Exercise medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the prevention and treatment of injuries and illness with exercise. In some countries, Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) is a recognized medical specialty (with similar training and standards to other medical specialties). Exercise medicine is therefore an emerging physician (non-surgical) specialty, but there is also a belief that exercise is treatment of such fundamental benefit that it should be incorporated into all medical specialties. Allied health practitioners also can specialize in exercise such as exercise physiologists, physiotherapists, athletic trainers and podiatrists.[1]
Whereas the signature treatment of the specialty of surgery is operative procedures, and the signature treatment of most medical (physician) specialties is the prescription of pharmaceuticals, the signature treatment of Sport and Exercise Medicine is exercise prescription. SEM physician consultations are generally lengthy (over 30 minutes) and 74% involve prescription of exercise, with exercise prescription being the most common treatment.[2]
Evidence for the efficacy of exercise as a medical treatment
There is an enormous amount of evidence proving that exercise (when prescribed as a medical treatment) is effective at preventing and treating most of the major chronic diseases,[3][4] including cancer,[5] cardiovascular diseases,[6][7] arthritis,[8] osteoporosis,[9] back pain,[10][11] diabetes,[12] depression and other mental illnesses and falls in the elderly.[13]
Exercise has been shown to reduce all-cause mortality [15] in a large number of primary studies and meta-analyses.[16][17][18][19]
Exercise and cardiovascular disease
There are multiple ways in which exercise can reduce cardiovascular disease and mortality,[20] including through lowering blood pressure and lowering LDL cholesterol levels.[21] Although multiple mechanisms are possible, the relationship between exercise as measured by accelerometer data and cardiovascular mortality is strong (inverse, non-linear).[22]
Exercise and cancer
Exercise prescription is now a recognized treatment for cancer,[23] as studies have shown that exercise is associated with superior mortality outcomes and lower recurrence rates.[24][25][26]
Exercise both prevents and treats mental illnesses, including depression in particular,[27][28][29] with positive effects likely for anxiety,[30] bipolar disorder[31] and suicidality.[32]
Exercise prescription is not simply a matter of advising or demanding that a patient increases their exercise levels. It requires significant expertise and experience, with core competencies well described.[33] Sudden increase of exercise levels is likely to lead to painful musculoskeletal symptoms or even injury (preventing further exercise).[34][35][36]
The lifetime prevalence of hip and knee osteoarthritis is 13% for competitive runners, 10% for non-runners, but only 4% for moderate social runners, demonstrating a U-shaped curve between running load and arthritis risk (high and low dose = higher risk; moderate load = lower risk).[40] With respect to back pain, increasing levels of exercise reduce risk of back pain,[41] but having occupational manual loading increases the risk.[42] The bottom of the U-shaped curve for injury risk and loading is sometimes referred to as the Goldilocks zone (not too little exercise but not too much).[43][44][45] There also may be a Goldilocks zone for physical activity and all-cause mortality, but at a very high level and with an eccentric U-shape (that is, low exercise levels are far riskier for all-cause mortality than extremely high exercise levels).[46]
The difference between sport and exercise (and hence the differentiation between Sports medicine and Exercise medicine) is subtle, but important. Basically, sport is exercise with an added element of competition (whether against an opponent or oneself, aiming to maximum performance improvements).[47] There is good evidence that competitive and professional athletes have higher rates of certain conditions than the general population, such as osteoarthritis,[48][49] but equally strong evidence that the life expectancy of elite athletes is longer than the general population.[50][51]
Establishment as a medical specialty
Sports medicine is a recognized medical specialty or subspecialty in over 50 countries. In some of these countries, the formal name of the specialty is 'Sport and Exercise Medicine', emphasizing the differentiation between sports medicine (performance-orientated) and exercise medicine (health-orientated). These countries include Australia and New Zealand, with the peak body being the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians and one of Australia's 15 recognized medical specialty Colleges,[52] the United Kingdom (Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK),[53] Canada (Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine), Belgium, Brazil, France, India and Ireland.
Exercise as an alternative treatment to low-value care
There is increasing evidence that many 'traditional' medical interventions are ineffective at best and potentially harmful at worst.[54] Examples of low-value care include knee and shoulder arthroscopy, spinal fusion surgery[55] and opiate prescription for chronic non-cancer pain.[56][57] Exercise prescription, with evidence of efficacy for treatment of knee osteoarthritis and back pain, can be used as an alternative to traditional interventions with poor efficacy and greater side effects.
