Tatum Lott Ms. Hollingsworth Senior Project 17 Aug.

2012 Pain With Aging In her article, Osteoarthritis Patients Benefit From Exercise and Weight Loss (August 10, 2012), Sarah Glynn describes how Fit and Strong! and Fit and Strong! Plus exercise programs are used as experiments to aid people with osteoarthritis; the programs are being tested on four hundred adults over the age of sixty with lower body osteoarthritis whose body mass is between twenty-five and fifty. Glynn supports her claims by talking to the creator of Fit and Strong!, Susan Hughes, about assisting older adults with osteoarthritis. Glynns purpose is to enlighten people about the experiment to benefit elderly people with osteoarthritis. She seems to have an elderly audience in mind. Glynns tone is mindful readers can tell this because she interviewed the creator of the exercise program, Susan Hughes. Fit and Strong! and Fit and Strong! Plus are programs for osteoarthritis. Experimenters are testing the program on adults sixty and over with osteoarthritis. The workouts consist of sixty minutes of exercise and thirty minutes of education three times a week for eight weeks. The main goal for Fit and Strong! and Fit and Strong! Plus is to create diverse routines for different individuals and reinforce behaviors. In the United States, millions of dollars being spent on knee and hip replacements. Hughes believes that the program is an effective and affordable solution to hip and knee replacements. Fit and Strong! and Fit and Strong! Plus will affect the physical therapy field tremendously. Glynn states that the citizens doing the program will have nationally certified

Lott 2 exercise instructors conducting the program. Instead of bringing in new instructors to do the job, why not teach physical therapists the Fit and Strong and Fit and Strong! Plus? When businessmen bring in new instructors to compete with therapist, the instructors will take away countless customers from physical therapists. Although this program affects physical therapist negatively, it could affect me greatly in the future. For instances, if I were to get osteoarthritis, the program could be well developed by the time I am sixty. However, if I became a physical therapist, the Fit and Strong! and Fit and Strong! Plus could affect my career field in a negative way, but the program could also help the future seniors citizens.