Benefits of Prescription of Exercise in Primary Care

Abstract

Summary

Objective: to show the benefits of proper prescription of exercise in healthy patients and in those with pathologies such as obesity, Diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, obesity, asthma, and osteoarthritis. Material and methods: documentary research. Descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective study. It was held between January and May, 2012. It included the search for articles published in medical journals both in original and review articles in the following databases: Cochrane, PubMed and Science Direct. Results: through the analysis of 37 selected articles it is ratified that physical activity and exercise can be a means of prevention and rehabilitation in the case of diseases that have modifying risk factors. Conclusions: the Family Physician challenge is to identify each patient, considering different factors such as individual life cycle, sex, physical limitations, base pathologies and state of health. Likewise, the physician must also support the patient in order that it is the patient who involves physical activity and exercise in their daily lives.