Wellness Division
WELLNESS RE-DISCOVERY.
Wellness re-discovery offers a comprehensive wellness program to companies and individuals in Zimbabwe. When it comes to national productivity and morale, personal wellness and health play a very important role. Our program is designed to educate and encourage the community to optimize their health and lead healthier, happier lives at work and at home.. Wellness is a concept, incorporating, a holistic, practical and tailored approach to maximising the productive ability, state of wellbeing and general enjoyment of life, through modifying life styles to create a healthier, and subsequently happier being. It involves cognitive reasoning to identify particular areas within the life styles of an individual, group or corporate systems, and using motivational, educational and mind set changes techniques, to bring about measured, incremental, long term changes, which benefit the individual, group and corporate systems in a positive and dynamic way.
The process is a mind opening journey through the, misconceptions, misdirections, old wives tales of dangerous ‘magical diets’, unreasonable and expensive yet sorely disappointing keep fit programmes and mass media misdirection reinforcing wrong ideas to sell cheap fads. We aim to give you a simple in-depth explanation that is clear, concise and understandable, an approach that is tailored to a Zimbabwean reality, and specific to the targeted work environment. Then suggest lifestyle changes, which are within the limitations of resources, corporate guidelines, and cultural norms. By:
- Articulating clearly the benefits of life style changes, and the benefit individual and corporate productivity
- Motivating and educating the target audience in making long term incremental lifestyle modifications. Including: actively thinking about nutritional decisions, rationally increasing manageable physical activity, regulating sleep patterns, encouraging good help seeking behaviour, getting treatment for chronic diseases early so as not to disrupt the normal flow of life and work, managing acute conditions expeditiously, giving more in-depth and detailed information on conditions and how they affect each individual on a personal scale within their set reality. All this while maintaining discretion and respecting the right to privacy.
- Designing wellness programmes, setting up individualized benchmarks, monitoring and evaluation tools, and follow up techniques.
ROLE OF A PHYSIOTHERAPIST IN WELLNESS PROGRAMS
Physiotherapy can make a difference in an individual’s ability to live an active, healthy lifestyle. For many seniors, disabled or chronically ill people, physiotherapy is the key to restoring and maintaining a level of physical function that permits independent living. Physiotherapy is one way to successfully push physical limitations to secure the Freedom to Function.
Physiotherapy benefits include decreasing pain, improving joint mobility, increasing strength and coordination and improved cardio-respiratory function. Everyone can benefit from physiotherapy whether you are living with a chronic illness, recovering from a work injury or suffering after that weekend soccer game.
Physiotherapy increases your independence and gives you the Freedom to Function in your home, workplace or your favourite leisure activity. Physiotherapy offers a range of specialized services of benefit to patients with heart and lung disease, traumatic, workplace and athletic injuries, amputations, arthritic joints, stroke, brain injury, spinal cord and nerve injury, cancer and pre-and post-surgical needs.
THE ROLE OF A NUTRITIONIST IN A WELLNESS PROGRAM
Most if not all non-communicable diseases are diet related. A good wellness program has to communicate the effects of not eating healthy food, what can be done to correct the unhealthy lifestyle and the results and benefits of eating healthy. An unhealthy diet presents as a high risk factor for non-communicable diseases and these include, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, heart diseases, etc.
Most if not all non-communicable diseases are diet related. A good wellness program has to communicate the effects of not eating healthy food, what can be done to correct the unhealthy lifestyle and the results and benefits of eating healthy. An unhealthy diet presents as a high risk factor for non-communicable diseases and these include, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, heart diseases, etc.
An unhealthy lifestyle characterized by not exercising, high fat, low fruits and vegetables, high alcohol consumption, high sugar, smoking and high sodium intake presents as high risk factors for occurrence of non communicable diseases can occur. This will likely lead to obesity, swelling of feet in some instances, back pain, and most probably diabetes , high blood pressure or even cancer. It is therefore important for a wellness program to include a nutritionist who will articulate how best to deal with such issues, how to avoid them and how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The aim of including a nutritionist in a wellness program is to have a good diet as a preventative rather than curative measure. In most cases when the diet is right medicine is of no need.