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

by Ocs (Author), Faclm (Foreword by)

This holistic guide provides an integrative toolbox on how healthcare and fitness professionals can promote lifestyle medicine with their clients. Its clinical and evidence-informed approach focuses on the six primary lifestyle medicine factors: nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, stress management, risky substance use, and social connectedness. Each factor is enriched with a variety of strategies and advice including anti-inflammatory recipes, self-guided visualisation, tips on how to break bad habits, sustainable fitness, and mind-body exercises.

Based on the author's 30+ years of experience as a trained physical therapist treating musculoskeletal conditions, this book's nonpharmacological and nonsurgical focus allows clients to feel empowered in taking charge of their health through a plethora of resources and techniques. It provides clear, actionable steps and real-world examples in order to nurture sustainable changes that promote long-term health and healing.

Author Biography

Ziya "Z" Altug, PT, DPT, MS, OCS, is a board-certified doctor of physical therapy. He has over three decades' of clinical experience in treating musculoskeletal conditions. Z uses integrative and lifestyle medicine to help patients and clients improve their well-being and manage pain. He is the author of three books and a long-standing member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Z runs a number of courses on Physiopedia Plus and is based in Los Angeles.