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 Overview of Walk with Ease - ISU

Our team leads the statewide dissemination of Walk with Ease as part of a CDC supported Cooperative Agreement focused on arthritis care.

Walk with Ease is an evidence-based program developed by the Arthritis Foundation to help reduce symptoms of arthritis. However, it has many other benefits. We have prioritized Walk with Ease in our project since it can be delivered in multiple formats and can be readily adopted and used in community-based settings.

Information for Participants

If you are interested the Walk with Ease program as a participant, please click for more information. If you want to register or ask additional questions, please click the links below and we will reach out to help. Additional info is on the linked pages.

Local (In-person) Program Information

Statewide (Virtual) Program information

Information for Organizations

 If you are interested in learning how to offer Walk with Ease or Fall screening in your county or community, please refer to the Organization Information page. We offer free training and supplemental support to enable fitness leaders or professionals to be able to effectively deliver these and other programs.

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 Overview of the FRAIL Initiative 

Our team recently completed a 4 year clinical trial designed to evaluate the potential of Walk with Ease as a formalized fall prevention program. The project built capacity in our team for fall risk screening and we have emphasized fall prevention as a complementary goal in our state level arthritis care project.

We built a robust partnership in Story County through the Story County Fall Prevention Coalition which enables clinicians to directly refer patients that would benefit from physical activity programming or fall risk programming. In collaboration with the Iowa Community HUB, we developed the FRAIL (Fall Risk & Adult Intervention Linkage) initiative which promote training and referral to evidence-based programming across the state. We offer periodic screening events in collaboration with leaders from the coalition but individuals can also contact us for a FREE screen any time.  Additional information is available on the About page or in the flyer at right. For additional information or to sign up, complete this simple online form and we will reach out to answer any questions   ​

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U-TuRN
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The Iowa State University Translational Research Network (U-TuRN) works to support communities and organizations by helping build their capacity to adopt and implement evidence-based tools and practices. We are pleased to be able to support the dissemination of the Walk with Ease programming locally in collaboration with the Story County Healthy Lifestyle Task Force and many affiliated agencies and organizations. The insights gained from delivering the program locally have helped us to build out training models to support programming statewide.

Arthritis Foundation
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The Arthritis Foundation champions the fight to conquer arthritis through life-changing science pursuing a cure, while offering resources and community connections to help reduce the impact of the number one cause of disability in America.