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Evidence: Improves balance and balance confidence; Improves cardiopulmonary function; Improves lower limb strength; Improves physical function; Improves quality of life; Improves self esteem; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Reduces back pain; Reduces morbidity and mortality; Reduces risk of falls

Evidence: Can reduce anxiety symptoms in the non-clinical population; Exercising in nature can help reduce anxiety; Improves Quality of life; Improves anxiety symptoms; Increases energy levels and reduces fatigue.; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Mindful exercise may reduce anxiety; Reduces Anxiety in the elderly; Reduces Generalised Anxiety Disorder; Reduces Social Anxiety; Reduces agoraphobia; Reduces risk of developing anxiety; Resistance training can reduce anxiety.

Evidence: Able to walk further; Decreased time in hospital /bad days; Feeling more energetic / Less Fatigued; Improved Quality of Life; Improves Balance/Falls; Improves Mood; Increased Confidence and increased self esteem; Increased Independence; Increased strength; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Living well for longer; Reduced feeling of breathlessness; Reduced number of exacerbations

Evidence: Helps body composition; Helps depression; Helps lymphoedema; Helps restore wellbeing; Improves cancer-related fatigue; Improves cardiorespiratory fitness; Improves cognitive function; Improves menopausal symptoms; Improves physical function; Improves quality of life; Improves sleep quality; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Physical activity has been shown to reduce the length of hospital stay in cancer patients; Reduces post-operative complications

Evidence: Improve socialisation, reduce loneliness, improve global well-being; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Prevent frailty, falls and improve mobility; Promoting brain health and reducing risk of dementia and cognitive decline; Reduce stress, reduce anxiety and improve mood

Evidence: Improves cognition; Improves mood; Improves motivation; Improves self confidence; Improves sleep; Less fatigue and improves energy levels; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Moderates appetite; Reduces sickness absence in the short-term for mild to moderate depression; Reduces social isolation; Reduces stress level

Falls and Frailty

Evidence: Better balance; Faster walking speed; Improves functional ability; Improves the ability to perform activities of daily living; Increased muscle strength; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Reduces falls and falls risk; Reduces falls related injuries; Reduces severity and progression of frailty

Hospital Associated Deconditioning

Evidence: Improves muscle strength; Improves the ability to perform day to day activities; Improves walking and movement; Keep the brain and mind working well; Keep the brain and mind working well; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; May increase likelihood of being discharged home; May reduce length of stay in hospital; May reduce risk of delirium; May reduce risk of urinary incontinence; No evidence that causes harm

Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease

Evidence: Enhance mood; Enhances mood; Get a better night’s sleep; Helps manage stiffness; Improve Muscle Strength; Improve your ability to carry out daily activities; Improves Disease activity; Improves disease activity; Improves fatigue; Improves fitness; Improves hand function; Improves lung function; Improves mobility; Improves mood; Improves muscle strength; Improves quality of life; Improves sleep; Keep your neck and back flexible; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Maintain ability to carry out everyday activities; Manage Fatigue; May increase insulin sensitivity; May reduce cardiovascular risk factors; Reduce pain; Reduces pain

Ischaemic Heart Disease

Evidence: Helps prevent early death and hospital admissions; Helps prevent fatigue and stress; Helps to prevent Development of Heart Failure; Helps to prevent Inflammation within blood vessels; Helps to prevent Risk of a further heart attacks; Improves energy, fitness and quality of life; Improves how effectively your heart beats; Improves the blood flow around the body; Improves the perception of chest pain; Increased blood flow to the heart; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Lowers risk factors eg Cholesterol, Diabetes, High blood pressure; Makes you live longer

Evidence: Improves balance; Improves fitness; Improves function; Improves general health; Improves general wellbeing; Improves mental health; Improves physical function; Improves physical function in chronic pain; Improves quality of life; Improves self-efficacy; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Reduces frequency of painful episodes; Reduces pain; Reduces stiffness; Reduces work absence

Evidence: Helps Regulate Weight; Improves Anxiety and Depression; Improves Sleep; Improves muscle tone and decreases body fat; Improves sexual function, urogenital symptoms and vaginal dryness; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; May Improve symptoms of vaginal dryness; May help alleviate joint pain; May reduce the perceived impact of hot flushes; Pelvic floor exercises improve urinary incontinence

Evidence: Improves VO2 Max; Can help improve blood sugar levels; Improves General Fitness; Improves Mental Health; Improves asthma control; Improves bone health; Improves lean body mass; Improves lipid profile; Improves muscle strength; Improves walking ability and independence; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; May improve mortality; May improve quality of life; No increase in appetite; Reduces blood pressure; Reduces body fat; Reduces visceral adiposity; Reduces waist circumference; Reduces weight and BMI

Evidence: Can decrease gait freezing; Can reduce muscle fatigue; Can reduce tremor; Improves Quality of Life and the ability to do everyday activities; Improves balance and reduces falls; Improves cardiorespiratory fitness; Improves gait, walking speed and endurance; Improves mood and confidence, reduces anxiety; Improves sleep; Improves strength; Keeps the brain and mind working well; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; May delay progression of Parkinson’s, reduce the need for medications to be started or increased; Physical Activity is safe

