Common Barriers of Patients Physical Activity Summary

Common Barriers of Patients Physical Activity
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Common Barriers of Patients Physical Activity
The most common physical barrier that hinders the patient from being active is pain. Several factors trigger pain in the patients, such as daily works like bending when washing kitchen utensils and maintaining still posture in one spot causes pain in patients. Pain has negative impacts on patients, such as feelings of disability, lack of confidence, and social isolation, thus preventing the patient from being physically active (Boutevillian et al., 2017). For example, back pain prevents patients from exercising their bodies and participating in daily activities such as digging.
The common perceived physical barrier among patients that hinder them from being physically active is overweight. Patients with overweight problems believe they cannot participate in physical exercise because of fear of getting injuries. Failure to physical activity makes them to become physically inactive, thus triggering health problems such as osteoarthritis (Boutevillian et al., 2017). The overweight causes knee osteoarthritis, thus preventing patients from physical exercises such as running, which is essential in body fitness by reducing chronic diseases and cardiovascular illness.
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