Foothills Health Consultants uses an integrative approach incorporating a variety of proven complementary programs and therapies. These help address all aspects of your health, physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual.
Experts helping you keep your health on track all year long.
CHAMP is designed for individuals, families and employers looking for comprehensive, timely healthcare services on an ongoing basis. CHAMP offers services usually provided by a family physician as well as services not covered by Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan (AHCIP) or other provincial, company or private plans, such as health counseling, telephone advice, email access and extra time to explore more complex issues.
Proactive and personal, your CHAMP program is designed in collaboration with you, your physician and Care Coordinator and delivered by your physician-led team consisting of dietitians, exercise physiologists and other integrated medical health specialists.
CHAMP allows you to explore conventional, integrative and complementary options to optimize your health and tackle short and long-term risk factors that affect lifelong physical and emotional health and performance at work and at home.
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Our personal Weight Management Programs are designed for people who need a flexible, customized program that achieves healthy weight loss and lifestyle practices. The program is personalized to meet your specific weight, health and lifestyle needs. Our team of health professionals includes a health coach, dietitian and exercise physiologist. A Health Coach will design your program and work with you in person, over the telephone if you're out of town, or via electronic communication depending on your preference.
Our personal nutrition health coach program is a
customized nutrition education program. Prior to starting
the program, you will be asked to fill out a lifestyle assessment
questionnaire and a three-day food journal. This information
is gathered to allow your dietitian develop a personalized
nutrition education program and complete a computerized
detailed nutrient analysis. Once this information is received,
your program will start with a one-hour Comprehensive
Nutrition Consultation. At this session, your dietitian will review
your diet analysis and provide personalized nutrition counseling.
Depending on the program chosen, your initial consultation is followed
by two or four additional nutrition education sessions. Each coaching
session includes education resources and motivational goal setting advice.
All sessions are provided in person at the Foothills Health Consultants
office.
Telephone coaching for the entire program is available if required.
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The focus of muscle imbalance testing is to identify abnormal movement patterns and associated muscle dysfunctions.
Our testing involves an evaluation of the neck, shoulder complex, trunk, pelvis, hip complex, and lower extremity. Movement tests will then be used to assess correct muscle activation and sequence of recruitment during motion. Based on the findings, your healthcare team will prescribe functional corrective e xercises to address your individual concerns.
Improving strength, endurance and flexibility improves your overall health.
Working with our certified exercise physiologists (CEPs) we will create a program you can do at home, at the gym or on the road. Our CEPs will support, motivate and monitor your results to help you achieve your fitness goals. We can develop your program at our offices - or we can travel to your home and tailor your program using your own equipment.
Therapeutic massage offers invaluable systemic effects.
It stimulates vascular and lymphatic circulation, which can improve tissue health, increase joint nutrition, increase waste elimination and decrease swelling. Massage promotes relaxation, alleviates stress, tension and may improve sleep. It can also have an energizing effect helping you feel more alert. Working with your health team our RMT will understand your whole health providing tailored massage therapy that is integrated into your healthcare plan.
Many corporate health spending accounts cover these services.
Therapeutic Massage
Therapeutic Massage is often utilized for treatment of sports injuries, household or motor vehicle accidents, repetitive actions on the job, and tension from everyday stresses. Therapeutic massage offers invaluable systemic effects. It stimulates vascular and lymphatic circulation, which can improve tissue health, increase joint nutrition, increase waste elimination and decrease swelling.
Craniosacral Therapy
Akin to ripples across the water, Craniosacral Therapy mirrors the fluid, liquid-like movements of healing. This subtle, non-invasive treatment works to heal the cranial sacral system (the area in which the brain and spinal cord function), thus freeing blockages within the system and allowing the free-flow of cerebrospinal fluid around the brain and spinal chord. Creating rebalance, this therapy helps dissipate the negative effects of stress, and enhances general health and resistance to disease. Clients of Craniosacral Therapy often report a sense of peace and inner-balance following this relaxing treatment.
Reflexology
Concentrating on the body's energy channels, Reflexology is a holistic therapy that stimulates specific reflex points. This form of manipulation, which assists in balancing and rejuvenating the body, helps to revitalize the circulatory system, promoting proper function to the immune system. This method of finger manipulation frees the flow of chi (the life force energy), which corrects energy imbalances and releases toxins within the body. This age-old therapy is rooted in Asian culture and philosophy as a medicine-free way to heal the body.
Thai Yoga Massage
Traditional Thai Massage uses rhythmic compressions applied to specific energy lines, gentle rocking techniques, and deep stretching to restore a sense of well-being and to reinvigorate the body. It is often referred to as "Yoga Massage" because of the yoga-like positions that the practitioner puts the client's body into while applying stretches. Traditional Thai Massage is done on a mat on the floor with the client in loose-fitting, comfortable clothing that will allow the body to move and stretch. However, Thai Massage has been adapted so it can be delivered on a table as well.
