Exam 1 Flashcards
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Apparently Healthy
Individual with no known disease or condition; low risk for CVD
Special population
Individual with known disease or condition; requires an adaptation and/or modification with exercise program
Robert Sallis
MD; former president of ACSM . He predicted that this generation of kids will be the first of the US to live shorter lives than their parents.
Hippocrates
Father of preventative medicine. He believed exercise could be used to preventatively disease and treat it.
Herodicus
An athlete/olympian and physician who influenced Hippocrates.
- 1st use of therapeutic exercise for treatment of disease and maintenance of health
- Father of SPORTS MEDICINE
Galen
- Physician, surgeon, philosopher.
- Believed surgery, drugs, regimen and exercise all contribute to health.
- Believed in the 6 factors that must be kept in balance to prevent disease
Laws of Health
- Breathe fresh air (prescription: be outside, quit smoking..)
- Eat proper food and drink proper drinks (prescription: portion sizes, fruits and veggies, water)
- Exercise
- Get adequate sleep
- Daily bowel movements (high fiber diet/stay active)
- Control emotions (stress, be aware of pt. emotions)
Eastern History of Exercise and Disease
Tai Chi: used today with parkinsons (around since 200 BC)
Hua T’o
India: Yoga, Sushruta
Hua T’o
- Chinese physician/surgeon and an advocate of exercise.
- Exercise in MODERATION, not over point of exhaustion
- Exercise should mimic tiger, deer, bear, monkey, crane and bird movements
- Exercise to prevent sickness/disease, eliminate bad air from lungs, promote free circulation of blood, strengthen muscles, increase appetite, prevent old age
India History
- 3000 BC ideas of proper diet and exercise were known to be essential
- Yoga
- Sushrata: FATHER OF SURGERY; concepts of acute exercise (one session), should be discontinued when breathing is labored. Chronic concepts: less likely to have obesity, mental alertness increased, excessive exercise can cause injury. One of the first persons to discover diabetes and the difference between type one and two.
Scope of Duties
Must know what falls in and outside of your scope of training. Sue/firing could result.
–it is illegal in Ohio for anyone except RD’s and MD’s to give nutritional advice
Code of Ethics
Hippocratic oath: always do what is best for the patients health–do no harm
Health appraisal
procedures used to assess the health status of an individual (stress test, resting HR, blood pressure)
Health Risk Assessment
Health questionnaire used to provide individuals with an evaluation of their health risks and quality of life. Incorporates: 1. an extended questionnaire 2. a risk calculation score 3. some form of feedback
Purposes of pre-participation health screening:
- ID of individuals with medical contraindications that require adaptations to exercise programs until conditions have been controlled or abated.
- Recognize individuals with diseases that need supervised while exercise throughout the program.
- It should be determined if the individual needs a health screening before participating in an exercise program.
PAR-Q
Most commonly used self screening tool that exists. A good way to determine ones own risk.
Professional Guided screening VS Self guided
Self guided should be done for ALL individuals wishing to start a PA program. The answers to the self guided methods determine the need for and degree of follow up by a qualified health/fitness, clinical exercise, or health care provider before starting the program.
-high risk symptoms/or diagnosed diseases should consult physician prior to beginning
Unknown FBG
Unknown fasting blood glucose levels
-only a risk factor if the individuals BMI is > or equal to 25 or greater than or 45 yo. Or those less than 45 yo with a BMI greater than or equal to 25.
Unknown CVD risk factor
IF the presence or absence of a CVD risk factor is unknown it should be counted as a risk factor except for pre diabetes.
High HDL
considered a negative risk factor. For individuals with an HDL > or equal to 60, one positive risk factor can be subtracted from the sum of positive risk factors.
Low Risk
Asymptomatic
and less than 2 risk factors
Moderate Risk
Asymptomatic or greater than or equal to 2 risk factors
High Risk
Symptomatic OR known CV, pulmonary, renal, or metabolic disease
SOAP
Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan of Action