2020 TSMA

77 shall be increased step by step with care. It is forbidden to suddenly enhance the strength level more than ten percent. Foot care: Wearing a pair of comfortable and right-sized sports shoes could reduce the chances of getting wounded while playing sports. If there is any wound, weight trainings and water sports shall be avoided so as to prevent from the chances to get injured again or to get infections. No good control of the body temperature: Because diabetes affect the nerve system, the patients have lower control ability to temperature and humidity. Therefore, try not to do sports at the environment of high temperatures and humidity. Besides, wearing light-color, loose and air- breathable sports apparel would help keep body heat going away. Also sufficient water drinking would also help control the body temperature. Hypertension - High blood pressure Based on the statistical reports of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, from 2014 to 2017, the ratio of Taiwanese people aged 18 and above having high blood pressure is 25.16%. In other words, one in four adults is a patient with high blood pressure. The diseases caused by high blood pressure include heart disease, cerebrovascular disease. And other diseases related to the chronic high blood pressure contain diabetes, chronic kidney diseases and so on. Among the top ten leading causes of death, half of them are related to high blood pressure. The treatment strategies of high blood pressure, apart from medical treatment and adjusting meals like the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH diet), low sodium and high potassium diet as well as less alcohol drinking, the role of sports also plays an indispensable role. According to the sports prescription and instructions provided by ACSM and the private coach directory of NSCA, the special sports prescriptions for high blood pressure patients are mainly placed upon aerobic trainings and resistance trainings as the supplementary approach. With regard to the sedentary and elderly patients, they can start doing sports from a low intensity; that is, 40% of the heart rate reserve (40% HRR), or from 8 to 10 grades in the Rating of Perceived Exertion Scale; that is, while doing sports, people still can talk with gasping. Or put in the other way to describe the intensity, “Every day I for a walk in the park.” There shall be three days for sports every week. However, after cardiovascular functions get used to the sports intensity which usually takes six