increased exponentially. Without edu-cating patients about the raw materials necessary to be healthy – including diet, movement, thought patterns – they remain overwhelmed by the stressors that they face personally and environemntally,” she says. “A well-ness-focused chiropractic practice ed-ucates each patient to ensure that the day-to-day choices that patient makes are congruent with their genetic profile for their health and well-being.” A follower of the wellness strategy as advanced by Chestnut and the ICA, Ferretti has all her staff take the certi-fication program. From her perspec-tive, patient and public education lec-tures are a part of a wellness practice offering, and provides answers to the confusing and often misleading infor-mation concerning health in industri-alized society. “There are times when teaching a person to ask the right questions regard-ing their lifestyle choices is all it takes to allow a shift in their paradigm, to ease them away from poor health choices,” Ferretti says. “the success of a well-ness-based practice is driven by the desire for a long and healthy life – for oneself, one’s family and one’s commu-nity. Any practice that is a source of scientific and clinical holistic wellness and that provides to their patients evi-dence regarding the benefits of chiro-practic care and wellness lifestyle choices is a wellness practice,” she says. The 14 Foundational Premises by Chestnut is a “textbook” that Ferretti insists provided her practice, “with a level of certainty for the chiropractic health service [she] offers, but it was the wellness certification program that gave [her] the training and skills to effectively coach patients into empow-erment regarding their health.” What are the rewards of building a chiropractic wellness practice? “That is simple,” Chestnut chuckles. “Better patient outcomes. In terms of patient outcomes, a chiropractor must address the lifestyle factors that drive health and illness. You simply cannot correct nutritional, exercise or psychosocial health deficiencies and toxicities with adjustments and you simply cannot get the same physiological response to chiropractic adjustments in patients who are deficient or toxic. “You could argue about whether or not you are obligated to provide life-style care but you cannot logically argue about whether or not chiroprac-tic plus lifestyle elicit better patient outcomes than either alone,” Chestnut says. My obligation is to patients and to patient outcomes. I strongly believe and can support with the best evi-dence from the best physiologists and neurophysiologists in the world, pub-lished in the world’s most respected journals, that the chiropractic health tenets are correct and that this makes chiropractic the best choice to elicit the best patient outcomes.” -every major ideos V 190 muscle The best app for patient education. Foam Roller Techniques puts a video library at their finger tips. Tap a muscle and watch the proper rolling technique demonstrated. Includes progression and regression variations as well as search by sport or injury. Based on the Roll Release® system by Dr. Ryan Emmons. FoamRollerApp.com www.canadianchiropractor.ca February 2015 Canadian Chiropractor 31
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