5 Essential Skills Every Medical Exercise Professional Must Master - MET eBook Tip 33
Medical exercise professionals play a crucial role in helping clients with medical conditions improve their health through exercise. However, before offering these services, it’s important to master certain key skills that ensure safe and effective programming. In MET101 Tip 33, Michael Jones highlights five essential skills that every medical exercise professional should develop:
- Blood Pressure Assessment: Learn to use a sphygmomanometer and stethoscope to manually check blood pressure rather than relying on electronic devices, which can be inaccurate.
- Heart Rate Measurement: Understand how to manually check a client’s radial or carotid pulse, as relying on heart rate monitors isn’t always feasible.
- Balance Assessment: Accurately evaluate a client’s balance, starting with their sitting balance, before progressing to more advanced standing balance assessments.
- Identifying Red Flags: Be aware of red flags in both new and existing clients. Referring clients...
Medical Exercise Training Skills Checklist
Medical exercise certifications are popping up everywhere but the most important consideration in this new emerging flied is your proficiency in medical exercise skills. The Medical Exercise Training Institute has identified the 52 essential skills all medical exercise professionals must demonstrate a high level of proficiency. The name of the game is not certifications, its having the ability to perform these skills to produce outcomes for MET clients.
Please take a moment to rate your level of proficiency with the 52 essential MET skills. Click the link below to complete MET skills checklist.
The MET Skills Checklist was developed in 2001 by Michael Jones in a effort to further identify and qualify medical exercise professionals. Many MET facilities use the skills checklist as a means of rating staff members for promotion and pay raises.
Instead of downloading the skills checklist, please complete the checklist online by clicking this link....