Abstract
To support rehabilitation health care professionals' efforts to increase physical
activity levels among their outpatient rehabilitation and postdischarge patients,
we review the Exercise is Medicine (EIM) initiative. The EIM initiative was launched
in 2007 jointly by the American College of Sports Medicine and American Medical Association.
Three principles underlie the EIM initiative. First, physical activity should be monitored
as a vital sign; second, physical activity is an effective medical modality and should
be prescribed; and third, success of their vision requires top down and bottom up
efforts by 3 key stakeholder groups: health care providers, exercise professionals,
and the community. The target weekly physical activity level is 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous
physical activity, as established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and World Health Organization. Persons falling below the weekly target physical activity
level should be prescribed physical activity and/or referred to an exercise professional
for implementation support. Selection of an exercise professional for referral is
based on the patient's risk stratification and need to participate in clinically supervised
physical activity.
Keywords
List of abbreviations:
EIM (Exercise is Medicine), ePARmed-X+ (electronic Physical Activity Readiness Medical Examination), HCP (health care provider), MVPA (moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity), PAR-Q (Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire), PAR-Q+ (new Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone), PAVS (Physical Activity Vital Sign)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 25, 2016
Footnotes
Publication of this article was supported by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Disclosures: none.
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© 2016 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
