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This book gives fitness professionals everything they need to know to manage a referred client, from fulfilling government recommendations to motivating and retaining clients. Exercise can help prevent and treat a wide variety of health problems, including obesity, heart disease and mobility disorders, and fitness professionals are increasingly working with referred patients as part of their treatment. Formerly published as Fitness Professionals: GP Referral Schemes, the updated edition of this established and definitive guide includes the latest information from sources such as NICE and ACSM as well as a new chapter on session plans to provide fresh ideas for working with your clients. Written by a highly experienced exercise professional, this book covers: - Exercise guidelines for different medical conditions - Strategies for working with exercise referral clients - Approaches to activity and programme design health, safety and risk management
"Comprehensive quick reference provides exercise management of 46 chronic diseases and disabilities. Text includes eight new conditions and updated information. Helps students to prescribe exercise testing and programming, stay informed of current drugs, developments, and specific symptoms"--Isbn.nu web site.
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Recommended title for 2005 ACSM Certification Examinations! ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription began as a concise summary of recommendations for exercise testing and prescription primarily for cardiac patients; it has now become one of the single most internationally read and referenced texts of its kind. This reference is a virtual pharmacopoeia of exercise guidelines in a broad spectrum of patients. In this new edition there is heightened emphasis on preventing illness in apparently healthy persons and those "at risk", as well as treating patients with chronic disease. There are also two new chapters on methods for changing exercise behavior and legal issues.
This unique guidebook gives physicians a trusty resource in the management of cardiovascular disorders of patients who participate in sports and athletic activity. Issues such as the role of exercise in coronary artery disease, EKG findings in athletes, syncope in athletes, and more, are reviewed in full. Coverage of specific guidelines detailing diagnosis, management, and prevention along the latest epidemiological data.
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