The iWellcare Solution
Personalized Wellness Empowerment Solutions
Because your patients have unique health needs, we provide custom tools. iWellcare Personalized Wellness Empowerment Solutions are offered at our Sandy, Utah facility and also outsourced by us in hospitals, clinics and businesses:
- One-on-one Nutrition Consulting: licensed dieticians help your patients with weight loss, cardiovascular health, hypertension, pre and post-natal nutrition, sports nutrition, diabetes, vegetarianism and other special nutrition needs. Patients are trained to understand how sickness can be linked to acidic PH and how to alkalize PH through healthy food and fluid intake to prevent disease.
- State of the Art VO2, RMR, Customized Health Assessment, and Blood Testing:
- VO2 testing measures lung capacity and oxygen efficiency. Test data is used to design the optimal exercise program for losing fat and improving cardiovascular health.
- RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate) testing is used to create custom nutrition programs for your patients, effectively enabling them to accomplish their wellness goals.
- Customized Health Assessment: Patients meet with iWellcare staff to review health history, receive state of the art fitness testing that includes flexibility, strength, aerobic fitness, heart rate, blood pressure, body-fat percentage, goniometric joint testing, and functional movement assessment.
- Blood Testing and Medical Screening: we screen blood glucose, cholesterol, and triglycerides. Executive Screening is also available that includes thyroid, blood lactate, sweat sodium analysis, food allergies, resting/exercise electrocardiogram and blood pressure, and comprehensive medical examination.
- Health Empowerment Seminars (taught at your facility for your patients or at our location. These sessions include educational content and hands-on exercise assistance):
- My Health Evolution: full-feature personal health education program in nutrition, balanced exercise, weight loss, and effective emotional energy management.
- Spine and Joint Health Workshop - insightful education program for understanding spine and joint care through body awareness, proper movement, stretching, strength exercise, healthcare options, and nutrition.
- Corrective Exercise Programs: many joint injuries and other health conditions are impacted by imbalance in body structure. Our exercise specialists assist in designing customized strength and aerobic conditioning exercise programs that balance body structure and reduce injury risk.
- My WellChoice: personalized online exercise and nutrition system promoting healthy eating habits, physical fitness and positive behavioral management. Participants receive customized health risk assessment, wellness plans, health and wellness articles, children’s wellness tools, and exercise equipment and fitness facility membership discounts. Registered dieticians, psychologists and fitness professionals are available to answer member questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Personalized Fitness Instruction designed to meet your patients’ needs and facilitate fitness goal achievement.
- Massage Therapy: iWellcare massage therapists specialize in therapeutic and relaxation techniques.
- Insightful health education resources that include audio, video, blogs, and extensive online article database.
Customized Health Assessment
It is absolutely essential that the proper assessment be performed prior to undertaking a lifestyle change program, particularly for those under physician care with special medical needs. Joint issues, past surgeries, gastrointestinal and other medical concerns must all be considered when beginning a lifestyle change program of exercise and healthy nutrition.
All individuals participating in iWellcare Personalized Wellness Empowerment Solutions receive a Lifestyle and Health Risk Appraisal, a tool designed to increase personal awareness of health habits, attitudes and well-being. The appraisal includes questions relating to physical activity, sleep, relaxation, nutrition awareness, environmental awareness, self-expression and creativity, community involvement, automobile safety, and parenting.
Wellness Empowerment Solutions participants meet with iWellcare staff to review health history and receive state of the art fitness testing that includes flexibility, strength, aerobic fitness, heart rate, blood pressure, body-fat percentage, goniometric joint testing, and functional movement assessment. Blood screening services are also available with 24-hour results.
iWellcare programs are coordinated with physicians and other care providers if necessary for safety and appropriate goal progression. Click here to find out how to team with iWellcare.
Success Case Study
In 1986, cardiologist Dean Ornish, M.D. conducted a one-year trial study with heart patients in San Francisco, California. Patients who took part in the study went through a week-long orientation in which they were taught stress management techniques that included breathing, stretching and visualization. They were also educated in healthy eating and exercise.
Following the orientation, patients returned to their homes and met twice a week in support groups with a psychologist. Ornish asked patients to practice the stress management techniques for an hour a day, eat a healthy diet, and exercise at least three hours a week.
After a year participants experienced these results:
- 91 percent decrease in frequency of chest pains.
- 82 percent of patients had reduction in artery blockages.
- Patients averaged a twenty-four pound weight loss and dropped from 30 percent to 6 percent body fat.
- Five years later, study participants continued to practice breathing, stretching and visualization techniques five times a week for forty-nine minutes per day. Their cholesterol consumption remained at less than 10 percent of what it had been before the study. Artery blockages fell from 54 percent to 13 percent. Participants managed to keep off thirteen of the twenty-four pounds they had lost during the one-year program.
Following the trial study, Mutual of Omaha agreed to pay for a three-year study with 333 heart patients from eight states around the country whose insurance programs were willing to pay for angioplasty and coronary bypass surgeries.
194 patients volunteered to participate in Ornish’s lifestyle change program while the other 139 patients underwent heart surgery. Ornish trained support teams in each study location that included a cardiologist, nurse, dietician, fitness trainer, yoga and meditation teacher, and chef.
For the first three months the participants met with support team specialists three times a week for four hours each time. Patients spent an hour exercising, an hour practicing yoga and meditating, an hour in the support group and had an hour-long meal. Then for nine months, patients met once a week. The second and third years patients were left on their own.
Mutual of Omaha’s study reported the following:
- 77 percent of participants avoided the need for heart surgery.
- Study participants lowered their fat intake, averaging an 8 percent caloric intake from fat, and they continued practicing yoga and meditation two hours a week.
