How to Use in Your Practice
The Difference — A Comprehensive Picture of Your Patient
With the SenseWear Armband, you now have a window into the lifestyle of your patients. Everyone is different. As the rise in obesity continues to be one of the fasting growing epidemics, physical activity and exercise are an important component in preventing the onset of serious medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes.
SenseWear enables automated monitoring of energy expenditure, activity and sleep efficiency, giving healthcare professionals a comprehensive tool to assess, motivate, and educate patients to help change behavior.
With the SenseWear Armband you can monitor your patients' activity and help set personalized short and long term goals to increase their physical activity. The PC-based SenseWear Software allows physicians to directly control the level of reporting detail for each patient. With a variety of custom views, physicians can take a high-level snapshot of activity, as well as identify key activity points and trends to help educate their patients and craft a patient behavior program.
How to Use in Your Practice
Assess
Patients wear the Armband to give you the ability to accurately and confidently assess their lifestyle patterns and sleep efficiency. What areas are they excelling and faltering in? Are they getting enough sleep or taking enough steps?
Interact
Upload data, view results, and create reports to share face-to-face with your patients. Set realistic goals for each individual. Not everyone likes the gym, so encourage others to walk to the dog an extra mile or take the stairs instead of the elevator. Analyze data with the SenseWear Software to view detailed minute-by-minute values and then export to Excel or .csv for further statistical analysis for research purposes.
Treat
Work with patients to set short term and long term goals. The optional, real-time Display offers immediate feedback to patients on when they have reached their daily goals. Monitor your patients' physical activity levels, sleep, and steps to see if they follow your recommendations. Check progress – the better patients feel, the more active they become.
