Clinical Exercise Physiologist Quiz #3

Clinical Exercise Physiologist correct answers Essential role in prevention, treatment, and recovery from a variety of disease conditions and physical disabilities using physical activities. Practice correct answers Healthy individuals with no medical problems, cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, rheumatologic, orthopedic, and/or neuromuscular diseases and conditions patients. Duties and responsibilites correct answers -Conduct pre-exercise screening -Perform exercise testing and evaluation -Develop exercise prescriptions -Instruct proper training techniques -Supervise safe and effective programs GXT correct answers graded exercise test. Measures degree to which person can increase exercise intensity and maintain that increased level. VO2 max correct answers maximal rate at which oxygen can be taken up, distributed, and used by body during exercise that involves large muscle mass. employment correct answers -Medical type settings Hospitals rehab centers, outpatient clinics, weight management clinics. Nursing homes and retirement communities. -Community, corporate, and commercial fitness centers. -University fitness and wellness centers. William Heberden correct answers In 1796, first person to describe document specific body reactions to angina pectoris (chest pain) during lying down position that subsided with sitting up. Described effect on body and effect during physical exertion. William Stokes correct answers Wrote 1st treatises (A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest) on the use of a stethoscope. Emphasized importance of clinical examinations in forming diagnoses. Jeremy Morris correct answers First person to analyze data on CVD and physical activity in a Study on London bus drivers in 1949. Sedentary drivers of London's double decker buses had higher rates of CVD than conductors who climbed the stairs Herman Hellerstein correct answers Demonstrated that exercise was healthy and effective way to rehabilitate from heart conditions Paved way for clinical exercise physiology and cardiac rehab