Pre-Exercise Health Screening Guide

by Olds, Tim

• ISBN13: 9780736002103
• ISBN10: 0736002103
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: HUMAN KINETICS PUBLISHERS

Summary

An essential reference for using the ACSM pre-exercise screening guidelines

Author Biography

Kevin Norton, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Physical Education, Exercise, and Sport Studies at the University of South Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction
introduction to pre-exercise screening	p. 1
why screen?	p. 1
risks and benefits	p. 4
a cost-benefit analysis	p. 6
the structure of pre-exercise screening systems	p. 9
different screening systems	p. 10
the four stages of screening	p. 10
how are cut-offs chosen?	p. 25
the ACSM 1995 system	p. 27
system overview	p. 29
stage 1: known disease	p. 30
stage 2: signs and symptoms of disease	p. 31
stage 3: cardiac risk factors	p. 32
stage 4: age and exercise intentions	p. 33
how to treat missing information	p. 34
after screening, what next?	p. 39
app. A: sample forms	p. 43
app. B: practice cases	p. 49
app. C: a pharmacopoeia	p. 73
bibliography	p. 79
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