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Amputees call for more accessible sport and activities

A new survey shows there is clear demand for more physical activities to be accessible for people with a limb impairment.

LimbPower, which encourages amputees to engage in physical activity and sport, published their findings yesterday.

The report aims to give more information and support on this specific target audience in the hope to deliver more suitable activities for people with limb impairments.

The charity conducted the survey amongst amputees and found 83% of them would like to take part in more sport and physical activity in the future.

Richard Edwards, Senior Solicitor in personal injury at PotterReesDolan, said:

This is a very encouraging and welcome report. The loss of a limb brings with it a great many challenges but it should never be regarded as marking the end of an amputees’ ability to fully engage in sporting activities.

As this report shows, the health and wellbeing benefits of doing so are huge. Indeed one of my own amputee clients has been making his mark on the five-a-side pitch recently!

LimbPower welcomed these findings as their main priority is to support people with an amputation to take part in sport and be more active regularly.

The report also showed the two most common barriers to taking part in sport were limitations with their prosthetics and poor socket fit or comfort.

Richard is Group Secretary of ACSIL the Amputation Charity and has dealt with many clients who have had a limb amputated.

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