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Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action
Physical activity (PA) is a key component of healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. In contrast, physical inactivity accounts for a significant proportion of premature deaths worldwide. Physicians are in a critical position to help patients develop healthy lifestyles by actively counseling on PA....
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23149653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091620 |
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author | Joy, Elizabeth (Liz) Blair, Steven N McBride, Patrick Sallis, Robert |
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description | Physical activity (PA) is a key component of healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. In contrast, physical inactivity accounts for a significant proportion of premature deaths worldwide. Physicians are in a critical position to help patients develop healthy lifestyles by actively counseling on PA. Sports medicine physicians, with their focus on sports and exercise medicine are uniquely trained to provide such expertise to patients, learners and colleagues. To succeed, physicians need clinical tools and processes that support PA assessment and counseling. Linking patients to community resources, and specifically to health and fitness professionals is a key strategy. Efforts should be made to expand provider education during medical school, residency and fellowship training, and continuing medical education. Lastly, physically active physicians are more likely to counsel patients to be active. A key message for the sports medicine community is the importance of serving as a positive PA role model. |
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spelling | pubmed-35333972013-01-03 Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action Joy, Elizabeth (Liz) Blair, Steven N McBride, Patrick Sallis, Robert Br J Sports Med Occasional Piece Physical activity (PA) is a key component of healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. In contrast, physical inactivity accounts for a significant proportion of premature deaths worldwide. Physicians are in a critical position to help patients develop healthy lifestyles by actively counseling on PA. Sports medicine physicians, with their focus on sports and exercise medicine are uniquely trained to provide such expertise to patients, learners and colleagues. To succeed, physicians need clinical tools and processes that support PA assessment and counseling. Linking patients to community resources, and specifically to health and fitness professionals is a key strategy. Efforts should be made to expand provider education during medical school, residency and fellowship training, and continuing medical education. Lastly, physically active physicians are more likely to counsel patients to be active. A key message for the sports medicine community is the importance of serving as a positive PA role model. BMJ Publishing Group 2012-11-13 2013-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3533397/ /pubmed/23149653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091620 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode |
spellingShingle | Occasional Piece Joy, Elizabeth (Liz) Blair, Steven N McBride, Patrick Sallis, Robert Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action |
title | Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action |
title_full | Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action |
title_fullStr | Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action |
title_short | Physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action |
title_sort | physical activity counselling in sports medicine: a call to action |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23149653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091620 |
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