Accessible Health Promotion and Fitness for Persons with Disabilities: Sbir/Sttr

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Accessible Health Promotion and Fitness for Persons with Disabilities: Sbir/Sttr: The purpose of this initiative is to promote innovative design modifications of diagnostic medical devices and fitness equipment that will be suitable for facilities and/or for home in order to increase accessibility for persons with disabilities, improve their health and wellness, and reduce the occurrence of secondary conditions. This initiative encourages the use of universal design principles for 1) diagnostic medical devices in healthcare facilities (but not modification of the facilities themselves), or 2) fitness and health promoting equipment in fitness centers or home settings. Applicants should identify a potential barrier unique to persons with physical disabilities and propose new designs or substantial modifications of existing devices or equipment. This initiative primarily focuses on improving access to biomedical and fitness equipment, but does not extend to architectural modifications, improving mobility in general (e.g., prosthetics, orthotics or wheelchair design) or adaptations to equipment and devices that primarily function in a vocational, educational or outside recreational setting.