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Top Three Exercises for Traumatic Brain Injury
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) need not keep you from enjoying the benefits of exercise. Exercise can help TBI patients improve focus, mood, and blood flow to the brain, among other things. These three exercises can help.
Aerobic Exercise Following a Brain Injury
Exercising is important for everyone, but what about brain injury patients? As long as your doctor gives the thumbs up, exercise will be critical in your recovery. Here are some tips for TBI patients.
Exercise and Traumatic Brain Injury
From accelerating nerve impulse speed to improving balance, people with traumatic brain injury benefit enormously from exercise.
Exercising with Cerebral Palsy: the Workout
Check out these five exercises for people living with cerebral palsy. These exercises can be part of a physical therapy routine, and include some wheelchair exercises. Tips include a warm up and cool down for these exercises for cerebral palsy.
Disability can lead to chronic pain, often brought on by sitting in one position in your wheelchair for too long. These seven simple stretches reduce stress and relax tensed muscles. Feel better in only a couple of minutes!
Benefits of Exercise for People with Disabilities
So you thought exercise for people with disabilities was just for stamina and strength? There's a third additional improvement that you might not expect, even though it could well be the most important.
Wheelchair Accessible Family Friendly Exercises
You'd like to do an accessible workout with your whole family, but how does being in a wheelchair fit in with the exercise routine? Find out how to incorporate wheelchair accessible exercises that everyone in your family can do.
Wheelchair User? How to Avoid Sore Shoulders
Wheelchair users commonly complain of shoulder joint pain. To avoid sore shoulders, you have to increase muscle strength and flexibility. Here are three simple exercises to get you rolling without the ouch factor.
Have a Ball! Part Three: Total Body Workout
People with disabilities need a total body workout to improve strength and flexibility from head to toe. Here's a workout that really works, and all you need is an exercise ball and a little floor space.
Have a Ball! Part Two: Core/Stability Exercises
Even if you have a spinal cord injury, you can do the first section of these exercises with a ball designed to increase strength in your core, or torso. The second section is designed for those with at least some leg movement
