Doctors write ‘park prescriptions’ to get patients moving
Here is your RX –take one of these daily!
Get Outside!
Dr. Conrad Sichler prescribed something the other day that his patient couldn’t get at the local pharmacy.
He told the middle-aged man, stressed and long overdue for a vacation, to go for a walk in the woods.
“To me, it was a nature prescription,” says Sichler, a family physician and psychotherapist with Sweet Medicine Integrative Health Centre in Burlington.
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