Pre Activity Health Screening and Customer Care

Effect of Exercise on Arterial Pressure and Vascular Resistance Abbie DeBerg Ms. Brantley May 30, 2012

Physical Activity (PA) has many benefits on our health, and importance of this has to be clearly communicated (House of Commons Health Committee 2015). Therefore, the purpose of this report is to discuss relationship between PA, health and diseases along with specific references to the current United Kingdom (UK) health status. This report will also explain two examples of social determinants of health, to show the impact failing to reach government guidelines has on remaining healthy.

He or she can also evaluate how a person does an activity and make suggestions for doing the activity in a way that is less likely to result in an injury.

The value of administering health related physical fitness test in school is to perceive how physically dynamic the students are and if they are not then an approach to offer the students some assistance with becoming all the more physically dynamic to maintain a strategic distance from health related issues on account of absence of physical fitness. If I were administering the testing I would do class by class to guarantee there is sufficient space to do the test and to keep all paperwork and not lose any information. I would share the data with the parents and students in a parent meeting so that they all know how physically dynamic the students are and forestall health related malady in the school like diabetes and

During exercise there is an increase in cardiac output, which corresponds to an increase in maximal oxygen consumption. With the increase in oxygen consumption, a greater increase in blood flow occurs. This means there is more oxygen circulating in the blood for the tissues to take up. Due to the increase in blood flow, vasoconstriction of arterioles occurs to maintain mean arterial pressure (Bassett & Edward, 1997). This limits oxygen consumption because some of the blood flow is directed to the brain and skin. It is further pointed out that the heart is another limiting factor because it determines how much blood and oxygen are supplied to the muscles especially when blood flow exceeds maximal cardiac output (Bassett & Edward,

[www.nutrition.org.uk] Therefore, any form of exercise is encouraged to increase energy output, as well as reducing energy output obtained from the diet. High Blood Pressure, or Hypertension, has been related to

Ruth has been endurance training for 6 months and has increased the size of her heart including the size of her ventricles, increasing her end-diastolic volume (EDV) (Case & Waterhouse, 1994). Ruth’s larger EDV means that there will be a larger volume of blood in the ventricles; according to the Frank-Starling

In this particular district P.E. is required 5 days a week. The levels of fitness were gauged off of the FITNESSGRAM battery test, which is give twice a year. FITNESSGRAM is endorsed by the American College of Sports Medicine as a reliable and valid test. There are 5 major components of the test: body composition, aerobic capacity, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibly. A multitude of test are used to access the students overall health in those 5

approprite physical activity. However , I do not beleive it has the ablitiy to properly give these individuals the correct assement of their health for activities . It is very important that a individual can be confident in a test

With cost effectiveness and money saving seemingly being a keystone of health care in the United States, low cost preventative health care and screening programs are at the forefront of budgetary meetings in government agencies and boardrooms across the nation. According to a 2010 study of the cost effectiveness of preventive care, there is a possibility of savings of $3.7 Billion if current programs could increase use to around 90 %(Maciosek, et. al., 2010). While cost will always be a consideration, there obviously is the human element that must be addressed at the ground level. Inspiring people to use government or state funded programs is no easy task as the people who are not using them are the ones who need the programs the most(Dryden, et. al. 2012). Below is an exploration of some successful and unsuccessful programs, and some ideas on improving use of these programs by the people who need them the most.

Individuals who suffer from heart conditions, particularly adult and aged athletes are those who have had previously suffered from high blood pressure, experienced a heart attack or any other heart problems. Prescribed exercises for individuals within this group demonstrates low risk during participation and considerable health benefits. Health benefits through exercise reduces blood pressure levels, however in order to gain full benefits exercise must be linked with a balanced diet (low fat and low salt intake)

The effects of exercise on blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate and electrical activity of the heart were assessed. The measurements of respiration rate, pulse rate and blood pressures were noted as described in Harris-Haller (2016). Data was first taken from subjects in a relaxed position and then followed by sets of reading after exercising based on one minute intervals. The data also noted sitting ECG traces from Harris-Haller (2016). The respiratory rate, pulse, blood pressure, P wave, QRS complex and T wave were defined for each subject. The class average was calculated for males and females and graphed to illustrate the results by gender for each cardiopulmonary factor.

The PAR-Q physical ability questionnaire which stands for Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire, is intended for any individual wanting to start in any physical activity and wants to know more about their physical ability. The entire process takes approximately five minutes and is a quick way of doing some self-assessment. By doing a health risk appraisal questionnaire like the PAR-Q or any other pre-screening questionnaire helps one to see if they are fit for the activity at that moment. It also brings awareness for the presence of risk factors for various conditions such as bone or joint problems or heart and pulmonary problems along with the possibility of metabolic disease and other things that need to be addressed and may require special

The fundamental purpose of fitness testing is an evaluation of an individual’s baseline physical fitness capabilities through a series of testing done for each health and fitness related components of an athlete, fitness testing is the starting point for the designing of fitness program for their specific sport to have desired goals to monitor their improvement and to identify the strength and weaknesses. Physical testing is having many benefits for athletes as it gives an inside of their individualistic abilities for their specific sport. Many of the benefits of fitness testing include;

The amount of blood pumped out during systole is called the stroke volume and is less than the end diastolic volume because the ventricles do not completely empty themselves during systole. At all levels of physical activity stroke volume is increased. There is an improvement in ventricular performance with an increase of plasma volume [4] and a faster peak lengthening the rate of the left ventricle during diastole [6]. Training can improve stroke volume but by no more then about 20%. Due to the decreased heart rate an increase of ventricular filling will result and an increase in ventricular volume and thickening of ventricular walls thus