OurLocalBusiness - Emerald Valley Wellness Clinic - 06/13/2005
By Robert Clack
Dr. Richard A. Hansen and his wife Kay Hansen started the Emerald Valley Wellness Clinic in January of 2001, located in the Emerald Valley Golf complex as a family practice and preventive medicine clinic. With an emphasis on prevention and lifestyle education they started the Live for Health 10-Day Wellness program in 2003 which is live-in wellness program for disease reversal, benefiting people with conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis and other conditions.
“We enjoy being able to help people in such a way that it also betters their lives. Through health education people can much more than by just handing them a prescription. We appreciate working in a small town like Creswell where we get to know so many people as friends.”
The Live For Health 10-Day Wellness Program
Both Dr. Hansen and Kay state, “Here at the Emerald Valley Wellness Center we believe that wellness is the science of restoring and maintaining a state of health – mentally, physically, socially and spiritually. We treat the whole person through lifestyle modification which produces renewed health, vigor, intellect and hope!”
Today’s most threatening health problems, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, substance abuse and stress related illnesses, are chronic degenerative diseases. Often these conditions are directly related to lifestyle. The good news is that with lifestyle changes they can often be improved.
The Live for Health program combines lifestyle education and quality medical care to help people make the changes necessary to improve their health. Our health guests really appreciate the quiet, comfortable, stress-free atmosphere and Christ-centered emphasis. Our live-in program is individualized but always includes the following elements for health recovery:
* M edical Evaluation and Diagnostic Testing
* T readmill Stress Test
* L aboratory Testing
* H ydrotherapy and Massage
* L ow-fat, heart healthy cooking
* H ealth and Nutrition Education Classes
* I ndividualized Exercise Program
* Stress Management
* AME on staff for flight physicals
Richard A. Hansen, M.D. - Bio
Dr. Hansen
"We treat the whole person"
Dr. Hansen is a graduate of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (1969) in California . He has over thirty years of experience in general medicine, preventive medicine, and surgery. Dr. Hansen serves as medical director for the Emerald Valley Wellness Center and Clinic. He has served as medical director for two other well-known Christian lifestyle centers in Maine and Georgia , where he developed methods of cardiac rehabilitation through diet and lifestyle. He has served as adjunct faculty member with the NEWSTART ® Reversing Diabetes seminars and has helped many people to reverse or improve their diabetes through lifestyle changes.
As a writer, Dr. Hansen founded the Journal of Health and Healing and served as associate editor for over twenty years. He writes a column, “Dr Hansen on Wellness” , for several area newspapers and authored Get Well at Home , a home health care manual now in its third edition. As a health educator, Dr. Hansen has traveled and lectured on health and wellness in many countries around the world.
By Robert Clack
Dr. Richard A. Hansen and his wife Kay Hansen started the Emerald Valley Wellness Clinic in January of 2001, located in the Emerald Valley Golf complex as a family practice and preventive medicine clinic. With an emphasis on prevention and lifestyle education they started the Live for Health 10-Day Wellness program in 2003 which is live-in wellness program for disease reversal, benefiting people with conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis and other conditions.
“We enjoy being able to help people in such a way that it also betters their lives. Through health education people can much more than by just handing them a prescription. We appreciate working in a small town like Creswell where we get to know so many people as friends.”
The Live For Health 10-Day Wellness Program
Both Dr. Hansen and Kay state, “Here at the Emerald Valley Wellness Center we believe that wellness is the science of restoring and maintaining a state of health – mentally, physically, socially and spiritually. We treat the whole person through lifestyle modification which produces renewed health, vigor, intellect and hope!”
Today’s most threatening health problems, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, substance abuse and stress related illnesses, are chronic degenerative diseases. Often these conditions are directly related to lifestyle. The good news is that with lifestyle changes they can often be improved.
The Live for Health program combines lifestyle education and quality medical care to help people make the changes necessary to improve their health. Our health guests really appreciate the quiet, comfortable, stress-free atmosphere and Christ-centered emphasis. Our live-in program is individualized but always includes the following elements for health recovery:
* M edical Evaluation and Diagnostic Testing
* T readmill Stress Test
* L aboratory Testing
* H ydrotherapy and Massage
* L ow-fat, heart healthy cooking
* H ealth and Nutrition Education Classes
* I ndividualized Exercise Program
* Stress Management
* AME on staff for flight physicals
Richard A. Hansen, M.D. - Bio
Dr. Hansen
"We treat the whole person"
Dr. Hansen is a graduate of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (1969) in California . He has over thirty years of experience in general medicine, preventive medicine, and surgery. Dr. Hansen serves as medical director for the Emerald Valley Wellness Center and Clinic. He has served as medical director for two other well-known Christian lifestyle centers in Maine and Georgia , where he developed methods of cardiac rehabilitation through diet and lifestyle. He has served as adjunct faculty member with the NEWSTART ® Reversing Diabetes seminars and has helped many people to reverse or improve their diabetes through lifestyle changes.
As a writer, Dr. Hansen founded the Journal of Health and Healing and served as associate editor for over twenty years. He writes a column, “Dr Hansen on Wellness” , for several area newspapers and authored Get Well at Home , a home health care manual now in its third edition. As a health educator, Dr. Hansen has traveled and lectured on health and wellness in many countries around the world.