Clinical Projects

Pole walking and exercise for stability and rehabilitation

A specific pole walking rehabilitation and falls prevention programme using strapless poles for balance and stability. WALX provides training for Physiotherapists, OT's and movement specialists to tailor pole walking for their patients. To help keep people on their feet we also provide signposting into the local Wellness WALX where our specialist coaches will provide regular, sociable WALX at the right level.

Featured Clinic

Initially we worked to develop a project for the Integrated Falls service in 2014 but this soon expanded into other Departments and to date we have trained circa 40 physios to use poles within the neuro, mental health and community outreach programmes. The focus is on empowering patients to lead their peers too. We have

MS - Fitness Force

MS Fitness Force, is weekly community fitness class delivered in Hornsey Vale / Haringey, North London. It is a specific Exercise class for those with Multiple Sclerosis delivered by North London Physiotherapy. WALX provided a pole walking for support and mobility workshop for them using the Xcelerator poles.

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

The occupational health and Physiotherapy teams at the RNOH have been embracing poles walking for many years. In this video they are learning how to master the NEW WALX Xcelerator ergonomic walking poles which they will be using with a range of client cohorts in the future. Your browser does not support the video tag. […]

St John's therapy centre

11 years after the first training session we delivered for the Physiotherapists, and Exercise Facilitators, of the Community Neuro Team, and Integrated Falls and Bone Health Service, based at St John’s Therapy Centre in London (part of St George’s NHS Trust ) – we were back in February 23 to teach a new tranche and […]

Diana Drawbridge

We all feel better if we walk more and this holds true for those people who unfortunately suffer with a medical problem, minor or more chronic. In fact, they probably benefit more because they are often starting from a lower base line of fitness. The Wednesday mobility and balance walk, and the Gentle rehab walk lead by […]

Mary Burton - Neurological Physio

Mary Burton provides both on line and outdoor walking and smovey based classes for those with Parkinson’s disease and neurological conditions in conjunction with her NHS role just outside Bristol Mary has also joined the WALX HQ team to deliver via our National portal where over 25 on line Exercise sessions delivered by our experts […]

Hertfordshire Parkinson's group

This group attend a weekly workout session with the WALX Ver valley group who operate in and around St Albans, Harpenden and Redbourn in Hertfordshire. The Instructor Sharon Walsh aims to grow the sessions in the future. “The feedback from those members of our group who have tried Nordic Walking has been very positive. Not […]

Bracknell Parkinson's group

Beccy Oliver from Bracknell in Berkshire attended one of our Activator workshops and invited local WALX Instructors Janine and Maria to deliver regular sessions with her. The group has grown in strength with one of their members, David, completing a 10km run recentlyhe started using the poles he was struggling with balance and focus. Beccy […]

Dorchester Physiotherapy Team

The community physiotherapy team in Dorchester hosted their first Activator pole walking for rehabilitation workshop in early 2018 . Those who attended reported some great outcomes with patients that there was soon demand for our Team to return for a second workshop later that year. Now with over 30 Physiotherapists and Physio assistants trained to […]