Exercise and Disease Management

ISBN-13: 9781138382008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

USA) TX Waco Brian C. Leutholtz (Baylor University;Ignacio Ripoll

Opis

Exercise and Disease Management is designed to help managed care physicians, their patients, other health care professionals, and interested readers integrate current exercise guidelines into their practices. This extraordinary book is accompanied by a series of 11 workbooks, each one for a chronic disease, designed specifically for physicians to give to their patients. These workbooks make it convenient for physicians to prescribe physical activity to their patients in a ready-to-use format. Each book chapter and workbook contains a section on the background, medical management, and exercise guidelines, accompanied by self-care instructions for patients, encouraging them to take a proactive role in their health and disease management. New and Updated in the Second Edition:A ready-to-use "Exercise Prescription Page," which follows each chapter on a specific disease, enables health care professionals, especially physicians in managed care, to prescribe exercise quickly to clients with specific medical conditionsThe "Rate Pressure Product" method for prescribing exercise helps health care providers individualize exercise prescriptions for patients with heart disease by accounting for the amount of oxygen the heart usesIndividual companion workbooks on CD provide patient health maintenance information about diabetes, AIDS, obesity, golden years (age 65 and older), heart, kidney, peripheral arterial, and lung disease. Workbooks for physical inactivity, osteoporosis, arthritis and high blood pressure also are included on the CDCommon question-and-answer sections that help patients understand the diseases from which they suffer and encourages them to take responsibility for their healthExercise and Disease Management, Second Edition consolidates the current knowledge base on exercise and chronic disease, providing a ready-made format for health care providers to use when prescribing exercise programs for their clients. Using guidelines set forth by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, this book helps physicians, other health care providers, and health enthusiasts respond to the challenge to keep patients healthier and active and reduce recurrent hospitalizations and health care costs.

Spis treści

"Postmodern" Medicine: Teaching Patients to Be Responsible for Their Health
Adherence to Exercise. The Exercise Prescription and Adherence

Curing, Healing, and Maintaining Health
High Blood Pressure: The Silent Killer. Diabetes. Kidney Disease. Heart Diseases. Lung Diseases. Obesity.Vascular Disease. Osteoporosis and Arthritis. Cancer, the Immune System, and AIDS. The "Golden Years". The Physically Inactive. Pregnancy. Wheelchair-Dependent Patients. Prepubescent Children.

Appendices
Appendix A: Exercise Prescriptions and "the Charts". Appendix B: Exercise Testing. Appendix C: Training Injuries. Index.