Increasing Physical Activity in Patients with Obesity and Physical Restrictions

Overview:

Physical Activity is an important component in the management of patients with obesity, improve outcomes of chronic medical problems and improve health and wellbeing. There are several factors that prevent patients from exercising including physical restriction, lack of information and resources, lack of time and motivation as well as physicians’ discomfort and lack of knowledge in counseling patients on increasing physical activity through exercise. Primary care physicians address preventive care and chronic medical problems and are uniquely poised in encouraging physical activity in their patients. This presentation will provide information and resources for primary care physicians in counseling their patients on increasing physical activity and improve health outcomes especially in patients with obesity and physical restrictions.

Objectives:

• Describe current CDC recommendations on physical activity for health and weight loss.
• Identify abnormal physical changes in patients with overweight and obesity that limit physical activity.
• Develop practical exercise recommendations for patients that can be used by primary care physicals in the clinical setting.
• Identify patients who need exercise stress testing prior to exercise.
• Develop an exercise prescription.

Presenters:

Richel Avery, MD, FAAFP, DABOM
Associate Professor/Clinical
Family and Community Medicine
Obesity Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Jeff Svec, MD, CAQSM
Assistant Professor/Clinical
Family and Community Medicine
Sports Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Financial Disclosures:

Richel Avery, MD and Jeff Svec, MD have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, Yun Shi, MD, Mark Nadeau, MD, Marcy Wiemers, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Gabriela Gibson-Lopez, PsyD, Margaret Finley, MD, Richel Avery, MD, Lauren Fuller, MD, Jeff Svec, MD, Oralia Bazaldua, PharmD and Nichole Rubio) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu