Over the past year I’ve had the unique opportunity with Dr. Amy Latimer to help develop and facilitate a really interesting exercise program called Revved Up. As a collaborative effort between Queen’s and Saint Mary’s of the Lake Hospital, Revved Up was designed to help promote physical activity in individuals with mobility impairments including as spinal cord injury, neurodegenerative conditions, spina bifida, and cerebral palsy. Revved Up also fills an important niche, as Kingston has a lack of accessible fitness facilities with qualified individuals to assist those with mobility impairments.
Participants attend Revved Up twice per week, where they are accompanied by a volunteer personal trainer through there individualized workout plan. Just speaking to the participants individually, it is clear that the program is having a positive affect on a multitude of factors.
We will be presenting some initial findings next month at the 4th International State-of-the-art Congress “Rehabilitation: Mobility, Exercise & Sports” in Amsterdam (Kasperavicius, M. L., Latimer, A. E., Hetz, S. P., McColl, M. A., McGuire, M., Smith, K. A preliminary evaluation of a community‐based exercise program for people with mobility impairments) and hope to have a manuscript addressing efficacy of the program submitted within the next few months.
Check out the Revved Up wedsite for more info... http://www.skhs.queensu.ca/revvedup/
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