FirstLine Therapy Confronts Lifestyle-Related Diseases Head-On
Although positive clinical outcomes from TLC are gaining wide acceptance, a recent publication in the Archives of Internal Medicine (2001 Vol. 161(13), pp. 1599-1604) infers that most practitioners do not counsel their patients on diet, dietary supplements, exercise, and other lifestyle factors. This is unfortunate since a national study conducted by The Hartman Group shows that a majority of patients would like their healthcare provider to help them with lifestyle changes. However, many practitioners find that time constraints, financial pressures, or lack of appropriate tools and training make it difficult to address lifestyle issues in everyday clinical practice.
FirstLine Therapy (FLT) is a system for implementing “therapeutic lifestyle changes” designed to help practitioners overcome those obstacles. FLT is a clinically effective, practical, time-saving, and rewarding system that makes it easy for you to incorporate lifestyle changes, in a format that patients can understand and follow. Most importantly, patients get results with the FLT program and many are able to achieve their risk-reduction goals without medication in as little as 12 weeks.
Core Components of the FirstLine Therapy Program
To address the underlying causes of chronic illnesses, the FLT system serves as the groundwork for helping patients achieve improved health through diet, exercise, nutritional supplementation, and stress management.
The FirstLine Therapy Program Components
- Patient assessment tools including questionnaires, forms, bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) testing for streamlined, in-office assessment, and for tracking results as patients follow the program.
- Video/DVD and customizable brochures to explain the FLT program to patients and the practitioner to save practitioner time.
- Forms to customize recommendations to the needs of individual patients, including individualized diet, exercise, and nutritional supplement recommendations.
- Patient education materials including a patient guidebook, educational posters for the office, forms to explain BIA results to patients, audio CDs to teach patients stress management techniques, and more.
- PowerPoint® presentations for group meetings or for giving public lectures to promote your FLT program in your community.
- Financial planning tools to help you set pricing that is right for your patients and help you create projections for your practice.
- Certification and ongoing seminars for practitioners and staff members in program implementation.
Help delay the onset of illness in old age and increase the years of good health in all your patients with the FirstLine Therapy program.
What Healthcare Practitioners Say About FirstLine Therapy
“The FirstLine Therapy program is a fantastic addition to my practice. It’s easy to integrate and best of all, my patients are really feeling and seeing positive results.”
— Joel Evans, MD
“The FirstLine Therapy is a critical part of my practice. Without effective lifestyle counseling, I couldn’t practice medicine as effectively. I encourage any practitioner who doesn't currently offer effective lifestyle counseling to consider FirstLine Therapy —you and your patients won’t regret it.”
— Jane Lindberg, MD
“The FirstLine Therapy program is incredible. The turn-key system gave us everything our practice and our patients need to be successful.”
— Monique Class, MS, RN, CS
“We’ve been using FirstLine Therapy in our clinic for the past year with excellent results. This program works! Patient compliance is high and the program is generating a substantial portion of clinic revenue. Most importantly, the program not only addresses a host of health problems, including insulin resistance, it also teaches people how to be healthy for the rest of their lives.”
— Wesley Delport, ND