Musculoskeletal rehabilitation programmes launched by operator and its partners

PARKWOOD Leisure, one of the UK’s leading leisure facilities operators, and their partners Legacy Leisure and Lex Leisure, have launched two new exercise-based rehabilitation programmes at 24 leisure centres across England and Wales.

The launch is part of a two-year research project led by a health and fitness consortium comprising Good Boost, ukactive, Orthopaedic Research UK, ESCAPE-pain and Arthritis Action. The project aims to investigate how to transform leisure facilities into musculoskeletal hubs which can be accessed in every community.

More than 20 million people in the UK suffer from an MSK condition, which accounts for the third largest area of NHS spend at £5bn annually.

The consortium aims to design a system-based approach to better integrate leisure facilities within the nation’s healthcare infrastructure, turning them into a locally accessible network of community ‘MSK hubs’.

The aim is to reduce health inequalities and the burden on the NHS by providing local, supported, self-management options for people to better maintain mobility, physical function and reduce pain through exercise.

The two programmes available are: n Good Boost: An aqua and land-based exercise rehabilitation programme that uses AI technology to assess individual conditions and create tailored exercise programmes. These sessions are