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1American Board of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, USA.
Abstract:
Despite the demands of a busy office setting, a brief physician counseling session about exercise can be highly effective and well worth the precious time. Components include delivering a clear message about exercise, stepping back to assess the patient's readiness to change, and using the patient's cues to set an activity agenda. Physician counseling about exercise is crucial to improving patients' health status and to the success of the several activity recommendations contained in the federal government's Healthy People 2010 report.
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