A Directory Of Ideas To Help Improve Your Physical Fitness
Maintaining a good level of physical fitness can be a challenge for anyone, whether living with a disability or not. Because of the toll some disabilities can take on the body, it can be even more important to try to attain better fitness to improve longer term survival rates, or even more a healthier frame of mind to deal with special challenges.Some disabilities require adaptive exercise regimes customized to the abilities of each individual. For that reason, we're constantly compiling a collection of ideas, philosophies and techniques from various sources to give you a broad menu of fitness options to choose from that are right for your needs and goals.
It's also very important to consult with your own medical professionals to make them part of your fitness 'team' before starting any exercise program so that you don't exceed safe and common sense parameters for your fitness needs.
Please visit this section often as it grows over time into what we hope will be a very useful resource for you to consult in evaluating, setting and achieving your fitness needs and goals.
HEADLINES Even for the paralyzed, exercise is needed to optimize new treatments _____________________________ New fitness center for deaf-blind Best exercises for wheelchair-bound Making fitness centers accessible  | EXERCISES  Former Navy Seal Stew Smith has a fitness plan for those with limits _____________________________ Adaptive Aerobics: The best movements to use The worst movements to avoid | VIDEOS  Leslie Nesbitt has tips for those who experience neck pain from sitting _____________________________ Earlier ICU exercise is healthier How to play wheelchair basketball Spinal chord injury exercises |
