Bridging the gap between clinicians and fitness professionals: a challenge to implementing exercise as medicine

Health clubs (HC) and personal trainers (PT) are traditional outlets for the promotion of physical activity (PA) and exercise programming. As physicians are increasingly being called on to write exercise prescriptions for their patients, this study sought to investigate the level of integration between the healthcare and fitness systems.An internet study was designed with five domains to understand physicians': (1) overall perception of HC, (2)...