Monday, March 4, 2013

Treating Diseases with Sports

Exercise is recommended to keep your body healthy and active. However, not all types of exercises are suitable for everyone. Sports should be tailored to the functional condition of the body.
In healthy individuals, may not have any worries in doing different kinds of exercises. But for people who have had a heart attack, diabetes, or obesity, duration and frequency of exercise should be adjusted.
"Exercise should be done by people who are healthy or are suffering from a particular disease. Fact, exercise should be an important part of therapeutic treatment of patients," said Dr.Benedict Tan, Director of Changi Sports Medicine Centre, Jakarta (3/4/13).



For example, for patients with asthma. In some sports it can trigger an asthma attack. But research shows physically active will make the asthma attacks become less frequent. Besides the proper exercise will also make asthma patients maintain weight, improve the immune system, and more energetic.
Unfortunately, according to Tan, although doctors say to patients about the importance of exercise but not all doctors can provide a "recipe" that proper exercise regimens that are tailored for each patient so that the sport itself could work as well as medication.
"Most doctors are not sure to provide an appropriate exercise regimen that they recommend patients to come to the coach., On the other hand, the trainer at the fitness center does not want to train patients who have a history of disease," he said.
A global initiative called Exercise is Medicine (EIM) was created to encourage physicians or health care providers to include exercise as part of the recipe of their patients.
EIM was first launched by the American College of Sports Medicine. Initiatives that have been implemented in 34 countries was conducted to train the doctors in order to provide "recipes" appropriate exercise for their patients. In addition it also trained sports coaches or therapists physiotherapy exercise regimen in order to translate from a doctor.
In Southeast Asia, EIM initiatives already under way in Singapore for two years. In negari Lions, according to Tan, there are three hospitals that implement this initiative.
"We are working with a variety of specialists, ranging from oncologists, heart, until the department of psychiatry because exercise shown to reduce the risk of depression and dementia," he said.
In Indonesia, EIM will be introduced. The initiative is facilitated by the Coco Cola Indonesia. "One of our commitments is to encourage active living behaviors and balanced. With regular exercise and a healthy person will finally be happy. This is in line with the mission of Coca Cola, making people happy," said Titi Sadarini, Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications Director, Coca Cola Indonesia on the same occasion.

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