PRESCRIBING ACTIVITY AND MOVEMENT
About 40% of forty year olds have one long term condition and a proportion have more than one condition and the proportion of people with long conditions increases by ten per cent every decade. However the increase in disease is not because of ageing but of living longer exposed to risk either environmental, social or personal. There are of course a number of disease that we cannot prevent at present so you need a bit of luck as well but what is also emerging is the way loss of fitness complicates disease and increases the fitness gap wider and faster in part because of the direct effect of the disease, for example the direct effect of a heart attack on heart muscle but it also increases for social reasons because other people, including professional “carers” and family assume that the onset of disease indicates the need for less activity and more “care” whereas the opposite is scientifically what is required.
The medical profession is fully behind this even publishing a report titled Exercise - the Miracle Cure and the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine has launched a programme for both clinicians and patients called Moving Medicine
About 40% of forty year olds have one long term condition and a proportion have more than one condition and the proportion of people with long conditions increases by ten per cent every decade. However the increase in disease is not because of ageing but of living longer exposed to risk either environmental, social or personal. There are of course a number of disease that we cannot prevent at present so you need a bit of luck as well but what is also emerging is the way loss of fitness complicates disease and increases the fitness gap wider and faster in part because of the direct effect of the disease, for example the direct effect of a heart attack on heart muscle but it also increases for social reasons because other people, including professional “carers” and family assume that the onset of disease indicates the need for less activity and more “care” whereas the opposite is scientifically what is required.
The medical profession is fully behind this even publishing a report titled Exercise - the Miracle Cure and the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine has launched a programme for both clinicians and patients called Moving Medicine