17 Jan 2022 Dr. Josh Levin: Exercise Prescriptions – Evidence and clinical applications
Dr. Josh Levin Prescribes Exercise: Should You?
Many physicians might see the value of exercise, but how much effort do they put in to encourage patients to be more active?
Dr. Josh Levin, a GP in Victoria, has a high regard for the value of exercise in improving a patients’ mental and physical health.
He presented his approach to exercise prescriptions at the Therapeutics Initiative’s annual course, Bringing the Best Evidence to Clinicians Conference on October 16th.
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Posted at 09:42h, 20 JanuaryThis is great. Thank you Dr. Levin. I recall an exercise prescription book that came out of Finland circa 2000-2005. I used to have a pdf copy. Did you know about that book? It had chapters on diseases and the appropriate exercise for each, teaching the physician how to work out a program for the patient with progression and follow up. Seemed radical for the med profession, then. I think the proliferation of exercise physiology really began a push then too.
I had experience with an exercise based orthopedic rehabs circa 2000, really the first or among the first was Dr. Lyle Gross rehab medicine specialist. Gross and his team taught patients how to use exercise for their illness and pain control and how to substitute exercise for pain drugs. Something shifted with the advent of Oxycontin. Prior to that, as a patient I was supported by the rehab profession on with exercise therapy for my pain. Lately I have been only pushed to consider Oxycontin and other such drugs. I refuse. It seems to me Dr. Gross’s initiative has been forgotten. Yes, there are still orthopedic rehab centres, but they don’t stress exercise therapy for disability and pain the way the earlier clinics did.
Alan Cassels @ TI
Posted at 12:34h, 25 JanuaryThank you for your comments. Dr. Levin says that he recommends that manual to other docs for more in-depth information to support exercise prescriptions.
It can be found here: In Swedish it is called the FYSS; in English, it is entitled Physical Activity in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
Andrea Gradidge
Posted at 06:30h, 30 MarchThis book is available in English as pdf format. I googled it and found that the 2016 version is being translated into English.
I am a rehabilitation assistant in BC and use prescribed exercises with patients who have had orthopedic surgery for hip and knee replacements, CVA exercises for recovery, etc.