Elysium Healthcare: The Effect of Physical Exercise Therapy on the Wellbeing and Functioning of Youth at a CYPMHS Low Secure Unit
This article explores how a specialist physical exercise therapy programme improved wellbeing, functioning and engagement for young people.
It also looks at how it can be used as part of enhanced care provision to support a recovery pathway in a CYPMHS low-secure service.
Research has consistently shown that people with mental health conditions experience significant physical health inequalities compared to the general population (Correll et al., 2017; De Hert et al., 2009; Firth et al., 2019). Secure psychiatric hospitals are often considered to exacerbate this inequality due to a multitude of factors, including restricted living space and issues of service user risk and safety (Faulkner et al., 2009; Gorczynski et al., 2013; Rogers et al., 2021).