Referrals

If you are a Physician, PT, OT, Lawyer, Adjuster, Insurance Company, WCB, ICBC.

As a health care professional you want to refer you're patient/client to a qualified exercise professional that can maintain confidentiality and safely implement either your long term exercise prescription/active rehab program or your general lifestyle modification program designed to increase the level of physical activity and prevent injuries and disorders.

As a Registered Kinesiologist and Personal Trainer Specialists, I research the latest Health and Fitness Trends, Fitness Tools and Techniques, Population Based Interventions, Journals, and Professional Conferences. I continually receive mailings from fitness/rehab professionals, such as the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiologists, and I am a member of several professional organizations.

To begin our professional relationship we can schedule a 5-minute appointment, your last appointment before lunch or at the end of the day. I can familiarize myself with your treatment modalities and equipment, your needs and wants, concepts and philosophy, and have a brief tour of your clinic. Upon establishment of our working relation, I can offer you a complementary training session to promote further mutual professional understanding and I will actively refer clients to your services.

I have training in Screening and Testing, such as:

Testing Concepts
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Body Composition
Musculoskeletal Fitness

I have training in Conditioning for Physical Fitness, such as:

The Acute and Chronic Effects of Exercise
Exercise Prescription
Nutrition and Performance

I can implement and supervise exercise prescription referrals and prevention strategies for Physical Activity and Disease, such as:

Injuries to the Musculoskeletal System and Sense Organs
Injuries or Disorders of Internal Organs and Central Nervous System
Heart Disease
Cancer
Diabetes
Obesity
Psychological Health
Aging
Osteoporosis
Arthritis
Exercise Risks

I can implement and supervise exercise prescriptions referrals for People with Disabilities, such as:

Physical Disabilities
ADD-ADHD
Arthritis
Autism
Cerebral palsy
Convulsive disorders
Diabetes
Down Syndrome
Muscular Dystrophy Report
Spinal Cord Injury
Vision Impairments

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If you are a referred client/patient

Once the Physician, PT, OT, Lawyer, Adjuster, Insurance Company, WCB, or ICBC, has made the recommendations for your long-term exercise prescription/ active rehab program or your general lifestyle modification program designed to increase the level of physical activity and prevent injuries and disorders, this program has to be implemented and supervised. As a Registered Kinesiologist and Personal Trainer Specialists I am qualified to:

Work with your Physician, PT, OT, Lawyer, Adjuster, Insurance Company, WCB, or ICBC to develop a safe and specifically designed health and fitness program
Dialogue with your Physician, PT, OT, Lawyer, Adjuster, Insurance Company, WCB, or ICBC regarding modifications
Implement and carry out the recommended exercise program
Supervise your long term progress

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Why Refer?

According to Dr. Ken Kinakin DC, CSCS, in his presentation "Bridging the Gap Between Doctor Therapist and Personal Trainer", the greatest gap between health care professionals and the personal trainer is "the lack of education, networking and communication skills in regards to the prevention and treatment of fitness injuries". As an Exercise Scientist, Registered Kinesiologist, Certified Fitness Consultant, and Personal Trainer Specialist I have the knowledge and skills to close this gap. I appreciate working in a collaborative fashion with other allied health professionals to provide the safest and best care for the client.

Recent trends in the health care industry underscore the need for close professional collaboration between trusted professionals.

"The Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, a medical 'think tank', believes that physicians treating patients with chronic illness such as cancer may soon be accused of negligence and malpractice if they do not inform their patients about the cultural/lifestyle causes of their disease and make lifestyle recommendations." (Winter 2004 Vol. 5 No.1 issue of Abreast in the West)

The above statement implies that Physicians will take a greater interest in recommending lifestyle changes and thus will require qualified individuals, such as Registered Kinesiologists, Certified Fitness Consultants, and Personal Trainer Specialists, such as myself, to implement these changes.

According to an Archives of Internal Medicine report, physicians and other health care professionals are to provide a "call to action" in curbing the dangerous and escalating national and global epidemics of obesity and sedentary lifestyle- 300,000 premature deaths and more than $90 billion in health care costs each year in the USA! (Archives of Internal Medicine Vol. 164 No. 3, pp. 237-340)

"We're treating the symptoms of the disease, rather than the root cause," said Dr. Jo Ann Manson, the report's lead author and chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Manson stated the health care professional needs only a few minutes to make some recommendations to the patient, otherwise: "We will be spending more and more of our time addressing the health consequences of obesity if we don't spend these few minutes with prevention."

"It should not be left to the diet books and health clubs," said co-authored Dr. Philip Greenland, a Chicago heart specialist. "This is really a serious medical issue and it should be conveyed to patients as a serious medical issue."

The recommendations include:

Assessing body mass index (BMI) and waist measurements and discussing patients' activity levels at every visit. Patients who are not overweight should be congratulated. Overweight patients should be told about the dangers, which include a doubling of the risk of heart disease and a tripling of the risk of diabetes for people with a body-mass index of 30 or higher, which is obese.
Counseling overweight patients to reduce their daily food intake by 500 to 1,000 calories and get more exercise, with a goal of losing up to two pounds a week.
Writing a prescription for exercise, such as walking a mile briskly at least five days a week. Sedentary patients also should be advised to incorporate more activity into their daily routines by doing things like using stairs instead of elevators, walking during lunch breaks or getting off the bus or subway a stop early and walking home.
Using a pedometer can help motivate some patients to walk more. A good long-term goal is to take 10,000 steps daily; many people average about half that. [see: http://www.diabetescareguide.com/articles/pedometer.htm]
Strength training or weightlifting, to help raise metabolism.
Weight-loss medication for obese patients who do not shed pounds after several months of cutting calories and increasing activity.

Source: Associated Press (February 9/04) http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/7914450.htm

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