Finch, C., Owen, N., & Price, R. (2001). Current injury or disability as a barrier to being more physically active. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 33(5), 778-782.

The purpose of this study was to determine to what extent existing disability affects people's levels of physical activity. The sample was urban-dwelling adults ages 18 and above, with two-thirds of the subjects over 45.

The researchers found that older people rated current injury or disability as a barrier to physical activity more often than younger participants. People who are obese, based on body mass index (BMI), cited current injury or disability as a barrier to physical activity more often than those who were underweight or normal weight. Finally, people who were not physically active said that current injury or disability inhibited their current physical activity level more often than people with a high current physical activity level.

Read the entire abstract at http://www.ncpad.org/143/1111/Current~injury~or~disability~as~a~barrier~to~being~more~
physically~active~.