Exercise Referral

Course review:

This course qualifies you to work with patients referred by medical practitioners. Those keen to pursue such a route will be given an excellent insight into exercise referral process as well as various diseases and their implications for exercise.

This five-day course will show you how to plan and deliver safe and effective exercise programmes for your referred patients and deals with the following illnesses:
Hypertension and hypercholesterolemia
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma
Diabetes and obesity
Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
Osteoporosis
Back pain
Mental health

You will also be able to understand and explain the benefits of their new fitness regime

What are the benefits?
Fully recognised diploma qualification in Exercise Referral
In addition, you will learn about how the following can be used with exercise referral patients, how to adapt them and the limitations of your role:

Nutrition and weight management
Health screening and fitness testing
Soft skills and people skills needed to work with this diverse group of people
Opens up new markets and new business opportunities
Qualifies you to work with people with low to medium risk medical conditions
Qualifies you to work within exercise referral schemes
Delivered by subject-matter experts so you can be sure you are getting the latest and most up-to-date information
Study in your own time and fit around your existing client commitments

What will I learn?
Professional Practice and Government Policy
Background to the Exercise Referral Process
Establishing and Running an Exercise Referral Scheme
Hypertension and Hypercholesterolemia
Diabetes and obesity
Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Back Pain
Mental Health
Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Course duration and delivery
You could expect to complete this qualification in 4-8 weeks