Referral Schemes to promote physical activity – NICE issues updated guidance

NICE PH54 guidance was reissued this September (2014). This guideline makes recommendations on exercise referral schemes to promote physical activity for people aged 19 and older. It is an update of recommendation 5 in ‘Four commonly used methods to increase physical activity‘ (NICE public health guidance 2). It focuses on exercise referral schemes that try…

Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease

A very useful resource from Sweden – Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease – is available to search and download. It gives an overview of all the research evidence behind prevention and management of disease with physical activity and exercise across the age range. A “must-read” for those of you who work…

SportEx

SportEx – The journals that bring to life the medicine behind sport and physical activity. This hopefully will come as a surprise to those of you who don’t know us personally but sportEX is run from a house in a little residential street in Wimbledon. It started out with just me, quickly joined by Alexa,…

Guidelines for Exercise Programming for the frail elderly – Better Ageing Project 2005

Guidelines for Exercise Programming for the Frail Elderly have been published by the Better Ageing Collaborative based on the results of the European Commission Framework V Better Ageing Project.  The project used the FaME programme as the basis of the exercise intervention and the original protocol for the FaME exercise intervention is cited.  You can…