Nutrition’s Impact on Performance & Recovery in Rehabilitation

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Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP Related seminars and products

Lockhart Wellness Solutions, LLC

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Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP, is board-certified as an integrative and functional nutrition practitioner with over 30 years in professional practice. She has trained nutrition, fitness, and medical practitioners throughout most of her career, yet maintains a personal practice with clients as she believes that the only way she can effectively educate and inspire other practitioners is through her own practical experience with clients. In addition to educating on how Food is Medicine, Cindi also specializes in coaching clients and practitioners on the importance of managing stress, optimizing sleep, proper exercise and movement, and reducing exposure to environmental toxins. Cindi has extensive expertise in women’s health issues including perimenopause/menopause and thyroid dysfunction as well as autoimmunity, gut health, weight management, cardiometabolic health (insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease), fasting, histamine intolerance, mold detox, and long COVID.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cindi Lockhart is the owner and founder of Lockhart Wellness Solutions, LLC. and is a contributing author for Experience Life Magazine. She receives compensation from Fullscript. Cindi Lockhart receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Cindi Lockhart is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietitians in Integrative & Functional Medicine, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Integrative & Functional Nutrition Academy.

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Objectives

1. Distinguish how nutrition impacts a patient’s overall function and recovery during rehabilitation services.
2. Determine how to assess a patient’s nutritional status and when to refer out to a nutrition professional.
3. Evaluate for common nutritional risks and articulate action steps to help optimize a patient’s nutritional state.

Outline

Food as Medicine

• Nutrition’s impact on overall function: physical recovery, energy and sleep
  • Common nutrient insufficiencies 
  • Common nutrient excesses

Food’s impact on inflammation and oxidative stress

• What is inflammation?
• Most inflammatory foods?
• Anti-inflammatory diet
• What is oxidative stress?
• Common nutritional habits that increase oxidative stress

Assessing nutritional status

• Anthropometrics
• Nutrition physical exam
• 3-day diet recall: pros/cons
• Food frequency
• When to refer out to nutrition professional

Target Audience

• Physical Therapists
• Physical Therapy Assistants
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech/Language Pathologist
• Athletic Trainer
• Massage therapists