Exercise is medicine worth taking
MyFitScript urges individuals and families in Tennessee to increase their physical activity during May’s Exercise is Medicine® Month. In the month of May, the public is encouraged to get active, and health care professionals are asked to prescribe exercise for their patients.
The Patient Partner: Managing your heart failure with success
In this month’s column, we would like to introduce a resource for patient education for those individuals living with heart failure. Qualidigm is a consulting and research company whose mission is advancing the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of health care to achieve better health, better health care and the best value for patients.
Cash in on your belly account!
Compelling evidence proves that dietary improvements can prevent or delay the onset of major chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and osteoporosis. However, is it compelling enough for us to change how we eat? MyFitScript is recognizing National Nutrition Month with an emphasis on belly fat reduction.
The Patient Partner: Be engaged, be empowered
Today, you find yourself in the emergency department of your local hospital with serious complications of a heart attack.
The Patient Partner: Healthcare shopping for the novice
Wear a pair of good walking shoes. Pack an energy bar and bottle of water. We're going shopping!
Celebrating Senior Independence Month
February is best known for American Heart Month. You will probably see television commercials, magazine articles, and other activities focused on improving heart care to remind us of the importance.
The Patient Partner: A New Year for being your own health manager
What does empowerment mean? To be empowered is to be strong and confident in managing your life. It has been shown that empowered patients, working alongside their health providers, can improve their own health outcomes.
Moving from 'I won't' to 'I am' stages of change
Change occurs gradually through various stages. If you are uninterested or unwilling to make a change, you are in the pre-contemplation stage. Exercise is not even a distant thought. Sometimes, overweight individuals may have tried unsuccessfully many times to lose weight that they have just given up. This is the ‘I won’t’ stage.
Walk off your depression
You have probably heard that exercise can improve your mood, improve how you feel and think about yourself, and decrease depression and anxiety.
The Patient Partner: How YOU can avoid returning to the hospital
In the current healthcare environment, hospitals are being asked to work closely with community providers to help prevent unnecessary hospital readmissions. A readmission, in this context, is a return visit to the hospital within 30 days.
The Patient Partner: Holiday travel, fruitcakes and blood clots!
The holiday season is fast approaching! Aunt Gertrude has sent you yet another fruitcake.
Exercising with diabetes is a sweet thing
Studies show that regular physical activity improves blood glucose control and can prevent or delay the onset of Type 2 Diabetes.
The Patient Partner: Decreasing falls is a balancing act
Being hospitalized is a trying ordeal. Falling while in the hospital makes your stay more trying and may be preventable! Despite the growing implementation of falls prevention programs in hospitals, patients also can do more to prevent themselves from taking a spill. Many of these fall prevention programs include appropriate and timely identification of those patients at highest risk for falls.
Wheelchair exercise is on a roll
Many individuals that are in a wheelchair find it difficult to get motivated to exercise. You are no different than the rest of us when it comes to that!
What does healthy aging mean?
I'm celebrating my 50th birthday this year. For the fourth time.
Are you ready to exercise?
This month’s feature is about assessing your readiness to exercise.
Low-Impact walking for high-impact benefits
What can we say about the activity of walking that we don't already know or haven't heard before?
The Whispered Disease: Cancer
Do you remember the movie "Terms of Endearment," the 1983 drama film starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson?
Fat: Burn it and churn it!
When it comes to fat loss, you have to burn it up and churn it out over time.
Bone up on Osteoporosis
May is officially National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention month, but March is officially here – and I’m all about the now.
Glass half-full outlook may protect your heart
To those who know me, it’s no secret that I tend to be a glass half-empty gal. I have friends that are glass half-full people. I can’t be around them for too long, it’s annoying. I believe the glass is defective; ergo, this month’s feature.
Good intentions don't burn calories: Finding your 'readiness' factor
Many of us enter the New Year with every intention to break old habits. Last year, your six-month commitment to exercise and no more chocolate lasted through January 15th. You had good intentions! You had determination! You had willpower! Until you had chocolate.
