SIT AND BE FIT MEDICAL CONDITION
WORKOUT GUIDE
If you know the specific medical condition that you are suffering from, either click on our Video Recommendation by Medical Condition spreadsheet, or if you have questions about which video would be best for your specific conditions we have provided suggestions for you as well. Click on the medical condition(s) below that best fits your criteria...
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
Sitting only:
- All American Workout: DVD VHS
- All Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workout: VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
Some standing:
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workout: VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
Mostly standing:
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS
Arthritis is a group of diseases, and is very variable in its symptoms and degree of disability. Any of the videos is appropriate for people with arthritis.
Severe arthritis (with hot red joints and mild to severe joint deformity):
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Caregiver's Guide to Exercise: DVD VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
Moderate pain, limited joint mobility:
- All American Workout: DVD VHS
- All Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Kids' Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
Mild pain, minimal to no functional limitations:
- Diabetes Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Pre-Aerobic III: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
- All American Workout: DVD VHS
- All Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Kids' Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
Shoulder problems / Shoulder arthritis / Frozen shoulder / Adhesive capsulitis / Rotation Cuff injury / Following fracture of the shoulder
Any acute shoulder problem should be evaluated by your physician and perhaps a physical therapist for an individualized program
The following workouts are appropriate for those managing shoulder problems:
- All American Workout: DVD VHS (more aggressive workout for strengthening & uses an exercise band)
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS (more aggressive workout for strengthening & uses an exercise band)
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS (more aggressive workout for strengthening & uses an exercise band)
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
Elbow, Following elbow fracture / Arthritis of the elbow
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS (especially good for more exercises involving range of motion and strengthening of the elbow)
Wrist fracture, following cast removal and wrist arthritis
- All American Workout*: DVD VHS
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Diabetes Workout: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III*: VHS
*if there is severe arthritis with severe joint deformity/pain in fingers, use extra-light band
Especially where the osteoporosis involves deformity of the spine due to compression fractures of the vertebrae. If someone has a diagnosis of osteoporosis, but no spinal deformity, almost any of the workouts are safe as long as the person is aware not to forward flex the trunk or lift the knee vigorously toward the chest.
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty WorkouT I: VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
Lower back pain / Spinal arthritis / Sciatica
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Diabetes Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS (may be challenging)
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
Hip fracture with open reduction laternal fixation (pinning) / Hip arthritis
All of the videos contain some movements that may compromise total hip replacement. You must be aware of your own precautions as advised by your physician.
- All American Workout: DVD VHS
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS (good hip exercises if there has not been a hip replacement)
*All of the videos contain some movements that may compromise total hip replacement, viewers must be aware of their own precautions as advised by their physician
*All of the videos contain some movements that may compromise total hip replacement, viewers must be aware of their own precautions as advised by their physician
Knee problems / Arthritis of the knee / Total knee replacement
- All American Workout: DVD VHS (includes some strenuous strengthening exercises with the exercise band for knee flexion and extension)
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
*May contain some movements not appropriate for those with knee replacements
Ankle sprain / Ankle fracture (following cast removal and approval for exercise)
- All American Workout: DVD VHS (more advanced exercises with weight bearing on single leg)
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS (If the person is unable to stand comfortably. Some of the standing videos will also facilitate return of proprioception and balance control better than this one.)
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Diabetes Workout: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS
(more advanced exercises with weight bearing on single leg) - Tone & Stretch III: VHS
Arthritis of the neck / Neck surgery (following) / Cervical spondylosis / Neck injury (not involving spinal cord trauma)
- All American Workout: DVD VHS
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
Breathing Problems-COPD / Asthma / Emphysema / Bronchitis
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Caregiver's Guide to Exercise: DVD VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
- COPD Workout: DVD
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS (offers tactile stimulation, but no standing)
Balance & Fall Prevention Workout: DVD VHS - Diabetes Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Pre-Aerobic III: VHS (greater challenge)
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS (greater challenge for balance)
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS (offers tactile stimulation, but no standing)
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workout: DVD VHS
- Diabetes Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS (greater challenge for balance)
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- All American Workout*: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workout*: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV*: DVD VHS
- Kids' Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness*: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
- Neuro Rehab Workout: DVD
*more challenging workouts, appropriate in the earlier stages of the disease
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS (good with cane and ball exercises)
- Caregiver's Guide to Exercise: DVD VHS
- Kids' Workout: DVD VHS
- Neuro Rehab Workout: DVD
- All American Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Diabetes Workout: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Kids' Workout: DVD VHS
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Senior Friends Focus on Fitness: VHS (may be challenging)
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- Season Eight : DVD VHS
- All American Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch IV: DVD VHS
- Caregiver's Guide to Exercise: DVD VHS ( great bed exercises to start the day)
- Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Workout: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Specialty Workout I: VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS (Note: massage at the end of the first workout should be avoided or modified for upper extremity lymphedema patients)
- All-Sitting Workout: DVD VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- Arthritis Workout: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Tone & Stretch III: VHS
- All-Sitting Exercises: DVD VHS
- Balance & Fall Prevention Workouts: DVD VHS
- Fibromyalgia Workout: DVD VHS
- Osteoporosis Workout: DVD VHS
- Parkinson's Workout: DVD VHS
- Season 10 DVD
