Health Behavior and Exercise Prescription.

Statin and exercise prescription.

Peter Kokkinos and colleagues (Feb 2, p 394) describe the interactive eff ects of fi tness and statins on mortality risk in veterans with dyslipidaemia. They report that increasing physical activity and statins independently lowers lipid levels and total mortality, but that the combination of these interventions is superior to either alone. The authors conclude that prescription of physical act...

“Theory of Planned Behavior” in Physical Therapy: From Deciding Exercise Prescription to Improving Exercise Adherence

The Theory of planned behavior (TPB) was proposed by Icek Ajzen in 1988 which was an expectancy-value theory that provided a framework for the study of behavioral and normative beliefs affecting health behaviors. 1 The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a popular framework for understanding the informational and motivational influences of exercise and physical activity behavior, 2 and it can e...

Exercise on Prescription . Effect

Exercise and Duchenne muscular dystrophy: toward evidence-based exercise prescription.

To develop a rational framework for answering questions about the role of exercise in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), we focused on five pathophysiological mechanisms and offer brief hypotheses regarding how exercise may beneficially modulate pertinent cellular and molecular pathways. We aimed to provide an integrative overview of mechanisms of DMD pathology that may improve or worsen as a r...

Exercise prescription--North American experience.

The principles of exercise prescription are reviewed with respect to North American experience. The required regimen must be safe, therapeutically effective, and ensure a high rate of compliance. Precautions to increase the safety of exercise are discussed. Cardiac emergencies are sufficiently rare events (less than 1 in 200,000 hours even in post-coronary classes) that the need for immediate m...