On a chilly late-October morning, I woke up at my customary 5:30 a.m. and sat down at my desk attempting to craft words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs, hoping that writer's 'block' would not get the best of me. After several hours of 'intensive' writing, it was time to move. The 5 hours of non-movement, combined with the previous 7 hours of sleep, created stiffness and discomfort that made my body feel as if it were held together by tightly-wound rubber bands.

As anyone who sits in front of a computer screen for most of their workday knows, writing without movement is like a dog without a master. NCPAD's desire is to assist people with disabilities to move more because Moving More Means More Mobility, something I have started to refer to as the "five M's to good health."

Read the entire column at hhttp://www.ncpad.org/189/1368/2003-11~Issue~~Follow~the~Five~M~s~to~Good~Health .