Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/rehabilitation.1.005
STARTTS Capoeira Angola Project Bantu: Combining Alternative Therapeutic Intervention with Sport for Traumatized Young Refugees: On the Way to Recovery
Shakeh Momartin1,*, Edielson Da Silva Miranda (Mestre Roxinho)1, Jorge Aroche1, Ansuya Naguran1, Abhinandan Emmadi1, Mariano Coello1
- 1Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS), New South Wales, Australia
Corresponding Author
Shakeh Momartin, shakeh.momartin@health.nsw.gov.au
Received Date: October 10, 2019
Accepted Date: November 11, 2019
Momartin S, Da Silva Miranda E, Aroche J, Naguran A, Emmadi A, Coello M. STARTTS Capoeira Angola Project Bantu: Combining Alternative Therapeutic Intervention with Sport for Traumatized Young Refugees: On the Way to Recovery. J Phys Med Rehabil. 2019; 1(1):15-17.
Copyright: © 2019 Momartin S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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