Wendi Paterson Inspiration Award – November
For this month’s Wendi Paterson Award winners, we’d like to acknowledge not two individuals but rather two community groups who embody our “UPYourFitness” mantra: Ryde Community Co-op Inc. and Bayfield Urban Poling. Ryde Community Co-op is a not-for-profit organization which fosters local wellbeing and improvement by offering various programs and services–one being Urban Poling. President of […]
Getting Active at Every Age and Stage Webinar – Instructors
Getting Active at Every Age and Stage With a shocking 70% of children leaving organized sports by the age of 13 and obesity rates on the rise we know that we need to be introducing our children to activities that they can do across a lifespan whether they are 5 or 95 years of age! About […]
How Activator Poles Improve Gait-Speed, Stride & Balance Webinar – Health Care Professionals
How Activator Poles Improve Gait- Speed, Stride & Balance Learn how to use Activator ℗ Poles (patent pending) to improve all outcomes of gait: balance, stride length, arm swing, speed and less gait variability. A case study from a gait assessment lab was reviewed as well as other videos of gait changes with clients with […]
Minimizing Risk of Falls – Study at SNF/LTC Webinar – Healthcare Professionals
Minimizing Risk of Falls – Study (LTC/SNF) Join us for an in-depth review of the ACTIVATOR ℗ Poles as they relate to minimizing factors associated with risk of falls. From their innovative design & patented ergonomic Coregrip, the ACTIVATOR Poles have been used to improve core strengthening, posture, walking tolerance and normalize gait pattern for older […]
Internationally Renowned Activator Poles – Webinar – Healthcare Professionals
Internationally Renowned Activator Poles Learn about an internationally renowned device called ACTIVATOR ℗ Poles developed to facilitate balance, strengthening, posture and normalize gait pattern. Excepts from this webinar are from the International Stroke Congress, International 200 Years of Parkinson’s Disease and the National Fall Prevention Conference in Canada. Over the 14 years of implementation, there […]
Comparison to Canes and Walkers Webinar – Healthcare Professionals
Comparison to Canes and Walkers Change of Practice – ACTIVATOR ℗ Poles in Comparison to Canes & to Reduce the use of Walkers and Crutches when appropriate. Recently, ACTIVATOR ℗ Poles were the focus of 8 international and national conference presentations/posters on this change of practice. Watch this 15 minute webinar on the research of the […]
Walk Away From Stress – Webinar – General Public
Walk Away From Stress After the death of my mom at 62 from breast cancer, separation from my husband, childless at almost 40 and surviving an abusive online dating experience, it was safe to say I was depressed and content to become a permanent part of the flooring. Instead I decided to get up off […]
Webinar – Active Living for Orthopaedic Rehab – Healthcare Professionals
Active Living for Orthopaedic Rehab ACTIVATOR ℗ Poles are an evidence-based, patented tool that is revolutionizing rehabilitation. Prescribed extensively across all continuums of healthcare for therapy and for the reduction of passive mobility device use such as canes, crutches and walkers (when appropriate). Learn how the ACTIVATOR Poles can benefit individuals with hip and knee conditions, such […]
General Public – Hip and Knee OA Webinar – General Public
General Public – Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis (OA) Learn how ACTIVATOR ℗ and Urban Poles are an excellent tool for those with hip and knee OA as well as for pre/post hip and knee surgery rehabilitation (when appropriate). There are 9 studies specifically on the ACTIVATOR Poles and 280+ independent peer reviewed studies on Nordic walking listed […]
The Power of Active Living Outdoors – Trees Mend Us Webinar – General Public
The Power of Active Living Outdoors – Trees Mend Us On September 12th at 12:00 pm EST we hosted a webinar with a retired nurse who has chronic health conditions (systemic lupus & rheumatoid arthritis), is an Urban poling enthusiast, and a soon-to-be published author, Verla Fortier! Verla is a big advocate for spending time outside […]