BENEFITS OF EXERCISE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Flashcards
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Why IMPORTANT FOR PHYSIOTHERAPISTS
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- Keeping people active by preventing and treating a wide range of health conditions and movement disorders is part of our core business1.
- Physical activity reduces the rate of decline in physical functioning and therefore delays the onset of disability.
- Health professionals, including physiotherapists, are in an important position to provide advice on health promotion behaviours
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WHY IS KEEPING ACTIVE IMPORTANT?
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Worldwide, physical inactivity has a similar effect on
life expectancy as smoking and obesity
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Physical functioning
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As age increases, one’s physical functioning decreases
- rapid decline once hit disability threshold
- disability threshold @ 70 for no exercise vs at 90 for high exercise
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WHY AND HOW SHOULD WE PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY?
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Physical inactivity is one of the most powerful, modifiable risk factors for health1
The odds are that a high proportion of your clients/patients will be insufficiently active.
On average, 60% of adults are insufficiently active
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HOW MUCH IS ‘SUFFICIENTLY ACTIVE’
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- Accumulate 150 to 300 minutes (2 1⁄2 to 5 hours) of moderate intensity physical activity or 75 to 150 minutes (1 1⁄4 to 2 1⁄2 hours) of vigorous intensity physical activity, or an equivalent combination of both moderate and vigorous activities, each week.
• Do muscle strengthening activities on at least 2 days each week.
• Minimise the amount of time spent in prolonged sitting.
• Break up long periods of sitting as often as possible.
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OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY
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3 in 5 adults are overweight or obese (based on BMI)
Most commonly measured using the body mass index (BMI).
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Unfit
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- Fitness is more important than fatness for health
- Unfit individuals have twice the risk of death regardless of BMI, while fit and overweight and obese individuals have similar mortality risk as their normal weight counterparts.
