Lifestyle Medicine doctor consultation: follow-up appointment

Lifestyle Medicine doctor consultation: follow-up appointment

Lifestyle Medicine is a field of conventional medicine. It aims to promote a healthy lifestyle, prevent lifestyle diseases and support efficient non-pharmacological treatment by changing everyday habits in 6 main areas affecting health: diet, physical activity, healthy sleep, emotion management, social relations and avoidance of stimulants.

Making changes in habits under the supervision of a qualified Medicover doctor can help not only prevent disease but also stop or even reverse the disease process.

The appointment lasts 15 minutes and is available as a follow-up consultation with a Lifestyle Medicine doctor.

When should you visit a Lifestyle Medicine doctor?

The purpose of the next consultation with the MSŻ doctor is to continue working on modifying those areas of the patient's life that are the cause of his health problems. The most common are: eating habits, physical activity, stress management, sleep disorders, interpersonal relations, use of stimulants. According to population data, the most common lifestyle-related health problems include: overweight or obesity,   dyslipidaemia, arterial hypertension tobacco addiction,  diabetes.  In each of these conditions, the treatment is based on lifestyle modification.

Lifestyle Medicine - for whom it is intended

An appointment with a Lifestyle Medicine doctor is advisable both for preventive health care and for specific lifestyle-related ailments or diseases, such as overweight, obesity, diabetes or hypertension. It is recommended for persons who want to support the treatment of chronic diseases or learn how to cope with stress. It is also intended for patients who do not see the results of their diets or constantly return to their addictions and have repeatedly heard that they should change their lifestyle but do not know how to do it.

The 15-minute appointment is recommended for those who have already had their 30-minute first-time appointment. You can order a first-time appointment HERE.

Your benefits

Through the consultation, you will understand how your lifestyle affects your health and learn what you can do to achieve lasting improvement in your health and well-being.

• You will get a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of life affecting your health.
• At the first appointment, you will receive a personalized lifestyle intervention plan based on mutually agreed priority therapeutic goals and your expectations, as well as assistance in its implementation - written recommendations and educational materials to help you carry out specific actions.
• You will replace old habits with new, healthy ones - so you can control your health and keep it in a good shape.
• When diagnosed with abnormalities that require further diagnosis and/or treatment, you will receive recommendations in line with the scope of care.

A permanent change of lifestyle requires constant cooperation with your doctor.

As part of the consultation, you will have a 15-minute personalized appointment with a qualified Lifestyle Medicine doctor.

During the consultation, the doctor will: conduct a medical interview with you and supplement the first-time interview with missing information, analyse and discuss with you the results of the medical tests and surveys/questionnaires/logs that you were given to complete at home, perform a physical examination and measure your blood pressure, height, weight and waist girth as needed, verify the accomplishment of therapeutic goals, identify difficulties, and modify the goals of treatment if necessary, introduce and discuss further interventions and lifestyle modifications as necessary, motivate you to keep up changing your lifestyle or to introduce new changes, define further therapeutic goals with you, determine further action plans and provide recommendations - you will receive a consultation summary - lifestyle intervention plan - follow-up appointment, specify the date of the next follow-up appointment.

The follow-up appointments are to verify goals and monitor how the recommendations are followed.