The goal of the Healthy Living Pathway is to help Functional Restoration Program (FRP) graduates maintain their significant functional improvements gained in the FRP, avoid psychological regression, prevent recidivism, and help them transition back to the real world. We have found over the years that, even though most graduates are declared P&S upon completion of the FRP, often times many months or more go by before their cases are finally closed. This seems to create a sort of purgatory for the individual where they are obliged to sit and wait for things to wrap up. The stress they feel during this time over a lack of control of their future, coupled with a loss of structure, seems to contribute to a redirection of their focus away from managing their health effectively and toward more dysfunctional thoughts and actions. Maintaining a sense of connection and support in our facility should help the individual maintain appropriate perspective and positive forward thinkings and maintain physical gains necessary to return to work and life activities at the necessary times. Likewise, we have found that graduates fortunate enough to have jobs waiting for them upon completion of the FRP experience a much greater sense of accomplishment and satisfaction with their life circumstances, and seem to require less support from our team to move forward in a positive direction. We recommend Healthy Living Pathway participation include weekly visits for the first two months, and then twice monthly visits thereafter, for a period of up to six months. The visits include two hours of contact time spent in a combination of small groups, one on one, and in the gym, focusing on: - Movement Education
- Functional Activities
- Maintenance gym program
- Integration of learned tools
- Flare-up management
- Activities of Daily of Living
- Review of vocational activities
- Problem solving reintegration back into society
- Focusing on personal goals
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
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