January 3, 2017.
From March 1, 2017, doctors will be able to prescribe physical activity for patients with long-term illnesses.
Personalized and progressive support
According to a decree published on Saturday, December 31, 2016 in the Official Journal, doctors will be able from next March to prescribe some of their patients to play sports. Physical activity should be prescribed ” in agreement with the patient “ and will be ” adapted to the pathology, physical capacities and medical risk ”Of it, specifies the decree.
Patients who are prescribed sports classes will also have to suffer from long-lasting ailments., such as cancers, type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, cystic fibrosis or multiple sclerosis. ” Patient care is personalized and progressive in terms of form, intensity and duration of exercise », Can we still read in this decree, desired by the deputy Valérie Fourneyron, former Minister of Sports.
Reduce risk factors
The physical activity can be conducted by a health professional, such as a physiotherapist, or by a qualified sports teacher to support patients. It is however specified that in the event of severe functional limitations, only healthcare professionals may accompany patients.
Finally, the decree specifies that this physical activity which will be prescribed will have “ for goal “To allow the patient to adopt” a physically active lifestyle on a regular basis “, in order to ” reduce the risk factors and functional limitations associated with the long-term condition “. In patients with cystic fibrosis, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends regular physical activity throughout life.
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