Exercise for Chronic Disease
This course reviews the basic principles of aerobic and anaerobic fitness and their relationship with health and disease. Students will learn and practice how to construct, implement, and modify personalized exercise programs for patients/clients with and without chronic disease and across the lifespan. Students also learn how to evaluate and read research papers that are based on exercise practices and procedures.
Course Details
Audience: Health and wellness professionals
Method: Online
Duration: 8 weeks
Graduate application: Not required
Credits: See Course Credit section below
Continuing Education Units: 45
Cost: $800
This Course is Offered on the Following Dates
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Course Objectives
By the end of this class, students will be able to:
- Explain the effects of exercise on certain chronic diseases.
- Model effective communication skills with the course instructor and fellow students.
- Explain the pathophysiology of depression, obesity and hypertension.
- Evaluate an individualized exercise program for safety and risk aversion.
- Develop an individualized exercise program for persons with and without chronic disease and across the lifespan.
The course is designed to help health professionals, those involved in health coaching for chronic disease, and others better understand exercise management for persons with chronic diseases and disabilities.
Required Materials
Participants will be required to purchase three books:
- Jonas S, Phillips EM. ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine. A Clinicians Guide to Exercise Prescription. Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Philadelphia. 2009. ISBN-13: 978-1582557397
- Moore GE, Durstine L, Painter PL. ACSM’s Exercise Management for Persons with Chronic Diseases and Disabilities, 4th Edition. Human Kinetics. Champaign. 2016. ISBN-13: 978-1-4504-3414-0
- Lenz TL. Lifestyle Medicine for Chronic Diseases: An Introduction to the Evidence-Based Approach of Managing Chronic Diseases with Lifestyle Therapeutics, Second Edition. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press; 2019. ISBN: 978-0-359-23972-6.
Course Credit and CE
This CE course is approved by NBHWC for 45 continuing education units.
This is one of the courses within the Graduate Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine and the Master of Science in Integrative Health and Wellness. Individuals who complete this course and then enroll in the certificate or degree program may also be eligible for up to three hours of awarded credit toward their degree or certificate. In order to apply credits for this course to a degree or certificate program, you will be required to pay the difference in cost between the CE course and tuition.
Continuing education and professional development courses may be cancelled by the attendee in writing up to 7 days before the course begins for a full refund, less a $25 processing fee. No refund will be given 7 days prior to the course. Some courses are not eligible for a refund; these exceptions are noted in specific course descriptions. In the event of a weather related closure, the course will be rescheduled.
Student interactions and viewpoints are a vital part of our rich learning environment. For this reason, Creighton reserves the right to cancel courses in the case of low registration numbers. In this case, registrants will receive a full refund. If a course is cancelled by the University for other non-weather related issues, the student will be notified and a full refund will be processed.
