Rehabilitation

Exercise Testing and Prescription

The benefits of exercises and physical activities have been proven for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular morbidity and many illnesses. The result of exercise testing is the basic data for exercise prescription because of wide range of fitness on the same age and sex. Cardiopulmonary endurance, muscle strength and endurance, flexibility and balance ability are the basic components of fitness measurement. Clinical Exercise Testing and Prescription combines discussions on clinical exercise testing, exercise electrocardiography, clinical exercise physiology, and principles of exercise prescription in one complete source.