Physiological Changes and Adaptations to Exercise and Inactivity in Healthy Populations

Explain the acute physiological changes and long-term adaptations to the body’s systems to exercise and inactivity in healthy and selected populations.

Explain the acute physiological changes and long-term adaptations to the body’s systems to exercise and inactivity in healthy and selected populations.

Identify and interpret physiological, functional and behavioral issues specific to the individual and develop goals to address these issues.

Identify and interpret physiological, functional and behavioral issues specific to the individual and develop goals to address these issues from your analysis of the case study, you should be able.

Justify and demonstrate the principles, applications and safe practice of exercise testing and functional assessment in healthy and selected populations.  

Briefly describe the purpose of the assessment but do not provide detail on how to conduct the test. By referencing appropriate literature, the reader can refer to specifics of completion.

From your analysis of the case study, you should be able to identify key problems and state clear goals based on the issues that you have identified. You need to identify specific problems (that she has currently) that relate to her function, physiology and patient perception/beliefs. She may also have potential problems (i.e. Is mrs. Door at risk of developing further health conditions).

 Next, you need to set realistic goals for mrs. Door. You should include and justify one to two meaningful goals that mrs. Door would think up. These are usually related to functional activities she has difficulty with and wants to improve (e.g. Difficulty with stairs). They could be short term (within the next few weeks) and/or long term (next few months). Your goals should follow the framework of smart and be justified with appropriate research.  

You can present your key problems and goals in table format. However, you must ensure that you that you describe key problems and goals in your main text. You are given an example from a past student on describing meaningful goals and part of a table demonstrating problem identification, goal setting and research to support goal.

You are a physiotherapist who runs exercised-based rehabilitation programmes for patients with chronic conditions. You have received a referral from the anesthetic department for mrs. Door, a 67-year-old caucasian female, with a history of diabetes who will have pancreatic surgery to remove a benign tumor in 12 weeks time.  Your patient was initially assessed via cardiopulmonary exercise testing at the hospital, and you were given the following information.  

Mrs door identifies herself as an european who was “born and bred” In west auckland. She has been divorced for a number of years and lives alone. She has a strong connection to the house and land (whenua) she has lived in for 50 years. She has a close relationship with her two sons (whakapapa whanau) who live in hamilton and taupo. With further conversation you find out that her eldest son teaches at the school you once went to in hamilton (whakawhanaugatanga). She does not drive and usually relies on public transport. However, she has close friends (kaupapa wh?nau) who often provide her with transport for shopping on a wednesday. As she lives 20 km from the clinic this is the only day she could come to physiotherapy (taiao).