Welcome clinicians! If you are here, you probably have a patient who would benefit from exercise and you are looking for resources to connect your patient to the right programming.
We’ve designed our exercise directory with a triage tool at the front, so that your patient will be referred to programming that is most appropriate for them, according to current functional ability and symptoms. The triage tool will create a report that can be shared with the oncology care team, if desired, to start the conversation about exercise. There is also a directory of nearly 2,000 programs and we will point to the ones best for the patient according to answers to the triage questions. If your patient is willing to connect to exercise online, the list will be longer.
The triage tool we are using was validated through a Delphi process. Questions include assessments of ability to complete common daily activities, falls, recent cancer treatments, and symptoms (e.g. fatigue, tingling, nausea). Results of taking the assessment are recommendations that the patient could do independent exercise, cancer specific community based exercise, clinically supervised exercise, or the assessment could recommend that the patient seek outpatient cancer rehabilitation. In an evaluation by oncology care team members, most respondents viewed the tool as easy to implement and reported being satisfied with the process. We provide links on this page to the triage tool itself, if you want to use it in your own practice, as well as links to the published evidence base supporting it. The tool is embedded in our exercise directory as well, so your patients can answer the questions directly and print a report to bring to you if you like.
Our goal with this website is to provide you, the clinician, with an easy button to connect to exercise programming that is appropriate for your patients’ current state of function, health, and symptoms.
If there are resources you need that you don’t see here or you have feedback, we hope you will be in touch with us so that we can improve. Email us at EIM@acsm.org.
