Helping Children with Obesity "Move Well" To Move More: An Applied Clinical Review.

Margarita D Tsiros, Heather K Vincent, Nancy Getchell, Sarah P Shultz

Journal: Current sports medicine reports 2021;20(7):374-383

PMID: 34234093

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Abstract

Children with obesity experience musculoskeletal pain and reduced physical function and well-being, which collectively impact their fitness, strength, motor skills, and even their ability to undertake simple tasks, like walking and climbing stairs. Disrupting obesity-related disability may be critical to increasing children's physical activity. Thus, barriers to movement should be considered by health practitioners to improve the efficacy of prescribed physical activity. This applied clinical review highlights key subjective and objective findings from a hypothetical case scenario, linking those findings to the research evidence, before exploring strategies to enhance movement and increase physical activity.

Address: Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity, UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, Adelaide, SA, AUSTRALIA.; Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.; Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.; Kinesiology Department, Seattle University, Seattle, WA.

DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000861

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MeSH Terms: Actigraphy, Bicycling, Child, Exercise, Exercise Test, Female, Flatfoot, Gait Analysis, Genu Valgum, Health Literacy, Humans, Motor Activity, Motor Skills, Movement, Muscle Strength, Musculoskeletal Pain, Pediatric Obesity, Physical Examination, Physical Fitness, Single-Parent Family, Swimming