Pocket Guide
Wellness Screening Pocket Guide - Client Tool
Healthy Habits:
- ChooseMyPlate.gov provides resources to help with healthy nutrition including tip sheets, recipes and more
- National Sleep Foundation provides information on how sleep impacts health and wellness, information on various sleep disorders and treatment options
- National Institute of Mental Health provides resources to help better understand stress and mental health including brochures and facts sheets and also how to find treatment
- Smoking Cessation provides strategies to help people quit smoking
- US Prevention Service Task Force provides evidence based recommendations about clinical prevention services.
Physical Activity, Exercise, Fitness & Wellness:
- National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) includes information on accessible fitness options
- Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion includes current Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans and the Move Your Way Campaign with resources to help promote physical activity, exercise and fitness
- Here are some specific resources developed for people with neurological conditions by physical therapists to help promote lifelong physical activity and exercise… How to Bridge the Gap Between Physical Therapy and Lifelong Physical Activity/ Exercise Summary: Client Handout
- Questions to Ask of Post-Rehabilitation Facilities: Client Handout
Patient Advocacy Organizations with Health Promotion & Wellness Resources::
- Parkinson’s Foundation booklets on fitness, mood, and sleep
- Michael J. Fox Foundation (hover over “Understanding Parkinson’s” for information on diet, exercise, sleep, anxiety, and fatigue):
- American Parkinson’s Disease Association Education and Support Page
- Davis Phinney Foundation -Living Well with Parkinson’s Disease (exercise, sleep, etc.)
- NCHPAD: “Life on Wheels: A guide for living a healthy, active life with a spinal cord injury
- Spinal Cord Injury Essentials patient handouts
- Paralyzed Veterans of America -Adapted Sports
- Craig H Neilsen Foundation -Psychosocial Research (resource for clinical researchers):
- Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
- SCI Action Canada Lab
- National Stroke Association
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
- American Heart/Stroke Association
- Dr. Janice Eng’s Post-Stroke Community Fitness Program.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)