Elsevier has recently published a new ‘Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke’ book. Edited by Professor Gillian Mead and Dr Frederike van Wijck and with contributions from the LLT team, Susie Dinan-Young, Bex Townley, Sara Paul and John Dennis, this book is a must read for all those working with stroke patients in your services.…
Exercise and Bone Health.Omnabele-Pearson G, Skelton DA. In: Managing Osteoporosis. Lanham-New S, O’Neill T, Morris R, Skelton D, Sutcliffe A (eds). Clinical Publishing, Oxford 2007; pp 151-168. ISBN 1 904392 73 3. Click here to read.
Guidelines for Exercise Programming for the Frail Elderly have been published by the Better Ageing Collaborative based on the results of the European Commission Framework V Better Ageing Project. The project used the FaME programme as the basis of the exercise intervention and the original protocol for the FaME exercise intervention is cited. You can…
Sheena Gawler and Dawn Skelton wrote this article for FitPro in 2008. Click here to download.
Exercise Leadership in Cardiac Rehabilitation: An evidence-based approach by Morag Thow. Available on Amazon.
Senior Fitness Test Manual: Easy-to-Use Way of Measuring Fitness Levels in Older Adults by Roberta E. Rikli and C. Jessie Jones. Available from Human Kinetics.
Physical Activity and the Older Adult: A Knowledge Base for Managing Exercise Programs by Devin Govindasamy. Available from Amazon.
Exercise Programming for Older Adults by Janie Clark. Available from Amazon.
Exercise and Fitness for the Older Adult by the American Association for Active Lifestyles and Fitness and edited by Wayne H. Osness. Available from Amazon.
Promoting Exercise and Behavior Change in Older Adults: Interventions with the Transtheoretical Model by Patricia M. Burbank and Deborah Riebe. Available from Amazon.
