Welcome to Enabling Movement Foundation
Helping the disabled move and improve life quality
thru adaptive technology
Welcome to Enabling Movement Foundation
Helping the disabled move and improve life quality
thru adaptive technology
Overhead Equipment to Enhance Movement
About Us
Get Involved
Are you passionate about what we're doing? Let us know! We are always looking for volunteers to help us make our vision a reality. We'll help you find a way to volunteer that best suits you. We're excited to have you join the team!
How We're Helping
Exercise and movement can induce changes at the cellular level that can improve our health and well-being. While there are a plethora of movement environments available to the able bodied individual, the disabled population is dependent for access to enriched environments, with limited choices. Enabling Movement Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit foundation created to help raise money towards construction, overhead, maintenance to open and sustain an adaptive recreational facility for the disabled population. In addition, our purpose is to assist in the procurement of adaptive equipment for disabled to enable movement and independence. Please help support our mission through your donations of time and money. Together, we can make a difference.
Movement is:
- Paramount to health and well being
- Building block of perception and learning.
- Promotes healthy gene expression and unhealthy gene repression.
- Exercise can reset the aging time clock (Shields, 2017).
Immobility
- Cascades a series of secondary complications i.e. range of motion decreases, muscle weakness occurs.
- Coupled with chronological aging, can exponentially escalate impairments.
Aging
- Evidence suggests that able-bodied function declines with age and immobility.
- Imagine the detrimental effect for the disabled population, where they are already faced with a medical diagnoses preventing mobility.
"Regular movement and daily exercise is not readily accessible to all populations. The disabled need specialized adaptive tools to make daily exercise more accessible to them".
Traditional Adaptive Recreation
- Modifies the nature of the activity in order for the disabled to participate in the recreation. For example, if the disabled individual does not have adequate strength to walk, then he/she is able to participate in the activity using a wheelchair
- The participant is not getting the same joint movements as the able-bodied participant and not able to reap the physiological benefits of those movements.
- The participant continues to be subject to some of the debilitating secondary conditions, such as joint contractures, bone density concerns etc.
Our Adaptive Recreation Concept
- Allows the disabled to participate in recreation and movement just as the able-bodied participates in that recreation
- The nature of the activity is not altered.
- The individual is able to participate in the same movements by utilizing assistive technology in place of muscle weakness and limb impairment
“TRUE” movement participation vs. wheelchair dependent participation thru assistive technology
total gym access via over head lift networks and partial weight bearing mechanisms.
Partial weightbearing can offer:
- Sit-to-stand assist
- Safe gait assist
Specialized equipment – whole body vibration, standing frames, gait trainers, sophisticated switch activated mechanisms
Thru specialized assistive technology, our concept empowers the disabled to take charge of their health and well being without being completely dependent on others to assist.
Amenities desired in our adaptive center
- Partial weight bearing access everywhere via overhead tracking – equipment, hallways, bathroom.
- Full automation of environment controls ;i.e. switch activation to control equipment and environment.
- Specialized Adaptive equipment to make impaired limbs able to exercise to their fullest potential;
- Virtual reality room with fun activities adapted to all disabilities to encourage active movement.
- Research platform to record usage and store in database for future evidence generation.
- Physiological monitoring equipment for vitals.
- Much Much More
Diagnoses served
- Cerebral Palsy
- Spina Bifida
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Stroke
- Autism
- ETC, ETC ETC
All Ages Served
- Pediatric
- Adult
- Geriatric
Exercise Statistics
- Reduces mortality and risk of recurrent breast cancer by 50%
- Reduces the risk of developing Alzheimers disease by 40%
- Lowers the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure by 40%
- Decreases the risk of stroke by 27%
- Decreases diabetes Type II development by 58%
- Decreases depression
- Leads to higher academic performance in children and adults
Enabling Movement Critical
- Exercise is the strongest medicine against so many conditions that we are faced with in our journey of life: i.e., aging, depression, pain, strength and range of motion declines
- With exercise, we are at decreased risk for developing diseases and have decreased complications to acquired diseases.
ENABLING MOVEMENT FOUNDATION
Helping the disabled move and improve life quality with adaptive technology
Thank You
Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you.