Physicians Rx for Fitness Program

Physicians Rx for Fitness Program

The Physicians Rx for Fitness Program, designed to assist doctors in prescribing exercise for their patients. Working with a selected health organization or clinic, a process would be to allow and encourage physicians to recommend exercise or fitness programs to their patients. This is a critical new step in health improvement, since a doctor does not normally have the time to discuss in this need in depth with the patient.

Fifty-Plus works with the organization to develop a comprehensive approach that lets the doctor make the recommendation and then gives the patient one page with additional details and contact information for Fitness Ambassadors. The Fitness Ambassadors working with the program will be specially trained to help with the selection of the activity the patient will follow as well as provide follow on motivation.

It is envisioned that most of these Fitness Ambassadors will come from employees with the health organization thereby giving greater confidence to both physicians and the patients.

After a period of time and the collection of data on the results of the program, the goal would be to publish the results and then go to other health organizations and encourage their participation.

If your health group or organization is interested in getting more information or participating in this program, please contact Fifty-Plus Lifelong Fitness at (650) 361-8282 or email at info@50plus.org.

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Last updated: July 12, 2007