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Being active with disability – in sports and traveling

Leisure time

Photo: Man while playing wheelchair basketball; Copyright: Messe Düsseldorf

Whether in everyday life or while traveling - leisure activities can be very different. At REHACARE 2017 various exhibitors make different suggestions for accessible traveling. And the Rehabilitation and Sports Association of People with Handicaps in North-Rhine Westphalia invites visitors to the Sports Center in hall 7a to inform themselves about the variety of sports and to try out different types of sports directly on site.

Exhibitors SPORTS

Exhibitors TRAVELING

Exhibitors SPORTS

Photo: Exoskeleton user on the CYBATHLON race track, EXO Team Varileg, Zurich 2016; Copyright: ETH Zürich / Alessandro Della Bella

CYBATHLON Experience

ETH Zurich, in cooperation with REHACARE, is currently organising a CYBATHLON Experience, a new event format around the CYBATHLON concept.

Show races will take place, whereby people with physical disabilities will compete supported by advanced assistive robotic systems. One race track for wheelchairs and one for exoskeletons will be provided.

During all trade fair days, two times a day, Hall 4/H03
Click here for more information about the CYBATHLON Experience at REHACARE 2017

Focus topic: Active leisure time

Photo: Wheelchair user in a "rope course" at REHACARE 2016; Copyright: Messe Düsseldorf, Constanze Tillmann
Accessible leisure activities and travel services
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Photo: Cheering soccer fans at the stadium; Copyright: panthermedia.net/mikdam
Blind soccer fans are on the ball for 90 minutes thanks to match reporting
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Photo: Woman during a trip with Tour de Sens; Copyright: Tour de Sens
Tour de Sens: Blind and sighted people go on discovery tours together
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Sports in focus - photo gallery

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Photo: Soccer player, woman playing wheelchair table tennis and young female runner with a prosthesis; Copyright: Messe Düsseldorf
Photo: Woman in a wheelchair playing badminton; Copyright: Messe Düsseldorf
Photo: Young women and men after game of wheelchair basketball; Copyright: Messe Düsseldorf
Photo: Wheelchair dance; Copyright: Messe Düsseldorf
Photo: WCMX skater David Lebuser in action in the skatepark; Copyright: Messe Düsseldorf