Technology & Medicine: A 30,000 Foot Overview – Keynote from Dr. Feyrer-Melk
Watch clips from Dr. Steve Feyrer-Melk’s keynote address at the Institute for Functional Medicine’s 2016 conference, Technology & Medicine: A 30,000 Foot Overview
Selling Corporate Wellness: How Wellness Professionals Save Profit While Improving Lives
What health and wellness initiatives afford the largest client base access, combined with the financial incentive to companies for investment, and present the opportunity to improve the lives of potentially hundreds or thousands of people? The answer?…the ever-popular concept of corporate-led wellness.
Training Considerations for MS
People who suffer from Multiple Sclerosis already have a lot of challenges to contend with in their lives. Whereas many people already find excuses and ways to avoid hitting the gym, it’s that much harder for those with chronic conditions to get in a good workout. This is an area in which a personal trainer can become an effective key to a patient’s disease management strategy.
Are You 3D Fit?
Designing workouts for optimal health, performance and longevity can be a challenge. Over the years I have worked with many high level athletes and the fittest and most successful rarely ever rely on any one workout or routine. They usually approaching it like assembling pieces of a puzzle, consistently challenging their bodies in multiple ways. No single workout or activity provides all the necessary pieces. Does your training and workouts have all the necessary ingredients? If you are a fitness professional, can you be doing more for your clients?
Evolution of Medical Fitness
Once upon a time, exercising used to have a uniform and a regiment specific for men and women. Men would suit up in short shorts, beach themed tank tops, white headbands, wrist-bands, calf high knee socks, and white New Balance shoes. Women would shimmy into their sleek leotards, heads decorated with colorful braided headbands, legs adorned with scrunchie leg warmers, and feet comforted by puffy, linen white high-tops.
Training the Older Adult Client: Key Corrective Exercise Patterns – The Hips
There are three keys we have found to be fundamental in helping improve the effectiveness of our training programs and help our older clients successfully work towards accomplishing their health and fitness goals.
Aquatic Rehabilitation Post Joint Replacement
The most common symptoms a client experiences after undergoing a total joint replacement are pain, swelling, stiffness, muscle weakness and limited activities of daily living. Traditional rehabilitation for patients following a total joint replacement typically involves some combination of range of motion, strengthening…
The Blind Spots of Athletic Training
I spent a day recently in an Elite Athlete Training Gym. I was watching, in this case, high school athletes training hard, and the personal trainers working to improve the functional movement, speed, and agility of these athletes…
Fitness & Wellness Professionals: Do you use technology correctly?
Technology is a powerful and required tool in the Lifestyle Medicine and Health Coaching toolbox. The key to realizing the benefits is having both the patient/client and health professional use it!