The Technology Making Fitness More Accessible
Conventional fitness advice encourages people to move more, sit less, take 10,000 steps a day. But this advice marginalizes an entire community of people with disabilities who move differently. In this panel, we’ll explore the tools and technology helping people of various abilities achieve their fitness goals, including wheelchairs designed for hiking, treadmills designed to measure wheelchair pushing distance and other advancements in adaptive sports. We’ll also examine the challenges and obstacles still making fitness inaccessible for people with disabilities and highlight the advocates and organizations working to make a lasting difference.
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Dan Ding
Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh
Sarah Klein
LIVESTRONG.COM
James Norris
Handi Capable Fitness