Healthcare in the United States is based primarily on a reactionary “disease management” philosophy. There is little discussion about health until a disease is present. You deserve more. You are entitled to the knowledge that can empower you to make well informed decisions that affect your well being. We want to give that knowledge to you.
By providing a diverse array of content focused on body, mind, social, and financial health, we aim to give you with the tools to determine what is best for your personal health.
OUR MISSION
The National Athletic Healthcare Association, LLC is an evidence based organization dedicated to improving the health and lives of all individuals and communities through exercise, nutrition, and healthy life patterns. We are an organization that provides information, education, collaboration, and social networking between those that provide health-based resources and those that consume it.
MECHANISM OF ACTION
The NAHA will work through a four-pillar system, providing guidance an deducation in each area:
Consumers: Anyone that wants or needs to learn more about health in any of its facets.
Business Partners: Anyone who wants to reach a vast audience and provide education/information about health, disease, exercise, nutrition, finances, activities, destinations, products, equipment, social support programs or contacts.
1. Change the conversation of health
2. Learn and Educate about health
3. Learn and Educate about Disease
4.Develop models of more effective health (pre–disease) management
5. Develop models of more effective chronic disease management
6. Learn and explore interesting and unique activities and health experiences
7. Understand cultural concepts of health and disease
8. Understand cultural methods of managing health and disease
9. Explore social variances and disparities surrounding health education, knowledge, access, and delivery
10. Develop models of bridging the gap of social disparities
11.Support existing research surrounding concepts of health
12.Develop original research protocols exploring health and disease
13.Develop models of current and long-term sustainable food sourcing
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I pledge to wake up each and every day and work harder, be smarter, and to live a healthier life. I will strive to make my life a continuous process improvement plan. I am committed to being physically, mentally, socially, and financially healthier. I know I am not perfect and never expect to be. I know the journey is not easy but will succeed anyway. I pledge to be a positive example for myself, my family, and my community. I pledge to be a stronger person today than yesterday and to inspire others to follow my lead. I pledge to make health a daily part of my life.
The Code of Methuselah
High in the mountains of the Inyo National Forest in the California White Mountains stands our symbol of strength and perseverance in the greatest conditions of adversity. Named for the biblical patriarch Methuselah, this Great Basin bristlecone pine has not only survived but thrived over 4,850 years in some of the harshest conditions known to become one of the world’s oldest living organisms.
Ever adapting survival strategies and evolving pathways to change are paramount for health and happiness in all of us. We will succeed regardless of the elements around us, learning to love who we are and celebrating our entire beauty, even if we don’t have leaves.
NAHA IS PROUD TO PARTNER WITH
As a chiropractor in my 20s, I saw daily patients come in with health -related pain, injury, and illness. I recognized early on there would never be a pill, supplement, or even an adjustment that would “fix” most of the health challenges that faced our society. As an athletically inclined individual, I would often tell patients to lose weight or to start exercising, never really giving them the tools to succeed. It was then I also realized there were no tools or a centralized place for people to go to for real information and education about health and disease.
I started the National Athletic Healthcare Association in the pre-internet days of the 1990s while I was in my 20s. I had a plan and passion but unfortunately did not have the skills or connections to put it together. Fast forward nearly 30 years , medical school, and a neurology residency later and it all seemed to come full circle. As a medical director of stroke, I recognized there were many people who simply didn’t understand what health was or how to achieve it. I also recognized as a physician, we were taught extensively about disease, but very little about actual health or how to learn more about it. I, too needed to learn more, wanted to be better personally for myself and family, and wanted to be a better physician with the ability to change lives.
I started the National Athletic Healthcare Association not because I know everything, but simply because I wanted to learn everything. I want to hear the stories, the experiences, the ideas, the opinions, and provide information and resources in a central place we can all go and teach each other. We are an organization with a passion for health, learning, and improving the lives of individuals and communities. We are an evidence -based group with a social mission that our members can rely on.
The NAHA was developed for every individual that needs or wants to learn more about health in any of its four domains, biological, psychological, social, or financial. Our goal is to be a global leader in the conversation of health and hope you will join us in leading this cause for generations to come. Future generations rely on the legacy we start today.
Today is the tomorrow we spoke about yesterday.
Take Our Pledge and Join our Movement. We cannot do this without you.
Shawn Wallery
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