Do physical activity: what if it was your doctor to prescribe it with a recipe? The case of the Lombardy Region

Physical activity has the same beneficial effects as a drug, to the point of becoming a real “prescription” of your doctor. The Lombardy Region is accelerating the approval of a bill that will make this important novelty possible to encourage physical training even with a view to prevention and which will concern in particular fragile people. We know well that physical activity is one of the basic pillars of longevity, however, less known is the fact that “adapted” physical activity or “structured” exercise on personal needs can help strengthen the immune defenses in case of fragility and, above all, can allow you to recover muscle tone, improve the state of the joints, increase resistance to fatigue, reduce pain, prevent the repercussions. of some pathologies, to enhance psychophysical health in general, exactly how a pharmacological treatment can do.

Prescribe physical activity with a recipe – which will subsequently be evaluated by a Chinesiologist Ampa in gyms equipped for the development of an ad hoc training program – will therefore be among the tasks of the general practitioner or the general pediatrician, but also of specialists such as the cardiologist, the physiatrist or the sports doctor in the case of complex pathologies or disabilities. A small, large revolution that could prove extremely advantageous for the health and well -being of the population in general.

“The Lombardy Region has activated about a work table for the promotion of physical activity and movement a year ago,” he explains in an interview published on the website of the Lilt (Italian League for the fight against cancer) Fabio Esposito, Full Professor in Physical and Sports Sciences at the University of Milan and delegate of the Retrice for teaching in sport. «Law 36 of 28 February 2021 provides for the establishment of health gymsto offer to those who need it, that is, to patients with stable chronic pathologies and people with compensated disabilities, theadapted physical activity or structured physical exercisethe first in groups, the second individualized, within structures recognized by the Region. We brought to the table the results of the five subgroups that devoted themselves to this implementation of the law, now we are in a pre-final technical phase, after which there will be a political phase. The forecasts are that at the end of 2025 or at the beginning of 2026 it is possible to implement it within our region “, specifies the teacher, also explaining what the aforementioned are health gyms: «The main requirement will be to have certain characteristics, based on how much the Lombardy Region will give as an indication. In general, they will focus on the presence of a Chinesiologist Ampa for preventive and adapted motor activity. Gyms already present will also be used Because law 36 provides that health gyms are public and private structures with certain characteristics. They can be normal gyms that for example in the morning or afternoon, when the Chinesiologist Ampa arrives, can provide adapted physical activity or structured exercise prescribed by the doctor ».