Exercise in Medicine: From Functional Evaluation to Adapted Exercise Training

University of Padova

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Start Date: 13 Mar, 2023
5 weeks
Study Content: Videos

Understand how exercise can prevent and treat chronic diseases as you learn how to meet the different needs of your patients.

Course Fee: Free

Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility

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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Explore exercise prescription for patients with chronic diseases

Current literature and guidelines clearly demonstrate that physical activity and exercise are effective and cost-saving methods for both the prevention and treatment of different chronic diseases. However, this promising treatment is currently underused in real-world healthcare settings, mostly because of a lack of information and awareness.

This five-week course will help bridge this information gap and show you the benefits of exercise therapy for patients with chronic diseases.

You’ll learn how to integrate functional evaluation and physical exercise training into healthcare systems as a standard in patient care. This will be achieved through videos, papers, and interviews with some of the most important international experts in this field

Learn how use functional evaluation for adapted exercise prescription

You’ll appreciate the importance and utility of functional evaluations and learn how to design an individualised exercise prescription.

This knowledge will help you explore the importance of adapting exercise training to meet the needs of people with different chronic conditions.

Understand how to integrate exercise as medical treatment

To further help your patients safely and effectively engage in exercise, you’ll explore different chronic conditions such as cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, and peripheral diseases.

This knowledge will help you address and overcome barriers to successfully integrate exercise into your healthcare systems.

Learn from the experts at the University of Padova

Throughout the course, you’ll be guided by the specialists from the University of Padova. With their expertise, you’ll finish the course knowing what’s behind individualised exercise prescription and training for a variety of different patients and extreme environments.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals and students.

You may be a medical doctor wanting to learn more about exercise prescriptions based on functional evaluations of your patients with chronic diseases. Or you could be an exercise professional who needs to design individually-adapted physical exercise programmes.

You may also be a physiotherapist or student who wants to understand how exercise can treat and prevent chronic diseases.

Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

University of Padova

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

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