ACSM’s Recommendations for Exercise Preparticipation Health Screening

A Journal link to updated ACSM’s Recommendations for Exercise Preparticipation Health Screening.

A new evidence-informed model for exercise preparticipation health screening is based on three factors: 1) the individual’s current level of physical activity, 2) presence of signs or symptoms and/or known cardiovascular, metabolic, or renal disease, and 3) desired exercise intensity, as these variables have been identified as risk modulators of exercise-related cardiovascular events. Identifying cardiovascular disease risk factors remains an important objective of overall disease prevention and management, but risk factor profiling is no longer included in the exercise preparticipation health screening process. The new ACSM exercise preparticipation health screening recommendations reduce possible unnecessary barriers to adopting and maintaining a regular exercise program, a lifestyle of habitual physical activity, or both, and thereby emphasize the important public health message that regular physical activity is important for all individuals.

Updating ACSM_s Recommendations for Exercise Preparticipation Health Screening