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Conducting Maximal and Submaximal Endurance Exercise Testing to Measure Physiological and Biological Responses to Acute Exercise in Humans
Published on: October 17, 2018
Abstract:
Medical prescription of physical activity. The prescription is "a therapeutic recommendation, possibly prescribed, made by a doctor". Up-to-date recommendations exist, relayed by the authorities which formalized this act of prescription by a law for long-term ailments. The medical prescription of physical activity and sports is directed to carriers of chronic pathologies for which it will have a therapeutic action and an action of prevention of the complications. It will include, at best, besides the precision of the four parameters characterizing this activity (type, intensity, duration and frequency of the sessions), advice of daily struggle against the sedentary lifestyle. It should be personalized, to consider the patient's condition and a possible risk incurred. It remains however to provide the skills to the prescribers, informed but not always trained, and to ensure the possibilities of practical realization of the exercises appearing on the medical prescription.
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