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

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; Physical activity has been shown to reduce the length of hospital stay in cancer patients; Reduces post-operative complications; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases

Evidence: Able to walk further; Decreased co-morbidities; 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 well for longer; Reduced feeling of breathlessness; Reduced number of exacerbations; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases

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

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

Falls and Frailty

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

Ischaemic Heart Disease

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

Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease

Evidence: Improves fitness; Improves lung function; Improves mood; Keep your neck and back flexible; Maintain ability to carry out everyday activities; Manage fatigue, pain and stiffness; You get a better night sleep; Enhance mood; Improve your ability to carry out daily activities; Improves Disease activity; Manage Fatigue; Get a better night’s sleep; Improve Muscle Strength; Improves quality of life; Reduce pain; Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases

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

Evidence: Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases; Helps control weight gain; Helps prevent blood pressure problems; Helps prevent diabetes of pregnancy; Helps sleep; Improves fitness; Improves mental wellbeing

Primary Prevention

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

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

Type 2 Diabetes

Evidence: Living an active life reduces your risk of getting many common diseases

Condition

Evidence: Helps anxiety; 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; Physical activity has been shown to reduce the length of hospital stay in cancer patients; Reduces post-operative complications; Decreased fatigue; Improved psychological health; Improvement in body composition and BMI; Improvement in Cardio-pulmonary fitness; Improvement in musculoskeletal health; Improvement in quality of life

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: 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.; Physical activity can reduce symptoms of anxiety for children and adolescents; Children and adolescents who participate in sporting activity can have lower symptoms of 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 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: 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.; Physical activity can reduce symptoms of anxiety for children and adolescents; 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 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

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