About NWANA Health

NWANA Health is the health, rehabilitation, and research home of the Nordic Walking Association of North America. This page says plainly who stands behind the site and how it works.

The organization

NWANA is the national federation developing Nordic Walking in North America across four connected fields: sport (the NWANA Open Series and championships), education (the NWANA Academy and instructor preparation), community (local NW Groups), and health: this site, together with the Charity Challenge, where sustained everyday activity is studied and encouraged.

Why a health site inside a sports federation

Because for Nordic Walking, sport and health are the same road at different speeds. The technique taught to a beginner in a community group, to a patient group walking as part of a rehabilitation program, and to an athlete preparing for a World Championship is one technique. NWANA Health keeps the health side of that road honest and well lit: what the activity is, what research supports, where it is used in medicine, and how a person actually begins.

How this site handles health claims

• Claims are tied to published research, and the Research page names the studies and reviews behind them.
• Where evidence is early, small, or mixed, the text says so.
• The site never promises a cure, a treatment result, or a diagnosis. It is educational information, and it says so on every health page.
• NWANA does not present partnerships, programs, or results it does not have. Where NWANA describes its own direction, such as research inside the Charity Challenge, it is described as a direction, with findings published only when there are real findings.

The wider NWANA system