Publisher's Synopsis
Exercise can help improve a wide variety of health problems,including obesity, heart disease, depression and mobility disorders,and GPs are increasingly referring their patients to local fitnessprofessionals as part of their treatment. These GP referral schemes areone of the key pillars in the government's ten-year plan to improvelevels of physical activity, and the number of schemes in the UK hasrisen by 500% over the last ten years: there are now over 800 schemesin operation.
This book gives fitness professionals everything they need to knowto manage a referred client, from fulfiling government recommendationsto motivating and retaining clients, and includes: an outline ofgovernment policy; exercise guidelines for different medicalconditions; working with GP referral clients; designing a programme;sample client evaluation and assessment questionnaires; client starterpacks.
