Episode 1623 - Obesity management: the 5 A's #PTonICE Daily Show

Dr. Ellen Csepe // #ClinicalTuesday // www.ptonice.com 


In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, MMOA faculty member Ellen Csepe discusses using the "Five A's" model in the clinic with patients to begin to address obesity management as part of a plan of care.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
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ELLEN CSEPE
Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the PT on Ice daily show brought to you by the Institute of Clinical Excellence. I'll be your host today. My name is Dr. Ellen Csepe. I'm with the MMOA Older Adult Division, whose life's mission is to give grandma gains this Christmas to fight off frailty and level up what it means to be a geriatric clinician. So before we get started today, let's talk about our upcoming courses. We have two courses online that are eight week long cohorts where we talk about discharging the ankle pump and dialing in our skills for dosing in the level one course, which starts on January 10th. January 11th, our L2, level two course, we take it to the next level to really dial in our skills for older adults with specific conditions like osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and even we have a new segment recently added on cognitive changes in dementia. So we're really glad that you're here today. Our topic for today is gonna be on obesity in the five A's framework. So your job, as a clinician and managing obesity in the Five A's framework. So I don't need to tell you guys, obesity is a growing health concern. Obesity and pre-obesity affect nearly 70% of the American population. This is obviously a big concern for us as a community, as a country, and as clinicians. And believe it or not, most patients believe that this is our job to manage, Managing obesity is something that is within our scope, and talking about the health considerations and health behaviors that contribute to obesity are within our scope as providers. But we have to take on this responsibility with excellence. We do everything here with excellence. And it's unfair to give this patient population anything less than that. And I've been saying this for a while, friends, but Our profession is uniquely positioned not to just add our opinion on how we should manage obesity, but in my opinion, we should be the leaders in health care. for how to manage obesity. We squander so many different resources that puts our profession above others. Things like time. We have more time with patients than any other provider and we often waste that resource because we're not confident in managing this problem well. We spend so much time with our patients and we have the strongest therapeutic alliance