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Exercise prescription
The role of exercise prescription in chronic disease
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G E Moore
Healthy Living and Exercise Medicine Associates, 1316 Black River Boulevard, Rome, NY 13440, USA; geofmoore@earthlink.net
Appropriate exercise should be included in the treatment of all patients
Keywords: exercise prescription; physical activity; chronic disease
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The use of exercise as a medical treatment is an old concept, but one that did not start gaining acceptance until the 20th century. Today, exercise scientists are exploring the limits of exercise as a therapy—of exercise as a medicine. It is not possible to discuss all the ramifications of exercise prescription in a brief article, so I shall take a larger view and illustrate how various kinds of exercise may be useful in patients with a chronic disease and/or a disability.
Hippocrates wrote, "In a word, all parts of the body which were made for active use, if moderately used and exercised at the labor to which they are habituated, become healthy, increase in bulk, and bear their age well, but when not used, and when left without exercise, they become diseased, their growth is arrested, and they soon become old."1 Medicine’s view of exercise did not
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