{"id":23584,"date":"2019-01-28T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/?p=23584"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T18:52:30","slug":"aligning-with-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/aligning-with-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Aligning with Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019ve been to the mountain. Yes, I\u2019ve been in the world of medicine. I\u2019ve run my programs in hospitals, collaborated with physicians to address chronic disease, and spoken at medical conferences on topics ranging from \u201cemotion and the patient\u201d to \u201cthe healing powers of synergy.\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Between you and me, I\u2019ve been to nicer mountains. While I have nothing but praise for doctors, when we lift up the medical curtain, the overall system, the collective mindset, and the impotence of the treatment of chronic disease provide an open door. For who? For fitness professionals, and I say that with qualification.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

The challenge in great part is a naivete. Our “industry” is not well versed in the living dynamics between medical institutions, health insurance, and pharmaceuticals, so these lobbying giants are viewed by personal trainers as purely corrupt, as the evils that plague our population. Yet, when the mirror of honesty is confronted, the limitations of conventional exercise and eating are not by any means the panacea trainers profess them to be in the midst of a population struggling with health compromise.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

YES, THERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY BUT . . .<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

. . . it requires a re-education, an enhanced skill set.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Physical therapists are not thrilled with the idea of personal trainers working to address muscular imbalances and injury recovery. Nutritionists approach trainers who coach their clients nutritionally with caution. The trainer is not deemed a player on the Allied Health Care Team.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

We therefore hear assertions from “trainer island” with limited foundation.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cInsurance should pay for our client sessions, after all, it pays for medical treatments that don’t work.\u201d Wow, is that a slippery slope, one I wouldn\u2019t approach if it showed up in my backyard and I was equipped with anti-slip cleats.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoctors should refer clients to us.\u201d That is best responded to with a simple, \u201cwhy?\u201d<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cDoctors don\u2019t care about their patients.\u201d There\u2019s a globalized bias that fails to account for a system that makes \u201cexploration of the client condition\u201d one of the greatest challenges in the field, regardless of the physician\u2019s heart.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

* * * * * * The opportunity lies in humility, in a willingness to step up and learn, and in providing a true complement to the system that is flawed. It isn\u2019t an \u201cus or them,\u201d but it also shouldn\u2019t be a one way street of elusive referrals. It\u2019s a recognition that we have the per-session time to invest. We can gain the trust of clients. We can see clients regularly and facilitate programs that require joint responsibility.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

\"\"The most important piece of creating an industry wide recognition of the trainer\u2019s power is perhaps the dismissal of ego, the acknowledgement that trainers deemed competent in prescribing safe and effective exercise, have not learned to address metabolic imbalance, hormonal disruption, and inflammatory issues that underlie the most common conditions.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

It\u2019s in the spirit of betterment that I\u2019ve committed to learn and teach, to isolate practices fully within the trainer scope of practice that address the sources and causes of the plagues that impact 65% of our adult population. It\u2019s time, not to urge doctors to respect trainers, but for trainers to create a legitimate platform of respect, one where chronic dis-ease is treated as a self-induced condition with patient \/ client empowerment as the greatest vehicle for true opportunity, as the vehicle for collaborative respect, a vehicle for the trainer to serve as a bona fide health catalyst.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

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Phil Kaplan has been a fitness leader and Personal Trainer for over 30 years having traveled the world sharing strategies for human betterment.\u00a0 He has pioneered exercise and eating interventions documented as having consistent and massive impact in battling chronic disease.\u00a0 His dual passion combines helping those who desire betterment and helping health professionals discover their potential.\u00a0 Email him at phil@philkaplan.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been to the mountain. Yes, I\u2019ve been in the world of medicine. I\u2019ve run my programs in hospitals, collaborated with physicians to address chronic disease, and spoken at medical conferences on topics ranging from \u201cemotion and the patient\u201d to \u201cthe healing powers of synergy.\u201d Between you and me, I\u2019ve been to nicer mountains. While I have nothing but praise for doctors, when we lift up the medical curtain, the overall system, the collective mindset, and the impotence of the treatment of chronic disease provide an open door. For who? For fitness professionals, and I say that with qualification. The challenge in great part is a naivete. Our “industry” is not well versed in the living dynamics between medical institutions, health insurance, and pharmaceuticals, so these lobbying giants are viewed by personal trainers as purely corrupt, as the evils that plague our population. Yet, when the mirror of honesty is confronted, the limitations of conventional exercise and eating are not by any means the panacea trainers profess them to be in the midst of a population struggling with health compromise. YES, THERE’S AN OPPORTUNITY BUT . . . . . . it requires a re-education, an enhanced skill set. Physical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":21738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,16],"class_list":["post-23584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-fitness-professionals","tag-medical-fitness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}