Background: Burnout poses significant challenges during training years in residency and later in the career. Meditation is a tool to treat stress-related conditions and promote wellness. Telomere length may be affected by burnout and stress. However, the benefits of meditation have not been fully demonstrated in health care professionals. Objective: We assessed the effects of a 12-week 'Heartfu...

AND JUDITH A. SHINOGLE PH.D. W orksite wellness programs are becoming increasingly popular among U.S. employers. In 2011, 74 percent of employers offered health benefits and some form of worksite wellness programs, including weight-loss programs, gym membership discounts, on-site exercise facilities, smoking cessation programs, personal health coaching, classes in nutrition or healthy living, o...

BACKGROUND The Internet has become a common source of information for patients wishing to learn about health information. Previous studies found information related to back pain poor and often contradictory to current guidelines. Wellness has become a common topic in the field of chiropractic and accrediting agencies have standards on delivery of wellness-based content in college curricula as w...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE Review the operational definitions of health and wellness coaching as published in the peer-reviewed medical literature. BACKGROUND As global rates of preventable chronic diseases have reached epidemic proportions, there has been an increased focus on strategies to improve health behaviors and associated outcomes. One such strategy, health and wellness coaching, has been inc...

Iwould like to take this opportunity in this final issue of 2009 to underscore the insightful observations made by the newly appointed Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Dr Nicole Lurie, in recognizing the essential links between prevention, wellness, and preparedness. It is generally known and widely accepted that even though the United States spends more than $2 trillion annua...

Abstract Subjective wellness data can provide important information on the well-being of athletes and be used to maximize player performance detect prevent against injury. Wellness data, which are often ordinal multivariate, include metrics relating physical, mental, emotional status athlete. Training recovery have significant short- long-term effects athlete wellness, these vary across individ...