Physical Therapy Continuing Education Courses

Ellen Hillegass PT, Ed.D., CCS, FAACVPR

Lecture Name

Part I: Risk Assessment and Fundamentals of Exercise Physiology     $93.75


This lecture is part of the following course:
Assessment of Exercise Tolerance for Development of Safe Exercise Prescription

Description

This course discusses the risk factors for disease, as well as an introduction to exercise physiology, to assist the learner in assessment of individuals prior to developing an exercise program. The risk factors that are discussed include risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart failure, pulmonary disease, deep vein thrombosis, diabetes and falls. The introduction to exercise physiology includes a discussion of anaerobic versus aerobic metabolism and the components involved, as well as the effects of medications and diet on anaerobic and aerobic metabolism.

Contact Hours: 2.50

Rating:   

Difficulty: Intermediate

Purpose:

The purposes of this lecture are:

• To enable the practitioner to improve their ability to assess their patients’ risk for disease, in order to develop safe exercise programs.
• To provide the practitioner with an overview of the fundamentals of exercise physiology for assessing exercise tolerance.

Goals & Objectives:

At the completion of this lecture, the learner will be able to:

1. Discuss the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and be able to implement assessment of risk factors into their clinical practice;
2. Discuss the risk factors for pulmonary disease, deep vein thrombosis, heart failure, diabetes and falls, as well as the importance for identifying these factors prior to developing exercise programs for their patients/clients;
3. Compare and contrast anaerobic metabolism versus aerobic metabolism and discuss ways to adapt exercise programs to utilize and train both methods of energy metabolism;
4. Discuss factors that affect the utilization of energy for exercise (either enhance or hinder);
5. Discuss basic nutritional components that may affect a patient’s exercise performance; and
6. Apply information learned to case examples that they might see in their clinical practice.

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