VIM Performance Medicine Services Include:
360 Assessment
Your health journey begins with a comprehensive assessment. Your Performance Physician learns about your values, goals, current health beliefs, daily routines, sources and strategies of motivation, physical and psychological limitations, support system, and available resources—all critical variables for health behavior change. This is followed by a detailed clinical intake, which includes a detailed health status assessment of current lifestyle behaviors and performance strategies.
VITALITY Report
The Vitality Report provides a synthesis and interpretation of each of the inputs from the 360 Assessment, available medical records, laboratory data and health behavior metrics. Think of the Vitality Report as your current health and performance baseline—your report card. At the end of the report, your Performance Physician highlights potential areas of focus for your Performance Plan.
Performance Plan
You and your Performance Physician co-create a Performance Plan that specifies goals that align with your unique vision of optimal health, wellbeing, and performance. The Performance Plan consist of prioritized performance goals, prioritized health goals, habit development strategies for sustained behavior change, a custom fitness plan, suggested therapies and referrals, a schedule for interval testing and monitoring, a process road map with future considerations, and tools and resources to enable continued education and action.
Preventive & Proactive Health Care
Primary care is an essential piece of any comprehensive health and performance plan. Unfortunately, it is often hard to see the value of primary care in our current health care system. The prescription to “eat better and exercise more, take this pill for your symptom, and come back for another 15-minutes next year” is not only unhelpful, but disempowering. Your Performance Physician practices preventive & proactive care to preserve your health and protect against injury and illness.
performance Medicine coaching
Sure, receiving your Performance Plan is exciting. But implementing the plan is the name of the game. Each person’s path to a healthier self is unique, requiring specific tailoring based on your stage of behavior change, motivations, and life circumstances. Through interval coaching sessions and asynchronous communication, the VIM Medicine team helps you navigate the inevitable twists, turns, highs, and lows along the path toward improved vitality and performance.
provider communication
As you go along your journey, you may have a question, seek advice, or simply need a boost of motivation. Why schedule a formal visit when we have so many ways to communicate these days? You can connect with your Performance Team through virtual visits, phone, and messaging to support your ongoing health and performance needs.
Testing, Tools, & Tech
Both the clinical and consumer health industries pedal a litany of diagnostic test, tools, and technologies to help you better understand and improve your health. At vim, we are on a constant search to find the signals out there amidst a lot of useless noise and hype. We work with you to understand which tests, tools, and technologies make sense for you, including how often and when to use them, such that they complement and help, not confuse and hinder, your progress.
Health Concierge Services
If you see multiple medical providers and/or health practitioners, proper integration of your care and communication amongst your health team is a must. Your Performance Physician has the most comprehensive picture of you and your health and can therefore act as the quarterback for your health and performance needs. This involves aligning with your current providers and facilitating referrals should you need specialized medical care.
VIM Performance Network
The majority of your health happens outside of your doctor’s office and outside of the health care system. Yet the health and wellness industry is littered with unscientific claims, dogmatic thinking, substandard credentialing, and extreme approaches. The Performance Medicine Network consists of best in class practitioners in fields such as nutrition counseling, physical therapy, biomechanical analysis, sports medicine, etc.
Training Plan
Although modern medicine may pay lip service to the importance of physical activity, most physicians don’t know they first thing about how to help improve your fitness. Performance Medicine is predicated on the principle that movement is medicine—health promoting and healing for both body and mind. A foundational component of your prescription for better health and performance is a custom, multimodal training plan.
VIM Personal Training
Depending on your needs and goals, vim clients have access to discounted personal training sessions with top-notch strength and conditioning specialists.