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Tami L Jakubowski1, Avery D Faigenbaum, Claire Lindberg
1Tami L. Jakubowski is an Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ and a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Southampton Pediatric Associates, Southampton, PA. The author can be reached via e-mail at jakubows@tcnj.edu and tamijakubowski@gmail.com. Avery D. Faigenbaum is a Professor, Department of Health and Exercise Science, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ. Claire Lindberg is a Professor, Department of Nursing, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.
Abstract:
Daily physical activity has the potential to improve health and well-being, yet worldwide surveillance of physical activity levels indicate a growing number of children and adolescents do not meet current physical activity recommendations. The current symptom-reactive paradigm should be reconsidered, and preventive actions initiated, before inactive children become resistant to targeted interventions and require pharmacotherapy, and expensive medical procedures for treatment of preventable illnesses. A cascade of adverse events are associated with a sedentary lifestyle. Nurses are uniquely qualified to identify youth with exercise deficits and encourage daily participation in a variety of age-related physical activities that enhance both health- and skill-related components of physical fitness.Physical activity guidelines should support evidence-based activity recommendations by nurses working with children. New insights regarding the importance of improving muscular strength and motor skill performance early in life are valuable to nurses in formulating exercise recommendations for school-age youth. Specific education in pediatric exercise science provides the foundation for prescribing age-related exercise interventions consistent with the needs, abilities, and interests of infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents. Given the critical importance of primary prevention, transformational change in the current system for identifying and treating youth with exercise deficits is warranted.
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