A process whereby individuals demonstrate knowledge and proficiency in content, skills, and abilities of the specific areas for which they are intending to work.
What is certification?
This is a sports medicine professional, with a professional credential, who is involved in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries to physically active individuals and athletes
What is an athletic trainer?
The study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in specifically defined populations.
What is epidemiology?
The goal of this study was to understand the impact that exercise had on various health outcomes such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and obesity.
What is the Harvard Alumni Study?
This is the largest exercise science and sports medicine organization in the world, with more than 50,000 international, national, and regional chapter members and certified professionals and offers individual certification programs in health fitness, clinical, and specialty areas.
What is the American College of Sports Medecine?
Additional professional education that is required to maintain certification, licensure, or registration.
What are continuing education units?
In general, an exercise science student will need additional undergraduate coursework in physics or engineering or, possibly, a graduate degree (MS or PhD) to work as this type of professional
What is a biomechanist?
The process of enabling people to increase their control over and improvements in their health.
What is health promotion?
The original goal of this study was to identify common factors or characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease.
What is the Framingham Heart Study?
The program initiative of this association is "Project Power."
What is the American Diabetes Association?
Providing certified documents showing that an individual is entitled to credit or has a right to perform certain functions or actions.
What is credentialing?
These professionals are responsible for performing health and fitness assessments, developing and implementing exercise prescriptions, and monitoring the effectiveness of the interventions.
What are Clinical Exercise Physiologists?
Modifiable risk factors for this include:
Smoking
High blood cholesterol
Uncontrolled high blood pressure
Physical inactivity
Obesity and overweight
What is Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)?
The purpose of the study was to assess the effects of four newly defined American Heart Association lifestyle factors on mortality.
What is the American Center Longitudinal Study?
This agency oversees the National School Lunch Program.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Division?
The granting of permission by an official or legal authority (usually a state government agency or board) to an individual or organization to engage in the legal practice of a professional activity that would otherwise be illegal.
What is licensure?
These professionals assist individuals with physically, mentally, emotionally, or developmentally limiting conditions to maintain or improve working skills and daily function.
What are occupational therapists?
A type of exercise training designed to produce fast, powerful movements and improve the functions of the neuromuscular system for the purposes of improving sport performance.
What is plyometric training?
The goal of this survey is to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States.
What is the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey?
This organization's policy is "Heart disease and stroke: you're the cure."
What is the American Heart Association?
The granting of an academic program the standing of meeting acceptable criteria for the preparation of students enrolled in the program.
What is program accreditation?
These professionals work with a variety of individual and team sport athletes to increase muscular strength and endurance, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, and movement skills in an effort to improve athletic performance.
What is a strength and conditioning coach?
Measurement of selected metabolites, transcription factors and proteins to better understand the metabolism of the human body
What is metabolomics?
The year that the Framingham Heart Study began.
What is 1948?
Directors of Health Promotion and Education's program initiative.
What is Plan4Health?