Physical empowerment interventions constitute a measure of CBR component service and helps achieve the rehabilitation of the physical mobility and/or sensory capacity of PWDs. It has been undertaken through the adoption and application of a number of interrelated measures. It used to involve the identification and assessment of the nature, type, and degree of the impairment of a PWD as well as the identification, measurement, and provision of assistive devices/appliances prescribed by professionals. These are technological products that involve, among others,

• Orientation and mobility skills training and provision of guide canes or optic glasses for persons with visual impairment;
• Identification, assessment, and measurement of the nature and degree of physical and/or mental/intellectual impairments and provision of physiotherapeutic treatment services through referral arrangements and in close collaboration with responsible family members, as well as provision for and use by the concerned persons with these impairments of age and gender appropriate appliances specific to the nature and degree of impairment, such as, orthopedic shoes, splints, braces, crutches, wheelchairs, artificial hands and/or legs, etc.