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Understanding lifestyle, health, wellbeing and common medical conditions
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Click to read this document on ‘Recommendations for prescribing exercise to patients with heart disease’. It should be emphasised at this point that in any case, patients with heart disease should be referred to a cardiologist or similar specialist for consultation and/or assessment before the exercise programme starts.
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Reading Materials
‘Diabetes: the basics’ from the Diabetes UK website
‘Obesity’ from the NHS
‘Cardiovascular disease’ on the NHS website
‘Stress’ from the NHS
‘High blood pressure (hypertension)’ on the NHS website
‘Adult pre-exercise screen tool’ on the Any Time Fitness website
‘Pre-exercise screening: Guide to the Australian adult pre-screening system’’ by Professor K Norton and Dr L Norton
‘3 fundamental reasons for exercise referral’ from the Pure Training and Development website
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Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning
Click to read this document on ‘Recommendations for prescribing exercise to patients with heart disease’. It should be emphasised at this point that in any case, patients with heart disease should be referred to a cardiologist or similar specialist for consultation and/or assessment before the exercise programme starts.
This NHS document is titled ‘Physical activity – referred and signposting’.
Choosing the right person to seek help and advice from can sometimes be a confusing task. This article from The Association of UK Dieticians is called ‘Dietician or nutritionist?’
This article from Physiopedia is titles ‘Physical activity and exercise prescription’.
‘Why personal trainers need to understand behaviour change’ is an article from Future Fit.
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