Perioperative care

Evidence: Improves functional capacity and cardiopulmonary fitness; Improves mental health and quality of life; Improves post operative recovery and function; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Post op- reduces post operative complications and length of hospital stay; Reduces cancer mortality and risk of cancer recurrence; Reduces post-operative complications and length of hospital stay

Evidence: Helps control weight gain; Helps prevent blood pressure problems; Helps prevent diabetes of pregnancy; Helps sleep; Improves fitness; Improves mental wellbeing

Primary Prevention

Evidence: Improves cognitive function; Improves mental health; Improves mood; Live longer; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Maintains healthy weight; Reduces chance of falls

Evidence: Better mobility; Improved Mood; Improved balance; Improved fitness; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Reduced risk of further stroke

Type 1 Diabetes

Evidence: Decreases cholesterol, lipids and triglycerides; Decreases insulin use; Exercise improves glucose levels; Improved insulin resistance; Improves HbA1c; Improves cardiorespiratory fitness and VO2; Improves general fitness; Improves physical fitness; Interrupted sitting improves glucose levels; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; No effect on BMI or blood pressure; Prolongs the honeymoon period; Reduces all-cause mortality; There is an increased risk of hypo/hyper - glycaemic episodes post exercise

Type 2 Diabetes

Evidence: Empowers people to feel in control; Improves blood pressure; Improves general fitness; Improves glycaemic control; Improves life expectancy; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Reduces need for medications; Reduces risk of cardiovascular complications; Reduces risk of diabetic complications

Evidence: Improved blood pressure control and benefits for the cardiovascular system; Improved cardiovascular fitness; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises

Condition

Evidence: Enjoyment of exercise; Improvement in peak flow readings; Improves quality of life; Improving physical and cardiovascular fitness; Improving strength; No worsening of symptoms; Reducing asthma symptoms; Reducing breathlessness and perceived effort during physical activity; Reducing inflammatory blood markers; Weight loss

Evidence: Decreased fatigue; Improved psychological health; Improvement in Cardio-pulmonary fitness; Improvement in body composition and BMI; Improvement in musculoskeletal health; Improvement in quality of life

Evidence: Helps improve diabetes control (reduces HbA1C); Improves body composition; Improves bone mineral density; Improves cardiovascular fitness and reduces overall mortality; Improves lipid profile; Reduces amount of insulin needed (improves insulin sensitivity); Reduces risk of hypoglycaemia, particularly severe hypoglycaemia

Evidence: Improve growth and bone mass; Improves mental well-being; Improves psychosocial health in children

Evidence: Exercise can be an effective treatment option for adolescents diagnosed with depression.; Higher levels of sport and physical activity and lower levels of sedentary activity are associated with fewer symptoms of depression in the future; Physical activity can improve body image for children and adolescents; Physical activity can improve self-esteem for children and adolescents; Physical activity can reduce symptoms of anxiety for children and adolescents; Physical activity to improve school life satisfaction; Symptoms of depression are often in lower in children and adolescents who are more physically active

Evidence: Improved biochemical markers; Improved body composition; Improved bone health; Improved cardiovascular health; Improved cognitive health; Improved mental health

Condition

Evidence: Enjoyment of exercise; Improvement in peak flow readings; Improves quality of life; Improving physical and cardiovascular fitness; Improving strength; No worsening of symptoms; Reducing asthma symptoms; Reducing breathlessness and perceived effort during physical activity; Reducing inflammatory blood markers; Weight loss

Evidence: Decreased fatigue; Helps anxiety; Helps body composition; Helps depression; Helps lymphoedema; Helps restore wellbeing; Improved psychological health; Improvement in Cardio-pulmonary fitness; Improvement in body composition and BMI; Improvement in musculoskeletal health; Improvement in quality of life; Improves cancer-related fatigue; Improves cardiorespiratory fitness; Improves cognitive function; Improves menopausal symptoms; Improves physical function; Improves quality of life; Improves sleep quality; Physical activity has been shown to reduce the length of hospital stay in cancer patients; Reduces post-operative complications

Evidence: Helps improve diabetes control (reduces HbA1C); Improves body composition; Improves bone mineral density; Improves cardiovascular fitness and reduces overall mortality; Improves lipid profile; Reduces amount of insulin needed (improves insulin sensitivity); Reduces risk of hypoglycaemia, particularly severe hypoglycaemia

Evidence: Improve growth and bone mass; Improves mental well-being; Improves psychosocial health in children

Evidence: Children and adolescents who participate in sporting activity can have lower symptoms of depression; Exercise can be an effective treatment option for adolescents diagnosed with depression.; Higher levels of sport and physical activity and lower levels of sedentary activity are associated with fewer symptoms of depression in the future; Physical activity can improve body image for children and adolescents; Physical activity can improve self-esteem for children and adolescents; Physical activity can reduce symptoms of anxiety for children and adolescents; Physical activity to improve school life satisfaction; Symptoms of depression are often in lower in children and adolescents who are more physically active

Evidence: Improved biochemical markers; Improved body composition; Improved bone health; Improved cardiovascular health; Improved cognitive health; Improved mental health