Employee Wellness Program

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Employee Wellness Program
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HFHS Wellness Programs

• Wellness Program offerings include
• 150 Wellness Incentive
• HAPs iStrive Lifestyle Management Programs and
  Succeed Health Risk Assessment
• Wellness screenings (as part of mandatory
  screens)
• Walk for Better Health
• Tobacco Treatment Services
• Flu shots
• Monthly presentations
• Weight Watchers At-Work
• Between July 2007 and January 30, 2009,
  2,538 employees and their family members joined
  Weight Watchers and together have lost 19,977
  pounds!
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Diabetes in Active Care (in partnership with
  Diabetes Care Center)
• Stress and Pain Free Living Program (in
  partnership with Center for Integrative Wellness)

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www.henryfordconnect.com/wellness

• Sign up to be a Wellness Ambassador!

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Earn the 2009
150 Wellness Incentive!
Participate by August
31, 2009.
Complete the online HAP iStrive Succeed Health
Risk Assessment AND Submit the 2009 Wellness
Incentive Participation Form Visit
www.henryfordconnect.com/wellness.
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Living a Headache-free Life Made Easy!!

• Dr. Bob Levine, Ph.D., C.Ht., Director
• Center for Integrative Wellness, and
• Integrative Wellness Research
• Henry Ford Health System
• Southfield, MI 48033
• [phone] bob_at_drboblevine.com

HFHS Lunch Learns, Spring/Summer 2009
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Headache Occurrence

• How many of you have EVER experienced a headache?
• How many of you have NEVER experienced a
  headache?
• Who is not sure if you ever had one?
• Our team in the Center for Integrative Wellness
  has treated and resolved headaches for many
  hundreds of patients

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Center for Integrative Wellness

• Formed in 2008 administrative offices in
  Southfield
• Distinct from the Center for Integrative Medicine
  in Novi (offering individual patient care)
• Offers award-winning group wellness programs for
  chronic pain and stress alleviation and
  elimination
  (No individual care
  provided)

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Center for Integrative WellnessAward-winning
Group Wellness Programs

• Chrysler Weve Got Your Back (96 participants)
• ELIMINATION of chronic back pain in 55 of
  reporting participants (compared to 5 with PT)
• significant reductions in disability, stress, and
  depression symptoms, with improved sleep
• HFHS Focus on People Quality Expo 2007 Detroit
  Crains Healthcare Heroes 2008
• Chrysler and HFHS Pain Free in 2008 (175
  participants)
• 35 ELIMINATION of all chronic pain conditions
  including headaches
• significant reductions in disability, stress, and
  depression symptoms, with improved sleep
• HFHS Quality Expo 2008

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Center for Integrative WellnessRecent Group
Program Offerings

• Chrysler StressLess
  (completed in 1st quarter 2009)
• HFHS Stress and Pain Free Living (current
  offering in 2009)

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Center for Integrative WellnessSummary of Group
Wellness Programs

• Starting in 2007 to present
• Conducted 12 group programs (Chrysler and HFHS)
• Treated over 700 people with 2,100 pain
  conditions (3 each)
• Average elimination of all chronic pain
  conditions 50
• EVERY group has demonstrated significant (plt.01)
• Pain reduction (gt80)
• Pain ELIMINATION (50)
• Reduction/ELIMINATION of pain medication
• Reduction in disability
• Reduction in stress
• Reduction in depression symptoms
• Improved sleep

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Center for Integrative WellnessHeadache Results
in Group Wellness Programs
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Anonymous Group Participant Feedback
Just wanted to let you know that I realized one
day that I'd not had a migraine headache in
several weeks and that the pain in my knees has
gone also. This is so great, I cannot believe
it. I've also lost 21 pounds. I am in a weight
management program, but I strongly believe that
listening to the CDs and focusing on reducing my
stress, has certainly played a pivotal role my
ability to be true to my weight loss efforts. I
have not been experiencing any binge eating, or
cheating. My attitude is very positive, it has
amazed my husband, who is being motivated to
change his eating habits towards healthier eating
by what he is seeing in me.
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Headaches in the U.S. Population

• 45 million Americans suffer from chronic,
  recurring headaches
• 28 million suffer from migraines
• About 20 of children and adolescents also have
  significant headaches

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Headache Diagnoses

• Migraine
• Cervicogenic
• Tension
• Cluster
• Hormone
• Mixed headache syndrome
• Sinus
• Chronic progressive
• Pre-orgasmic (NO-HIGH)
• How many of you know your headache diagnosis?
• How many of you think you are stuck with it?

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The Future Image/View Regarding Headaches

• Your future image your view of your future
• How many of you think you are probably stuck with
  having headaches in the future?
• How many of you will continue to wonder at times
  when the next headache is coming?
• If yes, your future image or view is NOT
• I am headache free from now on and forever and
  I love it!
• Your future image or view is something like
• I will have headaches and its just a matter of
  when.. and I wont like it when it happens!

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Experience the Benefits

• Who is experiencing a headache? Characterize..
• Guided relaxation for new awareness
  (language-based mind-body connection technique)
• I guide
• You relax
• You gain new awareness of the right type
• You intervene with your headache
• Your headache disappears
• Who had a headache disappear?

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Experience the Benefits

• Somatic education for new awareness (non-language
  based mind-body connection technique)
• Head rotation
• Head forward, backward
• Head tilt, shoulder raise, head and shoulder
  together
• Jaw series
• Shoulder circles

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Thanks for being here today. Heres to your
headache-free future!