by Dan Williams | Sep 17, 2022 | Blogs, Exercise, Health, Individuals with a disability, Kids, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, NDIS
Providing Exercise Physiology services for teenagers on the NDIS, there is one key focus that pay dividends again and again. Neutral spine. But what is ‘neutral spine’? What does it mean, and why is it so important for teens on the NDIS? ‘Neutral spine’ is basically...
by Dan Williams | Jul 23, 2022 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Individuals with a disability, Musculo-skeletal Rehabilitation, NDIS, Programming
While we realise there is a huge range of abilities for NDIS participants, we’ve created a ‘top seven’ list for exercise we think they should build towards. Of course, there needs to be a huge degree of individualisation and variation to suit the unique needs of the...
by Dan Williams | Jun 27, 2022 | Blogs, Chronic Conditions, Exercise, Exercise Philosophies, Health, Individuals with a disability, NDIS, Psychology
We can raise our expectations around what NDIS participants are able to achieve when it comes to exercise. All too often as fitness professionals, we can have the tendency to pigeonhole NDIS participants, and believe that their physical potential is less than it...
by Dan Williams | Nov 6, 2021 | Blogs, Health, Individuals with a disability, NDIS
Asking the most important type of exercise for individuals living with a disability needs a very individualised answer. Regardless of the type of disability, there’s one very important factor to remember. Whatever exercise someone is doing, it needs to directly...
by Dan Williams | Nov 1, 2021 | Blogs, Individuals with a disability, NDIS
There’s a fine line when designing exercise programs for people living with a disability. It’s a balancing act our Exercise Physiologist are are constantly working on with our clients at Range of Motion. On one hand, we need to make sure the exercise is...
by Dan Williams | Oct 24, 2021 | Blogs, Individuals with a disability, NDIS
If you, or someone who love is living with autism, cerebral palsy, spinal cord or brain injury, intellectual disability, down syndrome, hypermobility or low muscle tone, there may be an important exercise tool you haven’t tried. It’s called a weighted sled (sometimes...
