The most holistic apporach to your client’s wellness
The Revolution of Wellness
Lifestyle PT is a new approach to patient care where no longer should we only consider patients in pain or with a recent injury as appropriate for PT. But instead, any patient that is experiencing obesity, has weakness, poor balance, decreased mobility, etc. should be referred to PT. We can help these patients initiate and maintain lifestyle changes when they become stronger, move better, and are equipped with more health education. With this new approach, we will have a heightened emphasis on prevention and wellness PT. This “Lifestyle PT” approach aligns closely with the medical focus on reducing coronary risk factors and improving biomarkers. By creating a therapeutic alliance, we can increase our patients’ strength, endurance, balance and endurance levels.
Introducing The Patient Experience Tool-Kit (PET).
The PET is a guide to delivering the best patient experience for lifestyle physical therapy in the community. Each PET is specifically tailored to your clinical position. There will be a PET for the front desk, techs, and PT/PTA.
The purpose of the PET is to improve value for our patients with a lifestyle approach. The patients will see and experience the value when they understand that it is not only helping them move and feel better but treating them from a holistic approach. As a PT clinic, we can no longer let chronic diseases go unaddressed. Therefore we are going to integrate Lifestyle PT into the PET.
This integration will include the following:
- Dr. Movement Physical (DMP)
- Nutrition/Activity Questionnaire
- How we talk about health with MD – inter-professional care model to share accountability
- Focus on Movement and Activity instead
- Patients personal approach – tailored pts interaction based on them as an individual
- The concept that Movement is Medicine
Partnerships with other complementary professionals