Kinesiology 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blood Sugar, Skeletal Muscle, Endurance Training

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2000A/B
• Professor: Vincent Liardi

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Physical and psychological determinants of clinical kinesiology in aging population. Cardiology technician & uhn work with patients who have cardiac diseases. Cardiac center in toronto- largest (cid:862)ope(cid:374) heart(cid:863) (cid:272)e(cid:374)tre. Largest adult congenital heart disease centre in the world. 63 docs, 800 staff and 1 kin staff. Adult congenital heart disease does(cid:374)"t for(cid:373) properl(cid:455) Defects range from mild to only having one functioning ventricle. Blue babies- if the(cid:455) do(cid:374)"t get e(cid:374)ough o(cid:454)(cid:455)ge(cid:374)ated (cid:271)lood the(cid:374) the(cid:455) tur(cid:374) (cid:271)lue. Recent hospital admission for life-threating arrhythmia that occurred during exercise. The great arteries are the pulmonary artery and the aorta- These arteries are switched and it pumps deoxygenated blood to the body. Diagnosis: left ventricular assist device and an eventual cardiac transplant. Low functional capacity multifactorial and is related to cardiac, neuroendocrine, vascular and pulmonary changes. You do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e the sa(cid:373)e heart rate respo(cid:374)se. Need to consider slower warm ups and slower cool downs.