Essay On Stand Up

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Stand Up is a program developed to promote good posture and physical activity to high school students. This means encouraging them to use all available resources and educating them on the benefits of being active and practicing good posture. Sitting for extended periods is common among high school students. This is due to having long school days and being an electronically oriented age group. Two CDC risk addressed in my program are behaviors that result in intentional injury and physical inactivity. I plan on implementing this program to help improve posture and physical activity among high school students to hopefully reduce possibility of lower back pain and obesity in this population.

Which is why my goals for this program are to educate …show more content…

I have set up to have two separate meetings, one for teachers and one for students. I want to be able to open up my program to students of every age, gender and ethnicity. The more students I am able to educate that is one less student who can possibly suffer from back pain. I would conduct these weekly meetings in the sports medicine lab where I will have the team member of the club lead the activities. I will also ask speakers from different backgrounds with knowledge on back pain come visit. Because of the young population I want the weekly meetings to be informative but fun. That being said there would be different things throughout a whole year that I would want to address. These include, sports in relation to back pain, how to use correct posture in sports and at school, exercises and stretches to reduce back pain, and why use of good posture is important. The meetings will only be 30 minutes long and I will set up to have a school bus that could come pick up the students to take them home if needed. The meetings for teachers would be very similar in nature but would bring in professionals to help teachers come up with teaching plans that include stretching breaks and different activities that will allow students to move and understand material teacher is

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