a global health initiative

Name: WaiCEP
Address: NZ
Telephone: 0274630089

Exercise is Medicine® (EIM) is a global health initiative that is focused on encouraging primary care physicians and other health care providers to include physical activity when designing treatment plans for patients and referring their patients to appropriately accredited exercise professionals.

EIM is committed to the belief that physical activity is integral in the prevention and treatments of diseases and should be regularly assessed and included as part of all healthcare.

Waikato EIM

Waikato EIM further aims to create links between Primary Healthcare providers and community based allied health and clinical services to appropriately qualified Accredited Exercise Practitioners in the Waikato region.

WEIM aims to provide education to primary healthcare providers on Exercise is Medicine® principles along with providing a platform to promote and support clinical exercise physiology in the Waikato.

Waikato EIM aims to provide support to all qualified Accredited Exercise Physiologists (SESNZ)/Clinical Exercise Physiologists (CEPNZ) in the Waikato.

Your go-to source for Accredited Exercise Physiologists in the Waikato region

Clinical Exercise Physiology

What is it?

An accredited exercise physiologist can be defined as an individual who specialises in the delivery of exercise, lifestyle and behavioural modification programmes for the prevention, management and rehabilitation of chronic conditions and diseases, and injuries.

An accredited exercise physiologist provides individualised and specialised exercise and lifestyle education for clients across a wide spectrum of health, from the apparently healthy to those with diagnosed conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, or chronic pain or injury.

The accredited exercise physiologist plays an important role in a multi-disciplinary team by providing specialised exercise testing, exercise programming and client education (within their professional scope of practice) in conjunction with other medical and allied health professionals. Patient progress and status reports from an AEP contribute to determining an appropriate treatment plan for each patient.

In the New Zealand context there is under the Treaty of Waitangi a commitment to Maori Health, and Pacific Health and the multi-cultural NZ population.

Risk Assessment Tool

Tool for Exercise Referral

This Risk Assessment Tool has been designed to assist general practitioners and primary health care providers to refer patients to an appropriate exercise practitioner, based on their clinical conditions and needs.

Referral Form

For an Accredited Exercise Physiologist

Please download and use this referral form to refer patients to your preferred clinical exercise practitioner.