Bodily exercise, a “full-fledged remedy” for the Excessive Well being Authority

In a press launch revealed this Tuesday, September 6, the Excessive Authority for Well being (HAS) remembers that bodily exercise “should positively be thought of as a remedy in its personal proper and be prescribed as such”. Certainly, in response to the well being physique, sport would have many advantages reminiscent of decreasing the chance of recurrence of sure breast cancers, slowing the chance – lowered by two – of the transition from a prediabetic state to diabetes, and so on. .

Not sufficient prescriptions

Thus, on this press launch, the HAS publishes a brand new prescription and session information and assist sheets for the prescription of bodily exercise damaged down by pathology for docs.

The regulation of March 2 geared toward democratizing sport in France prolonged the prescription of wholesome sport to persistent diseases or folks with threat elements or lack of autonomy. However, the HAS considers that also “many sufferers really feel apprehensive about working towards bodily exercise when they’re sick or aged, whereas few docs nonetheless prescribe it“.

instruments for docs

To make it simpler for docs to prescribe bodily exercise to sufferers who want it, HAS has made a number of instruments obtainable to them. Initially, the session and medical prescription information for bodily exercise in adults. In it, well being professionals will discover data on the levels of identification of the inactive affected person in danger for bodily exercise on the prescription, on the dispensation, in addition to on the monitoring of bodily exercise.

Then, the HAS additionally publishes varied informative paperwork reminiscent of a abstract sheet of tailored bodily exercise with the procedures for prescribing, renewing and stopping an tailored bodily exercise program. A information information on bodily exercise and bodily inactivity in addition to new sheets for particular pathologies (bronchial asthma, sort 1 diabetes, Parkinson’s illness) are additionally obtainable. Lastly, for every present sheet by illness, a extra concise one is obtainable to docs.

Within the coming weeks, new data booklets can even be revealed for docs on different pathologies (low again ache, a number of sclerosis, chubby and weight problems in kids) but additionally for sufferers. These will handle the advantages of bodily exercise for every pathology in a extra accessible method.