Fitness / Exercise Therapist Certification

Every day, thousands of health club members and clients of personal trainers are discharged from prescriptive medical care with the need to undergo a supervised fitness therapy program, specifically designed around their condition. If you are a personal trainer, physical therapist, occupational therapist, chiropractor, nurse or any other health care professional, the Fitness / Exercise Therapist Certification course will allow you to expand your clientele.

The ISSA's Fitness / Exercise Therapist Certification course takes the best technologies from the health care and fitness realms, and combines them into a course that helps personal trainers and health care specialists take over when medical treatment is over. Whether you're a fitness trainer wanting to expand your clientele to include individuals with medical conditions that require special care while exercising, or a health care professional wanting to go beyond the often ridiculous restrictions imposed by insurance companies, the ISSA Fitness / Exercise Therapist Certification program opens up many new channels in which to provide your skills.

Spearheading the drive to fill this need, the ISSA's Fitness / Exercise Therapist Certification course allows personal trainers and health care specialists to craft specifically designed exercise programs keeping in mind the fitness constraints of the client.

The Fitness / Exercise Therapist Certification course materials will also include your Home Study Section Quizzes. Once you have submitted at least 66% of your course quizzes, you will be sent your official home study final examination. You may also choose to complete your section quizzes online, if you would prefer. Should you choose to complete your quizzes online, once you have submitted at least 66% of them, you will be sent your official final examination.

• Post-Rehab Orthopedic Exercise
• Therapeutic Flexibility
• Stress Management
• Industrial Fitness/Workers Compensation
• Avoiding Injury Recurrence
• Drug Interaction With Exercise
• Sports Medicine and Health Care
• Achieving Maximum Insurance Reimbursement In A Managed Care Environment

Learn to work with and develop exercise programs for individuals suffering from:

• Arthritis
• Osteoporosis
• Stroke
• Cardiac Problems
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Cancer Wellness
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Post Menopause

Included in the Fitness / Exercise Therapist course

The easy-to-follow course book (256 pages) is enhanced by a workbook & study guide with detailed learning objectives to help you get the most out of your studies.

The Fitness / Exercise Therapist Certificate course has prerequisites. Please call to enroll or learn more! 800-892-4772 or International 805-745-8111

20 Years of Educating and Certifying Personal Trainers

Since 1988, the ISSA has certified and provided continuing fitness education to over 130,000 people just like you who want to help others feel better, look better and improve the quality of their lives.

We are unconditionally committed to providing expanded access to the highest quality personal training certification and continuing fitness education programs available, advancing our industry as a whole, and developing greater access to career opportunities for those who share our vision of Creating a Stronger, Healthier World.

Try our Career Calculator to calculate how much extra money you could earn this year by turning your passion for fitness into profit as a personal trainer with just a few clients a week.