowning person under the armpit, rescuing by holding the palate, rescuing by holding the shoulder, and rescuing with a back grab.
She also described first aid methods, which include removing the drowning person and placing him on the ground to begin disposing of the drowning person’s clothes, then removing the water that the drowning person swallowed by placing him lying on his stomach with the arms next to the head, and artificial respiration.
This workshop achieves one of the sustainable development goals represented by the fourth goal: quality education.
The Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Unit at the College of Physical Education and Sports Science for Girls, University of Baghdad, organized a rehabilitation workshop entitled (Basics of Swimming, Learning, Rescue, Diving) presented by Prof. Dr. Mawahib Hamid Al-Jubouri.
Dr. Al-Jubouri explained the concept of rescue swimming, which consists of skills including launching, then descending into the water, performing an approaching movement, holding the drowning person in the correct manner, controlling him, and taking him to safety. Swimming type are freestyle, backstroke, side swimming, and butterfly swimming, explaining the causes of drowning if one is unable to swim, Fear, a person’s lack of awareness of the surrounding circumstances, inability to get rid of dangerous situations, lack of knowledge of how to rescue people who are trying to save others, swimming in fast currents, high self-confidence, swimming in storms, individual swimming over long distances, diving in unsafe areas, swimming distances beyond physical capabilities, swimming in places not supervised by lifeguards, and not asking for help when real help is needed.
She referred to the ways and methods of rescue, including if the drowning person is close to the edge of the pelvis, it is possible to lie on the stomach, then extend one arm to the drowning person and the other hand holds the edge of the pelvis, holding the drowning person from the chest, holding the drowning person under the armpit, rescuing by holding the palate, rescuing by holding the shoulder, and rescuing with a back grab.
She also described first aid methods, which include removing the drowning person and placing him on the ground to begin disposing of the drowning person’s clothes, then removing the water that the drowning person swallowed by placing him lying on his stomach with the arms next to the head, and artificial respiration.
This workshop achieves one of the sustainable development goals represented by the fourth goal: quality education.
