Aerobic capacity tests

How to test aerobic capacity?

Physiotherapists often communicate with their patients, including children and older adults, the practice because of decreased physical activity associated with a sedentary lifestyle, injury, illness or disability. Objective quantification of aerobic capacity provides basic services for the patient, inform the process of assessment and intervention and the effectiveness of interventions. The purpose of this article is to review field tests of aerobic capacity, including walk tests, step tests, tests and shuttle service, for use in the pediatric and geriatric populations. Aerobic capacity of healthy children can be assessed with a walk test, shuttle run, and step tests. To determine the aerobic capacity in children with cystic fibrosis or who are seriously ill,
Time-walk tests are suitable step tests and shuttle walk tests. Field tests of aerobic capacity in healthy older adults include walk tests, step tests and shuttle walk test, whereas in older adults with heart and respiratory diseases, neurological, orthopedic, or disability in the time-walk test and shuttle walk tests used will. Field tests are safe, easy to operate and requires little equipment. Use of standardized administration of these tests are valid and reliable estimates of aerobic capacity in pediatric and geriatric patients that will be used to inform the exercise prescription and to quantify the efficacy of therapeutic interventions can be.

Many of the patients who are interacting with the physiotherapists of the exercise because of decreased physical activity with injury, illness or disability.1, 2 increasingly connected, but low activity becoming the standard inside "normal"people. Decline in physical activity was observed in each segment of the population, including children and geriatric populations.

A recent study in healthy children aged 4 až 1 8 years to get that 60% to 80% fitness values below the 25th percentile.3 also had more than 50% of people aged 65 years and allegedly a sedentary lifestyle.