Health and Wellness/Prevention

• Physical Activity & Independent Living: What's the Connection?
• Spinal Cord Injury/Anesthesia Pain Clinic
• Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury
• Healthy Living: Benefits of Physical Activity
• Spinal Cord Injuries & Weight Gain/Obesity/Loss
• FACT SHEET: Health, Wellness, & Disability: Perspectives of Persons with Disability
• Changing Toward a Healthier Lifestyle
• Gait Rehabilitation . . .One Step at a Time

Starting an exercise program can be intimidating for anyone. If you add having a spinal cord injury to it, getting started can be even more difficult. Fortunately, it does not have to be that way. With a little bit of knowledge and motivation, you can start an exercise program to help you get back into the game of life and feel better about it. In this town hall meeting we will discuss how individuals with a spinal cord injury:

Benefits of exercise

Changes that occur in the body with exercise

Various Types of exercise and their benefits

How to get started and stick with an exercise program

Matt Elrod and Alison Lichy presented a Web cast on these issues on November 17, 2004. To hear the entire Web cast (or read the transcript) click here. (http://ilru.org/online/archive/2004/11-17-ME.html)

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