GP Referral

For many years exercise was primarily considered to be the activities which took place as part of sports and other physically demanding recreational pursuits. “Exercisesers” were participants in those activities sometimes know as “fitness Freaks”  to the more sedentary people.

The situation is now that exercise is firmly established as an important preventative health behavouir and also a treatment for certain medical conditions- for example, diabetes, obesity, hypertension and depression. Accordingly, doctors may extend this to the promotion of exercise to all patients as preventative strategy.

The current situation is that although there is a perceived to “prescribe” exercise by doctors, their training is in medicine not exercise. An alternative strategy of referring patients to “exercise experts” for advice on exercise has been devised and this practice is now flourishing throughout Britain.

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