Understand how exercise can prevent and treat chronic diseases as you learn how to meet the different needs of your patients. This five-week course will help bridge this information gap and show you the benefits of exercise therapy for patients with chronic diseases.
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Explore exercise prescription for patients with chronic diseases
Current literature and guidelines clearly demonstrate that physical activity and exercise are an effective and cost-saving methods for both the prevention and treatment of different chronic diseases. However, this promising treatment is currently underused in real-world healthcare settings, mostly because of a lack of information and awareness.
You’ll learn how to integrate functional evaluation and physical exercise training into healthcare systems as a standard in patient care. This will be achieved through videos, papers, and interviews with some of the most important international experts in this field
Learn how use functional evaluation for adapted exercise prescription
You’ll appreciate the importance and utility of functional evaluations and learn how to design an individualised exercise prescription.
This knowledge will help you explore the importance of adapting exercise training to meet the needs of people with different chronic conditions.
Understand how to integrate exercise as medical treatment
To further help your patients safely and effectively engage in exercise, you’ll explore different chronic conditions such as cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, and peripheral diseases.
This knowledge will help you address and overcome barriers to successfully integrate exercise into your healthcare systems.
Learn from the experts at the University of Padova
Throughout the course, you’ll be guided by the specialists from the University of Padova. With their expertise, you’ll finish the course knowing what’s behind individualised exercise prescription and training for a variety of different patients and extreme environments.
Syllabus
Week 1: The benefits of physical exercise and its role in prevention and treatment of chronic diseases
Week 2: Getting ready for exercise: from functional evaluation to individualized exercise prescription and implementation
Week 3: Exercise prescription and application for the treatment of patients with cardiovascular or pulmonary limitations
Week 4: Exercise prescription and application for the treatment of patients with metabolic or peripheral limitations
Week 5: Exercise prescription for special populations and special environments
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explain the benefits of physical exercise for the prevention and treatment of specific chronic conditions
- Interpret an evaluation of the patient's level of physical activity, exercise capacity and cardiorespiratory fitness.
- Describe and articulate an individualised exercise prescription, also addressing patient’s compliance and related barriers.
- Collaborate with colleagues and affiliated professionals by sharing experiences and best practices developing a network within international initiatives working on Exercise in Medicine.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for healthcare professionals and students.
You may be a medical doctor wanting to learn more about exercise prescriptions based on functional evaluations of your patients with chronic diseases. Or you could be an exercise professional who needs to design individually-adapted physical exercise programmes.
You may also be a physiotherapist or student who wants to understand how exercise can treat and prevent chronic diseases.
