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The Brain and Spinal Injury Clinic in Salford (B.A.S.I.C), is a charity that supports people who have suffered a brain or spinal injury with high-quality rehabilitation. Find out how they included outdoor gym equipment to support patient recovery.
The Brain and Spinal Injury Clinic in Salford (B.A.S.I.C), is a charity that supports people who have suffered a brain or spinal injury with high-quality rehabilitation and they wanted to enhance their established rehabilitation offering by introducing a range of state of the art outdoor gym equipment from Fresh Air Fitness.
The new outdoor gym needed to provide a combination of upper and lower body, gentle exercise options with pieces suitable for wheelchair use. As well as being enjoyable to use, the equipment needed to be safe and easy to operate by patients on their recovery journey.
To ensure correct use, each piece required hard wearing permanent signage with clear instructions. Most importantly, the Fresh Air Fitness outdoor gym facility needed a creative solution for placement as the available space was limited.
The outdoor gym equipment chosen included a Chest Press and Pull Down Challenger in one zone alongside a second Chest Press and Pull Down Challenger adapted specifically for wheelchair use.
Known as ‘the Combo’, the back-to-back seats of this piece of dual-use equipment allows two people to workout at once.
Users can exercise the chest muscles, shoulder muscles and arms muscles on one side on the Chest Press side and the Lats and Arms on the Pull Down Challenger side.
The second exercise zone included an Arm and Pedal Bike and Arm and Pedal Bike specially designed for wheelchair use. The Arm and Pedal Bike is excellent for improving flexibility, core strength and cardio fitness.
Tom Willock, Managing Director at Fresh Air Fitness said:-
“Working with B.A.S.I.C was a fantastic project whereby the installation of our outdoor gym equipment directly benefited the patients physical and emotional rehabilitation.
“We were delighted to be able to work together with the team at B.A.S.I.C on this design and installation.”
Our team of experts can provide you with information about where to start with funding for your outdoor gym equipment. We also provide a FREE downloadable guide on Funding which includes all of the options currently available.
Since 2007, Fresh Air Fitness has installed over 4,000 outdoor gyms nationwide. As a leading provider of outdoor gym equipment in the UK, organisations come to us for our well-priced and high-quality equipment, which is sustainable, people powered, low maintenance and kind to the environment.
Due to our continued product development and innovation, we also have one of the largest ranges of outdoor gym equipment in the UK, which can be bought and installed as individual units as well as in packages. There are also a number of special offers available.
If you would like more information, one of the Fresh Air Fitness team would be delighted to assist with your enquiry on 01483 357289 (South) or 0151 3293550 (North).
Working with B.A.S.I.C was a fantastic project whereby the installation of our outdoor gym equipment directly benefited the patients physical and emotional rehabilitation.
TOM WILLOCK, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FRESH AIR FITNESS
We were delighted to be able to work together with the team at B.A.S.I.C on this design and installation.
TOM WILLOCK, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FRESH AIR FITNESS
