The Lifestyle Medicine Toolbox: Mind-Body Approaches for Health Promotion

This holistic guide provides healthcare and fitness professionals with an integrative toolbox to promote lifestyle medicine with their clients, focusing on nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, stress management, risky substance use, and social connectedness. It offers strategies and advice for sustainable changes, empowering clients to take charge of their health through nonpharmacological and nonsurgical approaches.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 21 February 2024
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This comprehensive guide offers a holistic toolkit for healthcare and fitness professionals to promote lifestyle medicine with their clients. Its clinical and evidence-informed approach centers around six primary lifestyle medicine factors: nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, stress management, risky substance use, and social connectedness. Each factor is enriched with a diverse range of strategies and advice, encompassing anti-inflammatory recipes, self-guided visualization techniques, tips on breaking bad habits, sustainable fitness routines, and mind-body exercises.

Drawing from the author's extensive experience as a trained physical therapist specializing in musculoskeletal conditions, this book adopts a nonpharmacological and nonsurgical approach, empowering clients to take control of their health through a wealth of resources and techniques. It offers clear, actionable steps and real-world examples to foster sustainable changes that promote long-term health and healing.

By incorporating these lifestyle medicine factors into their practice, healthcare and fitness professionals can help individuals achieve optimal well-being and prevent chronic diseases. The guide provides a roadmap for creating personalized treatment plans that address individual needs and preferences, ensuring that clients receive the support and guidance they need to make lasting lifestyle changes.

Weight: 654g
Dimension: 174 x 245 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839979088
Edition number: Illustrated ed