Small lifestyle changes make a big impact on your health
Prescribe FIT is a proven lifestyle coaching program—not a fad diet or short-lived workout plan—that helps you improve your health at home by focusing on the root causes of your knee, hip, ankle, back and joint issues.
Why Prescribe FIT?
Feel better and get back to the life you want. Prescribe FIT is different than anything you’ve tried before. We meet patients where they are in their health journey by forming personal connections to better understand motivations and challenges then provide tools to cope and maintain healthy lifestyle changes.
Prescribed by your doctor, customized to you.
You don’t have to make large sacrifices to decrease weight, reduce pain, improve mobility, eliminate medications, and better prepare for and recover from surgery. Our lifestyle health coaching program focuses on improving daily habits—such as nutrition and physical activity—to build sustainable healthy practices that address the root causes of chronic pain and other diseases. We’re here to be your guide on this journey.
See David Plummer’s Results
Hear about David’s experience with the Prescribe FIT program.
Weight Loss of 40 pounds
A1C Reduction of 1.3%
Improvements in Energy & Movement
Additional scale and non-scale success stories
“I’m down 91 pounds!”
“I lost enough weight to qualify for a lung transplant.”
“I’d missed gardening so much. I’m so happy now!”
“I stopped drinking alcohol.”
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How Prescribe FIT Works for Patients
Together in partnership with your physician, we’ll get you on the Fast Track to Health™.
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Enroll in the Program
Your doctor will determine if you’re a candidate for Prescribe FIT. Once your doctor prescribes the virtual lifestyle coaching program, you will receive a link to schedule your first call on our website. Patients should commit to at least 3 months but it typically takes 1 year to fully transform lifestyles.
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Connect with Your Health Coach
Each patient is matched with a personal Health Coach Care Coordinator who is available for weekly 15-minute phone calls, in-app messaging, supportive advice and personalized recommendations.
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Establish Your Goals
Your health coach will work with you to learn your motivations and desired health outcomes then help you establish your own personal goals for the program. You will begin with small lifestyle tweaks then build habits to improve gradually over time.
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Conduct Daily Weigh-Ins
You will be provided a Prescribe FIT Bluetooth Smart Scale which pairs with your mobile phone or tablet to send daily body weight readings to your orthopedic provider. Patients are asked to weigh-in every morning and required to step on the scale at least 5x per week.
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Learn About Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Along with your weekly check-ins with your health coach, you will gain access to lifestyle health resources, healthy recipe substitutions, on-demand videos, and more to help you become an expert on your orthopedic wellness journey.
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Eat Healthier & Track Meals
With Prescribe FIT, there is no strict diet that you must follow to be successful in our program. Instead, we will assess your current eating habits and then teach you how to choose more nutritious food options, reduce frequency of eating, and decrease portion sizes. Meal tracking in-app is easy with barcode scanning that automatically records nutrient breakdowns of everything you’re eating.
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Increase Your Physical Activity
Your health coach will work with you to build a personalized at-home exercise routine that works for your unique needs. These activities are tailored to your abilities, preferences, and current activity level. Most of the exercises can be completed anywhere, at any time.
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Routinely Engage in Healthy Lifestyle Choices
As you progress through the program, you will begin to establish a new daily routine consisting of appropriate physical activity and healthy eating habits. Once you’re maintaining those lifestyle changes, your health coach will help you begin to incorporate additional changes like stress and sleep management advice, tips for moderating alcohol or tobacco use, and more.
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Track Your Progress
Over the next year, you will track your weight, pain, mobility, physical activity, nutrition, and water intake as you continue throughout the program. Your health coach and orthopedic provider will be able to monitor your progress as well and offer support.
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Get Back to the Life You Want
As your new routine becomes more consistent, you will begin to see real results that will last long-term. These can include not just weight loss, but reductions in pain and A1C as well as improvements in mobility, energy, and more. Your health coach will help you stay dedicated as you maintain your new lifestyle.
Stay on track with the PACE Mobile App
The Prescribe FIT mobile app, called PACE (Prescribe, Assess, Connect, & Engage), is exclusively for patients from our partner practices who’ve been prescribed our virtual lifestyle health program. The PACE mobile app allows you to:
Get to Know Our Health Coaches
Our health coach care coordinators are highly-qualified and dedicated individuals who will help you on every step of your journey to better health.
Enroll in Prescribe FIT
Have a prescription from your physician? The first step to a healthier you only takes a few minutes.
Patient FAQs
Often, there are NO out-of-pocket costs for patients participating in Prescribe FIT. Typically Medicare, Medicaid, and most commercial insurance carriers cover the service with little to zero financial responsibility to you. We’ll help you to determine coverage and benefits before enrolling.
No. The program is 100% virtual and available to you wherever you’re located.
Yes, of course! The team at Prescribe FIT is always there to help you every step of the way. Our technology was built with this in mind so it’s easy to use for anyone, anywhere, on any device. Our team will ensure your account is setup and that your device is paired with the Bluetooth scale. Once you’ve begun the program, your health coach care coordinators will guide you through the program.
Prescribe FIT is NOT a gimmicky diet fad. There is no specific diet a patient is encouraged to follow. Long-term success is built through general healthy eating, portion control, frequency of eating, and other personalized advice from health coach care coordinator.
Each patient will be prescribed a personalized exercise program based on their specific needs and capabilities. You do not need any sort of special equipment to get started.
Your prescription is for 12 months and we recommend staying in the program for the full 12 months to fully engrain the lifestyle change.