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Lifestyle Medicine

Enhancing Rehabilitative Medicine with Lifestyle Medicine **NEW FREE ONE-DAY COURSE: 26 OCT** 1763

Sunday, October 26, 2025
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM  
Location:  ROOM: Continental Ballroom B & C DIRECTIONS: Lobby Level: From the Main Elevator Bank, proceed right toward the FedEx Office. At the Fed Ex Office, turn right and proceed past the ACRM Registration Desk and into the Continental Foyer. Continental B & C Lobby is directly adjacent to the center section of the Continental Ballroom.

Lifestyle medicine is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field within medicine that focuses on therapeutic lifestyle interventions for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of noncommunicable chronic diseases. Lifestyle medicine has been applied across multiple disciplines and specialties within healthcare. Lifestyle medicine and rehabilitative medicine both aim to address health restoration and improvement of physical function and quality of life for individuals across the care continuum. 

The main pillars of lifestyle medicine can be categorized into nutrition, physical activity, stress reduction, social connectivity, avoidance of risky substances, and restful sleep.  Physiatrists, alongside the entire interdisciplinary healthcare team, can support therapeutic lifestyle interventions through the application of these pillars in clinical practice. 

This workshop will aim to address the following concepts of Lifestyle Medicine 



  • Introduction and definition of lifestyle medicine 



  • The connection of lifestyle medicine to chronic disease and its intersection with rehabilitative medicine



  • Application of the six pillars of lifestyle medicine in rehab settings



  • Effective and reimbursable delivery models for successful application of lifestyle medicine in rehabilitation settings 



  • The role of the physiatrist in incorporating lifestyle medicine principals into existing rehabilitative medicine care delivery and treatment plans.



  • An exploration of the tools and resources to support the integration of lifestyle medicine 


Learning Objectives:

  • Define lifestyle medicine
  • Explain the connection of lifestyle medicine to chronic disease and its intersection with rehabilitative medicine
  • Apply the six pillars of lifestyle medicine in rehab settings
  • Discuss effective delivery models for successful application of lifestyle medicine in rehabilitation settings
  • Describe the role of the physiatrist in incorporating lifestyle medicine principals into existing rehabilitative medicine care delivery and treatment plans.