Peer Reviewed
Sports medicine

Exercise in children with chronic disease

Carolyn Broderick
Abstract
Before advising children with chronic disease about appropriate physical activity, the desired outcomes and the possible limiting factors should be determined.
Key Points
    The role of exercise

    The benefits of exercise in the healthy paediatric population are well known. What is less well described, however, is the potential therapeutic effect of an exercise program in children with chronic disease. In this article, five chronic childhood disorders have been selected as examples to illustrate the benefits of and possible limitations to exercise in special paediatric populations. The conditions described are obesity and insulin resistance, type 1 diabetes, cystic fibrosis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and haemophilia.

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