Just walk a bit more… and a bit more…
” I did just what you said Doctor, I just started walking a but more and kept going and I feel so much better for it. In fact, I’m up to five miles, two or three times a week now!” One of the best parts of my job is when my patients come back to me and say things like this.This patient is a superstar, when I first started encouraging her to keep active she had just been diagnosed with a long term condition which will limit her ability to exercise, and at the time she was unable to to manage to get to my consulting room from the car…
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