NextStep Fitness is a state-of-the-art not for profit, community-based fitness facility that brings cutting edge training methods, procedures, and technologies to rehabilitation for spinal injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and traumatic brain injury victims. Their mission is to provide state-of-the-art fitness facilities for people living with paralysis at an affordable cost. In partnership with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation’s NeuroRecovery Network, NextStep Fitness was designed to enhance the recovery, wellness, and function of individuals with paralysis.
NextStep Fitness caught the nation’s attention when it was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America profiling its founder, Janne Kouri, and the cutting-edge intervention he helped bring into the community of paralyzed individuals.
NextStep Fitness has partnered with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation’s NeuroRecovery Network [NRN]. The interventions that are the basis of the NRN program, including locomotor training, come from years of basic research and expertise developed at hospital-based NRN centers and from rehabilitation best-of-practices in Europe. Through this research there is scientific and clinical evidence that supports the effectiveness of intensive therapy to improve the quality of the participant’s health and independence. The program is open to individuals with a spinal cord injury and other neurological conditions.
