An Introduction to Integrative Lifestyle Medicine

Overview:

• Do your patients suffer from comorbidities and make lifestyle choices that are complicating or hindering progress in physical therapy? 
• Are you feeling burnt out or compassion fatigue from not getting the results you want?
• Would you like to learn exactly how lifestyle choices impact your physical therapy outcomes and how you can influence behaviour change?

This one-hour online course will transform the way you look at patients.

This Course Will: 

• Introduce you to the foundations of Integrative Lifestyle Medicine. 
• Increase your effectiveness as a therapist and improve patient outcomes and satisfaction in less time and with less burden on you and the patient.
• Help you streamline clinical decision-making by finding root causes of pain and disease instead of just treating a diagnosis.
• Tackle persistent pain and complex comorbidities that are hindering your physiotherapy outcomes.

In This Course You Will Learn:

• The vital signs of Integrative Lifestyle Medicine. 
• The distinctive roles of Lifestyle, Integrative, & Functional Medicine in physiotherapy practice. 
• The evidence-base that supports the use of best practice methods of Lifestyle Medicine & Integrative Medicine.
• What lifestyle factors impact physical therapy outcomes, chronic disease and manage or halt chronic pain conditions. 
• The expanded scope of service for physiotherapists using Integrative Lifestyle Medicine.
  
  

What Integrative Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) Can Do for Your Practice 

Integrative Lifestyle Medicine will expand your scope and reach into your community, improve patient outcomes, and grow your referral network. Whether you are a generalist or specialist physiotherapist you will benefit from learning how Lifestyle Medicine directly impacts musculoskeletal and neuromuscular outcomes across the lifespan. 

Join Dr. Ginger Garner, a physical therapist and founder of the Living Well Institute (formerly Professional Yoga Therapy Institute®), for this one-hour complimentary webinar to learn how you can use Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine to transform your clinical practice. 

This course was recorded May 25, 2021

What's Next? 

Have you already attended the live webinar/course and are interested in taking the ILM certification?

Below is a little more information about the certification as well as links to take you there. 

ILM Certification 

The ILM certification is divided into 5 modules (courses) (24 hours online), you can take them all, or just take the ones that appeal to and interest you.

• Module 1: Integrative Lifestyle Medicine: Impacting Chronic Disease & Pain
• Module 2: Creating “3D” Health from the Oral Cavity to the Pelvic Floor through Trauma-Informed Psychology
• Module 3: The Gut-Brain-Body Axis - Achieving Better Neuromuscular Outcomes through Nutrition 
• Module 4: Sound & Sleep in Rehabilitation & Health Promotion - Fostering Whole Health 
• Elective 1 of ILM Certificate: Physical Activity Prescription
• Elective 2 of ILM Certificate: Environmental Influences on Rehabilitation Outcomes: Tobacco Cessation & Other Toxic Exposure