Exercises and Sports Medicine - Dr Amin Azhari - دکتر امین اظهری

Exercises and Sports Medicine

Exercising is declining in population worldwide

70% of Americans don’t exercise regularly.
38% of Americans don’t exercise at all.
45% of high school students do not take PE classes.
American heart association (AHA) says that children now take 90 seconds longer to run a mile than 35 years ago, due to lack of gym in school, TV, video games and safety concerns.

Exercising and children

Results of Not Exercising Not Good

Results of Not Exercising Not Good

People are now dying mainly of their own lifestyle (nutrition, sedentary lifestyle, and smoking)

Heart disease
Diabetes
Obesity
Cancer
Stroke

Exercise has many benefits

Exercise can increase myocardial mass, coronary artery size, cardiac efficiency, maximal cardiac output, and HDL
It can decrease resting/exercise heart rate, sensitivity/catecholamine levels, and blood pressure
Useful for patients with diabetes mellitus
Brain & cognition
- Exercise improves your memory
- Makes you smarter
- Helps prevent Alzheimer’s
- Reduces/Reverses brain shrinkage

Exercise Critical for Children
- Exercise enhances math-logic-reading
- Vigorous workout as good as Ritalin for many kids with ADHD
- Hippocampus improves with exercise
Strength can reduce musculoskeletal pains
- Knee pain (Let’s See the Video)
- Shoulder pain (Let’s See the Video)
- Neck pain (Let’s See the Video)
- Low back pain (Let’s See the Video)
- Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) (Let’s See the Video)

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Exercise has many benefits

Recent Studies Show

Aerobic exercise can help you to fight depression. (Details)
Professional Athletes may have better performance at nights. (Details)
Even mild exercises immediately affect cognition. (Details)
Children and adolescents who exercise regularly will face lower risk of osteoporosis in elderly. (Details)