Clinical Exercise Physiology Flashcards
Give 3 keywords to describe clinical exercise Physiology?
Kinesiology, rehabilitation, exercise
What is Clinical Exercise Physiology?
where are they found?
What are some traits about this new career field?
- CEP=> health professional that utilizes scientific rationale to design, implement and supervise exercise programming for participants w/ chronic diseases and disabilities. They also assess the results of outcomes related to exercise services provided to those individuals.
- Used to help clients manage or reduce their risk of chronic disease.
- Primarily in medical settings.
- Its a growing profession that is more and more organized and recognized at the provincial and national levels.
iClicker: what is the name of the Canadiana Association offering the CEP certification?
Canadian Society for exercise physiology (CSEP)
iClicker: Are participants with Parkinson’s disease good at performing dual tasks such as boxing and answering questions?
NO
What are the CEP’s services?
- Chronic disease management
- Reducing risks for early development or recurrence of chronic diseases.
- Creating lifestyle habits that promote enhancement of health.
- Facilitating the elimination of barriers to habitual lifestyle changes through goal-setting and prioritizing.
- Improving the ease of daily living activities
- Increasing the likelihood of long-term physical, social and economic independence.
What does a CEP do?
- obtains a medical history on a client
- administer exercise-related tests
- analyse test results
- design an individualized exercise prescription that meets the specific needs of the client
- Determine short and long term goals (along with each client)
- Use his/her expertise to assist clients to improve health- and motor-related fitness components
Where do CEP’s work?
Hospital, outpatient clinics, rehab. centres, community centres, university labs or hospital-based research facilities.
-Work as a team w/ other health professionals
How can a CEP make a direct impact on their client’s lives?
- lead clients through a comprehensive program of health education and exercise as means in managing risk factors for chronic disease.
- Encourage and support clients to stay on track with an exercise regimen and lifestyle changes=> results in risk factor modification, and making exercise an enjoyable as well as a permanent lifestyle practice.
How does a CEP differ from a physical therapist or a personal trainer?
What do CEP focus on?
Clinical Exercise Physiologist’s Focus: To improve health and motor components of physical fitness in order to enable those with a chronic disease or disability to live life to the fullest and to achieve the most effective management of their disease.
What do Physical Therapists focus on?
Treat patients who have acute or chronic pain due to injury and disability. (i.e; rehab after knee or shoulder surgery)
-focus on improving the area of injury
What do Personal Trainers focus on?
- Work with clients who are healthy=> us exercise to enable their clients to reach their physical potential.
- They do not require to have training in exercise science.
iClicker: Is the term clinical exercise Physiology or CEP widely used in Quebec?
b) NO
How many members of the FKQ are at the provincial level?
800 members
What are the roles of the FKQ?
- To promote and represent the Kinesiologists in the province of Quebec
- To provide a certification in Kinesiology
- To obtain a professional order
iClicker: which of the following programs (offered in our dept) do you need to complete to become a certified Kinesiologist?
c) A BSc in CEP