Group Exercise

Question 1

What are the benefits of group exercise?

Answer 1

Get results 
Competition 
Motivation
Social interaction - supportive
Seeing hope
Increases wellbeing

Question 2

What are some issues of group exercise?

Answer 2

• Variability of the individual
• Monitoring effects - movement analysis - most watch all patients and need to know them
• all progress at different rates
• need to assess patient at each class
• should be two people running class

Question 3

Considerations of group exercise:

Answer 3

• safety
• instructions
• need to demonstrate exercise on yourself or someone else
• correct movement
• consider different communication issues
• be visible to all of the class - do in circle

Question 4

What is group exercise good for?

Answer 4

Falls prevention
MS
Depression
Osteoporosis
OA 
Rehab 
Antenatal and post natal
Lower back pain

Question 5

What is the criteria for group exercise?

Answer 5

Patient needs to agree
Patient need to be committed
Follow up assessment needed
What happens at the end?
> should look into public initiatives to sign post patients to places after

Question 6

What are the principles of groups exercise?

Answer 6

Know aims
Use your voice
Position yourself
Know names
Plan
Sequence - easy to hard, type of exercise 
Warm up and cool down

Question 7

What are the kinds of class?

Answer 7

Education
Exercise
Hydrotherapy

Question 8

How can patients be group in exercise?

Answer 8

Circuit
One group- all together
Pairs
Teams
Small groups - 8/10
Large groups

Question 9

How to patients attend group exercise?

Answer 9

Strict selection criteria 
Referral
Physio pre assessment clinic
Gp referral
Consultant referral but must still assess

Question 10

What is group exercise?

Answer 10

Delivering physio to a group of individuals