Exercise as a method to reduce carbon emissions from healthcare
Healthcare is responsible for 3-10% of carbon emissions in Western countries.[58] Although most healthcare is considered 'essential', it is important that the necessity of carbon-intensive healthcare options, such as surgery,[59] is critically assessed as there is an international agreement that net zero emissions must be reached to avoid breakdown of the Earth's climate.[60] Exercise as a medical treatment has perhaps the lowest carbon footprint of any medical treatment.[61] An increased focus on exercise prescription as an effective alternate to carbon-intensive medical treatments is an important part of healthcare reform, which needs to be 'transformational' to reach goals of net-zero emissions from healthcare.[62]
'Exercise is Medicine' is a trademarked non-profit venture of the American College of Sports Medicine. By comparison, 'Exercise Medicine' is a specific subspecialty of 'Sport and Exercise Medicine'. The concept of 'Exercise is Medicine' is that all medical specialists should be prescribing exercise regularly as an adjunct to a standard consultation.[63][64] The aims of the 'Exercise is Medicine' movement and the specialty of Exercise Medicine are generally synergistic, with both aiming to improve physical activity in the population (for whom a large proportion is inactive). Exercise Medicine specialists also consult a smaller subsection of the population who are temporarily over-active and require a slight reduction in load in order to overcome injury or chronic pain. The concept of 'Exercise is Medicine' is as a 5-minute addition to almost every medical consultation, treating exercise as a 'vital sign',[65][66] which has the potential of enormous reach. Exercise medicine specialists aim to also cater for some of those patients who don't respond to the first line measure of a brief written exercise prescription by providing longer specialized consultations with a focus solely on exercise. Exercise Is Medicine has been criticized for making exercise come across as exclusively a medical treatment when it should be seen more broadly as a public health strategy and protective risk factor that should be available to everyone.[67]
Further reading on EIM
Cairney, John; McGannon, Kerry R.; Atkinson, Michael (8 August 2018). "Exercise is medicine: critical considerations in the qualitative research landscape". Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 10 (4): 391–399. doi:10.1080/2159676X.2018.1476010. ISSN2159-676X.
^Christensen, JF; Simonsen, C; Hojman, P (13 December 2018). "Exercise Training in Cancer Control and Treatment". Comprehensive Physiology. 9 (1): 165–205. doi:10.1002/cphy.c180016. PMID30549018. S2CID56492477.
^Cormie, P; Zopf, EM; Zhang, X; Schmitz, KH (1 January 2017). "The Impact of Exercise on Cancer Mortality, Recurrence, and Treatment-Related Adverse Effects". Epidemiologic Reviews. 39 (1): 71–92. doi:10.1093/epirev/mxx007. PMID28453622.
^Orchard, JW (September 2017). "Using technology to measure daily and weekly movement patterns in exercise medicine patients". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 51 (18): 1317–1318. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2016-096736. PMID27884860. S2CID12096034.
^Alentorn-Geli, E; Samuelsson, K; Musahl, V; Green, CL; Bhandari, M; Karlsson, J (June 2017). "The Association of Recreational and Competitive Running With Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis". The Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy. 47 (6): 373–390. doi:10.2519/jospt.2017.7137. PMID28504066. S2CID26434756.
^Orchard, JW (2 April 2018). "How exercise medicine has evolved from sports medicine". The Medical Journal of Australia. 208 (6): 244–245. doi:10.5694/mja17.00764. PMID29614932. S2CID4606643.
^Gouttebarge, V; Inklaar, H; Backx, F; Kerkhoffs, G (March 2015). "Prevalence of osteoarthritis in former elite athletes: a systematic overview of the recent literature". Rheumatology International. 35 (3): 405–18. doi:10.1007/s00296-014-3093-0. PMID25037899. S2CID6763231.
^Ruiz, JR; Fiuza-Luces, C; Garatachea, N; Lucia, A (November 2014). "Reduced mortality in former elite endurance athletes". International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. 9 (6): 1046–9. doi:10.1123/ijspp.2013-0492. PMID24584695.
^Charlesworth, KE; Jamieson, M (July 2019). "Healthcare in a carbon-constrained world". Australian Health Review. 43 (3): 241–245. doi:10.1071/AH17184. PMID29731002. S2CID19201926.
^Lobelo, F; Stoutenberg, M; Hutber, A (December 2014). "The Exercise is Medicine Global Health Initiative: a 2014 update". British Journal of Sports Medicine. 48 (22): 1627–33. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2013-093080. PMID24759911. S2CID26898017.
^Sallis, RE; Matuszak, JM; Baggish, AL; Franklin, BA; Chodzko-Zajko, W; Fletcher, BJ; Gregory, A; Joy, E; Matheson, G; McBride, P; Puffer, JC; Trilk, J; Williams, J (May 2016). "Call to Action on Making Physical Activity Assessment and Prescription a Medical Standard of Care". Current Sports Medicine Reports. 15 (3): 207–14. doi:10.1249/JSR.0000000000000249. PMID27172086. S2CID207179559.
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