title: Physical activity and our human potential: a contemporary perspective.
abstract: The beneficial response of post-infarct patients and elderly, clinically healthy individuals to exercise training programs has emphasized the very important role that rehabilitation plays in releasing undiscovered potential. Illness may sometimes provide a starting point, as a marker of our mortality, for using physical activity in rehabilitation as a powerful symbol for rediscovering, both physically and emotionally, our capacity to expand our potential as human beings.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Rechnitzer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D004194:Disease; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D005082:Physical Exertion; D010809:Physical Fitness; D010988:Play and Playthings; D012649:Self Concept; D014434:Type A Personality