presented by Eydie Kendall, PT, PhD, CAPE, PCS
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Eydie Kendall, PT, PhD, CAPE, PCS
Dr. Kendall has more than 30 years of experience as a physical therapist in a multitude of environments, with the last 20 focusing on pediatrics. She is a board-certified clinical specialist in pediatrics. She is also a certified adapted physical educator. A lifetime of outdoor experience and multisport endurance participation, coaching, and program development has…
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1. Introduction to Pediatric Fitness
This chapter reviews the various aspects of fitness, making comparisons of the child to the adult in muscle activation, flexibility, aerobic capacity, and body composition. Instruction on determining and interpreting BMI percentiles for children is provided.
2. Assessment of Pediatric Fitness
This chapter covers strategies for measuring fitness, from formal exercise testing to more clinically available methods and instruments. Adaptations and considerations for popular motor tests used by physical therapists and adapted physical educators are discussed.
3. Fitness and Common Pediatric Conditions
This chapter looks at some of the more common diagnoses in children often seen on the caseload of physical therapists and describes how fitness should be considered in their care. The chapter also discusses “lack of fitness” as a condition that impacts the ability of a child to move and provides evidence that it is a pathway to disability.
4. Intervention for Fitness
This chapter describes the recommendations for amount and type of activities that can improve fitness for typical children and those with neuromuscular challenges. It also describes the environment and the family as determining factors of fitness, and ways to incorporate these considerations in setting up a healthy lifestyle.
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