Feature | Optimizing the Built Environment for Physical Activity

Sometimes it takes a downtown playground to help a person see the light.

For Sammi Bair-Jones, PT, DPT, the space that did it is in Port Townsend, Washington. "You have restaurants and then beach, and there’s the playground — everything is just a few steps away."

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