Lifestyle Medicine in Day-to-Day Practice is a course dedicated to how to expand your current approaches to treatment and prevention with evidence-based lifestyle medicine interventions.
Lifestyle Medicine in Day-to-Day Practice covers topics such as:
- Mastering the core competencies of prescribing exercise
- Motivating patients (even reluctant ones) to increase their level of physical activity
- Screening and counseling patients on exercise options
- Integrating exercise prescription into your current approaches to treatment and prevention
- Personalizing exercise (frequency, intensity, time, type) by a patient`s age and health conditions
- Performing quick and easy in-office assessment of exercise risk, strength, flexibility, balance and aerobic capacity
- Demonstrating exercises: pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients
- Counseling and health coaching
- Applying the new 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans
- Supporting self-determination while promoting physical activity in older adults
- Tracking the results of a patient’s physical activity
- Writing exercise prescriptions for patients with disabilities
- Quickly and effectively educating patients on the health benefits of home-cooked meals
- Assessing, jumpstarting or advancing your own personal exercise regimen
- Motivating patients to embrace healthier cooking practices
- Recognizing why patients don’t cook
- Translating culinary medicine knowledge and skills into coaching practices to improve the health and nutrition of your patients
- Providing guidance to patients for shopping, food storage, and meal preparation
Lifestyle Medicine in Day-to-Day Practice brings together:
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physicians
- Wellness Coaches
- Physician Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Registered Nurses
- Social Workers
- Dietitians
- Occupational Therapists
- Exercise Physiologists
- Fellows in Training
- Residents
- Personal Trainers
