TheQ means The
Questionnaire.
TheQ is an affectionate short form for the Lifestyle Questionnaire
and Pain Assessment.
LIA stands for Lifestyle Instruction Aid. Think of LIA as First AID for
your lifestyle.
If you are in pain or looking for improvements in your lifestyle then
this site is for you.
The Lifestyle Project and TheQ
An Overview for Health Care Decision
Makers
There are three aspects of the Lifestyle Project that go together.
1. Lifestyle measurement (The Questionnaire (TheQ))
2. One-on-one help (Lifestyle Instructors)
3. Self help. (At home ACTIVE self care.)
The Lifestyle Project and TheQ go together as a team approach to lifestyle improvement and pain
relief. They offer a measurement of a client's lifestyle and pain, then offer personal one-on-one help to
improve the problems that were found on the measurement. The Lifestyle instructor's mandate is to focus on
the Lifestyle Questionnaire Action Plan that is contained in the Lifestyle Report of Findings that is
delivered to the client on the following day after they take the lifestyle questionnaire.
We start with the lofty goal of perfecting optimal health secrets, which includes pain relief.
Those are some things that most people want at one time or another in their lives. We need a lifestyle protocol
geared toward pain relief, but also one that improves the many things that science has shown are helpful for
wellness. A lot is know scientifically about the topic of lifestyle improvement, however, the art factor comes into
strong play when implementing lifestyle improvement modifications. People often resist change and clearly need help
and direction to achieve success.
Self help at home, which includes pain relief without drugs or surgery, is the key to the Lifestyle
instruction program. People need to be taught to help themselves. Of course, manual therapies can be offered if
people ask, but those therapies are secondary additions, often helpful but, in the Lifestyle Protocols, secondary.
The Lifestyle focus is on what the client can do in their own home to help themselves. For instance the Pain Relief
Diet as taught by Dr. Ouellette is a good start. This brings in the Active Care component of optimal health and
pain relief.
When a new client presents, the first thing to ask is, "What are the numbers?" What does the
testing say? We have drafted a thorough comprehensive measure of a client's lifestyle and pain, and have developed
an overall seven step protocol. The measuring tool we are talking about is a questionnaire that asks many of
the same questions a doctor wants to know about in a patient's case history. A retest some time later (three
months), allows for a comparison of the scores and a check on progress.
Key Benefits
What we are looking for as a final goal for the client, are key
benefits. Some key benefits are as follows.
More energy
Less pain
More enjoyment in life
Less stress
More movement
Less restriction
More weight loss
Less frustration
We achieve these benefits by applying the seven step protocol. Of course, from the disease care
industry point of view (currently called the health care industry), a key benefit is a lowering the cost of
expensive professional care.
The Seven Step Lifestyle Protocol
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Make a thorough measure of a client's lifestyle and pain. (TheQ)
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Deliver a Report of Findings that is customized to the client.
(The Lifestyle RoF.)
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Deliver a doable Action Plan that is customized to the client.
(The Lifestyle Action Plan.)
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Provide daily contact for a targeted period of time.
(Automatic email contact for 37 days.)
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One-on-one help to implement the customized Action Plan.
(The Lifestyle Instructor.)
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Standardization of the lifestyle instructor program through two concepts, a set of
instructor's notes customized to the client, and a strict instructor focus protocol.
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| 7. |
Lifestyle Progress Chart on a single page for the Lifestyle instructor and health care
professionals. |
Saving Money
Its about saving money too because you save money when you do things for yourself. Everybody wants to save money.
How does an optimal health pain-free lifestyle save you money? Learning how to help yourself saves you money
because you then won't have to pay for that very same help.
1. Less cost on pain medications.
2. Less cost on muscle spasm medications.
3. Less cost on anti-inflammatory medications.
4. Less cost on alternative/complementary health care professionals.
5. Better sleep thus, better productivity.
6. Better sleep thus, more weight loss.
7. Less cost on the purchase of food.
8. Less cost on dental care.
Why should Insurance companies have an interest in the Lifestyle Project?
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Less cost to the insurance company in drug payments. |
| 2. |
Less cost to insurance companies on back care clients. |
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Less diseases so, less payouts. |
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A healthier population means less costs overall to insurance companies. |
Why should medical doctors have an interest in the Lifestyle Project?
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Finally a place to send a sub group of chronic patients when the specialists are
finished with them. |
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Less stress from patients you don't know how to help. |
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Goodwill creation by referring patients to a place that promotes active self-help
care. |
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Goodwill in the knowledge that you are helping the government keep health care costs
down. |
Why should the governments have an interest in the Lifestyle Project?
Governments are the really big winners.
| 1. |
There is a high number of unfit, plugged-up, food-challenged people pervading our
communities. These people create a huge drain on the health care system. The secret is that these
people can be largely cared for by a self-help, non-professional, lifestyle instructor
program. |
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Less cost to the health care system as people learn to care for themselves. |
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Less burden on health care professionals.
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| 4. |
A happier population translates into more productivity and thus, more in tax
dollars as people earn more money.
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Key Point for Government Leaders to Consider
One of the key points for government leaders, and those evaluating the Lifestyle Project, to consider is the way
the Lifestyle project is structured to incorporate new research. The centralized Lifestyle approach allows quick
and easy upgrading based on new research. Once new research has been corroborated and approved by an authority,
then it is a very simple matter to update questionnaire template files. This can be done in a singe day. All new
Reports, Instructor's Notes, and Lifestyle Action Plans would be automatically updated. No program coding changes
are necessary. This is a huge advantage that makes updates instantly available to all Lifestyle Instructors across
the province as soon at the new questionnaire would be published online. No downtime, no retraining, no expensive
programmers required, no paper bulletins, no announcements are even necessary. This functionality was designed into
the program from the very beginning.
Value
Perceived value and real value
The Lifestyle Project leads to a reduction in health care costs
by getting people to become active in their own health care and thus, reduce the amount of time people spend in
doctors offices. The Lifestyle Project teaches people about themselves and then goes the next step of helping them
achieve the results that they choose to prioritize. The perception of value is separated from real value by
measurement numbers that track progress. It is this unique progress chart that brings the Lifestyle Project to the
head of the line.
The Route to Pleasure
The people who are in health care crises are the people
looking for solutions and are ready to buy. They are also the ones visiting the medical system for free treatment.
People in pain, people with various diseases, and people just interested in lifestyle improvement are the target
group for TheQ.
One very strong value that TheQ has for these people is that it can help them discover aspects of
their lifestyles that they may not have known about. These three groups compose a very large demographic of the
general population.
| The source of pleasure in life is through lifestyle
improvement. |
Whether that improvement be mediated by government or the individual, improving lifestyles is the
route to pleasure.
Note to Clinicians on the Pain Assessment
We would like to comment that the pain assessment that The Q performs is not for diagnostic purposes. We are
interested in assessing improvement in pain over successive questionnaire trials. For the convenience of clinicians
reading this we would refer you to several pain measurements if you are interested in pain quality measurement,
notably the Bournemouth Questionnaire, McGill Pain Questionnaire, Self Efficacy Scale and Pain Catastrophizing
Scale.
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