Doctors and Fitness Trainers Hope to Benefit from Collaboration

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Published December 6, 2006 at 10:11 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

How might health and fitness improve if fitness trainers and medical doctors shared information about clients and worked together for their optimum benefit? An exercise specialist and a doctor explo

Tom Fudge : Many people in this country go to trainers to become more fit, or to seek help with a physical problem. But trainers are a sundry bunch. Some have degrees and some are poorly trained. And they’re work is often compromised by the fact that they don’t have a relationship with their client’s doctor.

Anthony Carey is a San Diego exercise specialist who would like to see more collaboration between doctors and trainers. He points out that often the best thing a doctor can prescribe is not a drug, but an exercise program.

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Anthony Carey , ACE-certified Clinical Exercise Specialist and CFO of Function First.
Bradford Stiles , M.D., medical director of California Sports and Industrial Medical Center.