Does my health insurance cover Health Coaching with Daly Balance or Physical Therapy with Dr Daly Physical Therapy?

I accept HSA and FSA payments as well as direct payments with cash, check, or credit card. I am currently out of network with all insurances, but can provide you with a superbill to submit to your insurance company. The benefit of paying directly for your health services is that you have more flexibility and control. I work directly for you instead of having a third party dictating what treatments will and will not be covered. This means the entire treatment session is focused on you and your needs. You will also be more invested in your progress which helps you get better faster with results that are important to you.

What are your hours for Physical Therapy and Health Coaching?

    Monday: 9:30am-6pm Pacific Time (12:30pm-9pm Eastern Time)

    Tuesday: 9:30am-7:30pm Pacific Time (12:30pm-10:30pm Eastern Time)

    Thursday: 9:30am-6:30pm Pacific Time (12:30pm-9:30pm Eastern Time)

    Friday 9:30am-6pm Pacific Time (12:30pm-9pm Eastern Time)

    Additional appointment times available by request

What is Health Coaching?

Health Coaching is the use of conversation, guidance, and evidence-based strategies to facilitate change in lifestyle and health behaviors (1,2). This helps you decrease health risks, better self-manage your health, and improve quality of life resulting in decreased healthcare costs and better health outcomes (1,2). A health coach can be thought of as an accountability partner with extensive health and wellness knowledge. I can help walk you through the difficulties of creating new health habits like starting an exercise program, managing stress, or getting better sleep.

Why Health Coaching?

Evidence-based healthcare includes the patient's values and beliefs as one of the three most important aspects in treatment (along with clinical expertise and research). Research shows that health coaching is effective in engaging individuals to address their health values and beliefs, resulting in improved health behavior change (3). For example, health coaching helped individuals with type 2 diabetes feel healthier and decreased their elevated HbA1c levels (4). Recent evidence also confirms there is a link between physical illness and stress (5). Although this is difficult to study directly, many stressful events have been followed by spikes in heart attacks and chronic job stress has been shown to increase coronary artery disease (6). Living with these conditions can further increase stress and this stress can then increase chronic symptoms.

References:

 1.  National Society of Health Coaches Mission Statement. https://www.nshcoa.com/pdf/NSHCPositionStatementFinal2015.pdf. Accessed Dec 02, 2018.

 2.  Wolever RQ, Simmons LA, Sforzo GA, et al. A Systematic Review of the Literature on Health and Wellness Coaching: Defining a Key Behavioral Intervention in Healthcare. Glob Adv Health Med. 2013;2(4):38-57.

 3.  Castro Sweet CM, Chiguluri V, Gumpina R, et al. Outcomes of a Digital Health Program With Human Coaching for Diabetes Risk Reduction in a Medicare Population. J Aging Health. 2017;30(5):692-710.

 4.  Wolever, R. Q., Dreusicke, M., Fikkan, J., Hawkins, T. V., Yeung, S., Wakefield, J., … Skinner, E. (2010). Integrative Health Coaching for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes. The Diabetes Educator, 36(4), 629–639. https://doi.org/10.1177/0145721710371523. Accessed January 19, 2019.

 5.  The Link Between Stress and Heart Disease. Cleveland Clinic. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/fear-anxiety-and-heart-disease/. Published August 14, 2012. Accessed December 14, 2018.

 6.  Stress and Heart Disease. The American Institute of Stress. https://www.stress.org/stress-and-heart-disease/. Accessed January 21, 2019.