The year of 2015 was a fruitful year in the field of chronic diseases, exercise, and physical activity in childhood. Many interesting papers came out on this topic. Exercise testing and prescription in children with chronic disease and disability is an increasingly studied area in which many disciplines are involved including pediatric physical therapy, medicine, nursing, physical education, and exercise physiology. This multidisciplinary aspect is reflected in the journals in which my highlighted publications (below) were published. Because no single discipline has the ownership of exercise testing and prescription and because different disciplines use different jargon, it is difficult to have the scientific knowledge translated to the clinic. A few years ago we initiated the Pediatric Exercise Medicine Network (PEMNet) to close this knowledge translation gap.
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Chronic Diseases, Exercise, and Physical Activity in Childhood: 2015 in Review
Tim Takken
Editor’s Notes—February 2016
Bareket Falk
Elite Youth Sports
Craig A. Williams
Endocrinology and Pediatric Exercise Science
Alon Eliakim
Erratum: Weiss et al. 2015
In the article by Weiss MR, Phillips AC, Kipp LE, “Effectiveness of a School-Based Fitness Program on Youths’ Physical and Psychosocial Health Outcomes,” in Ped Exerc Sci, 27(4), pp. 546–558, http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/pes.2015-0011, Kipp’s affiliation was incorrectly listed as the Dept. of Kinesiology and Health Promotion, Lexington, KY. Kipp’s correct affiliation is with the Dept. of Health and Human Performance, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. We apologize for this error.