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| focuses on how and why the human body responds to physical activity. |
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| Two primary areas of inquiry for exercise scientists |
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1) Health related aspects of physical activity
2) Sports performance |
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| is the science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of humans in good health, their organs, and the cells of which they are composed. The principal level of focus of physiology is at the level of organs and systems. |
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| is the subject of a field of biochemistry that concerns energy flow through living systems |
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| 4 evolving areas in exercise and health science |
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1) Health and Fitness
2) Health Rehabilitation
3) Fitness Specialties
4) Teaching and Higher Education |
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manage, direct, and teach fitness programs.
senior fitness, youth fitness/sports, profit and non-profit club industry, employed personal trainer, health coordinator, group exercise instructor. |
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| Corporate Fitness and Wellness |
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Implement and design health and fitness programs for a broad array of workers at all levels, ethnicities, genders, and abilities.
Goal is to improve health and lower insurance costs for a corporation |
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| Wellness and health promotion programs |
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| schools, medical sites, YMCA, YWCA, community centers, community agencies, colleges, nursing home and long-term care facilities, recreational departments, aquatic centers, health and lifestyle management organizations. |
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Residential spas must include a fitness and nutrition component
Fitness director, spa director, health and fitness instructor, personal trainer |
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helping people improve quality of life through a individualized fitness program.
promote, market, and sell services
maintain business records and budgets |
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Help individuals recover or maintain working skills and daily functions.
Work with individuals who have physically, mentally, emotionally, or developmentally-challenging conditions.
Settings for the OT
hospitals, at-home, school systems, community health centers, adult daycare centers, long-term care facilities |
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Help clients improve mobility, reduce pain, rehabilitate injury, and prevent or limit permanent disability.
Settings for the PT
hospitals, at-home, private offices, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities, schools |
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Managing, recognizing and preventing sports injuries.
Work closely with coaches and physicians to best prepare athletes for practice and competition.
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Secondary schools, colleges and universities, professional sports, industrial health care programs, health clubs, sports medicine centers. |
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| Clinical Exercise Physiology |
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Focus on chronic pathologic conditions
cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic diseases for which participation in physical activity has a known therapeutic or functional benefit.
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Hospitals, health centers, cardiac and other rehabilitation centers. |
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Develop/implement nutritional programs, assess the nutritional needs of individuals and advise patients on weight loss, diabetes control, high blood pressure control, cholesterol reduction.
Often work with special populations (AIDS, cancer patients, bariatric, etc.)
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Hospitals, long-term care facilities, health departments, social service agencies, residential care facilities, school systems. Often work with special populations |
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