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Chiropractic, Health Promotion, and Wellness

Author(s): Meridel I. Gatterman, MA, DC, MEd
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763738693
  • ISBN-10:0763738697
  • Paperback    113 pages      © 2007
Price: International Sales $35.95 US List
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Overview

Chiropractors have traditionally counseled patients on health promotion and wellness. For a better understanding of this role, Chiropractic, Health Promotion, and Wellness offers questions and answers across a range of topics including nutrition, exercise, and health behaviors. The doctor of chiropractric as a wellness provider promotes not just spinal health but an encompassing model of health and wellness. This must-have resource provides easy-to-understand, practical information on the ways chiropractors work as partners with individuals in patient-centered atmospheres to improve wellness.

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A practical guide for patients and chiropractors

Offers a clear description of the ways chiropractors work as partners with individuals in a patient centered atmosphere

Contains questions and answers across a range of topics, including nutrition, exercise, and health behaviors.

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ShowTable of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The Chiropractic Wellness Model

  • What is Wellness?
  • The Characteristics of Patient-Centered Care
  • Wellness: A Multidimensional Concept
  • Individualizing Your Wellness Program
  • What Makes Doctors of Chiropractic Suitable as Wellness Clinicians?

Chapter 2: Chiropractic Training in Health Promotion and Wellness Care

  • Chiropractors as Primary Contact Practitioners
  • Education
  • Scope of Chiropractic Practice
  • The Clinical Dilemma of Health Care

Chapter 3: Identifying Risky Behavior

  • Leading Health Indicators
  • Office Screening Procedures
  • Screening for Conditions That Require Special Tests


Chapter 4: Mental Health and Physical Fitness

  • Mental Fitness
  • Physical Fitness
  • The Road Toward Personal Fitness

Chapter 5: You Are What You Eat

  • Macronutrients
  • MyPyramid
  • Micronutrients
  • Developing Health Eating Habits
  • Environmental Aspects of Nutrition
  • Maintaining Health and Promoting Wellness through Nutrition

Chapter 6: Spinal Health Promotion - Ron Kirk


Chapter 7: Performance Enhancement

  • The Science of Human Movement
  • Changing Your Environment Can Affect Your Performance
  • Workplace Environment
  • Recreational Activities
  • Guiding Principles of Performance Enhancement


Chapter 8: Finding Your Wellness Doctor of Chiropractic

  • Availability and Appropriateness
  • Preference
  • Timeliness
  • Your Health Promotion and Wellness Plan
  • Mind-set for a New Model


Appendix A: Straighten Up America: Fitness Fun for Everyone - Ron Kirk

  • A Short History and Introduction to Straighten Up
  • Straighten Up America: Healthy Child and Adult Version
  • Four Segments of Straighten Up
  • "Inner Winner" Posture
  • Spine Tuning Warm-up Preview
  • Posture Pod Preview
  • Wrapping It Up Preview
  • Getting Started with Straighten Up America
  • Straighten Up Lifestyle Choices

Appendix B: Resources

Index


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Meridel I. Gatterman, MA, DC, MEd

Dr Gatterman is the editor of two widely used chiropractic textbooks.   She practiced chiropractic for 13 years. She also has been an active chiropractic educator for 25 years having held administrative positions at colleges in Oregon, and Ontario. She actively contributed to the curriculum at The Colorado Chiropractic College and held a research appointment at a chiropractic college in New York. She is currently on the editorial board of the Chiropractic Journal of Australia and is Chair of the American Chiropractic Association's Subcommittee on Wellness Education.

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