NextStep Raleigh

NextStep Raleigh is a paralysis recovery and fitness center on Hillsborough Street in west Raleigh. It is community based and priced to stay within reach for the people who use it, and the work is built around activity-based therapy instead of a conventional gym routine.

Clients train with certified therapists on standardized programs drawn from research, with recovery and day-to-day independence as the point of all of it. The center is set up for people living with paralysis who want to keep working long after formal rehabilitation has ended.

What to know

• Guided Activity-Based Therapy pairs a client with up to three certified activity-based therapists.
• Programs are standardized and built on research-based interventions.
• The equipment and setup are described as state of the art.
• One client, Mike, stood for the first time in 2016 after a diaphragm pacing system surgery.