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Planet Fitness, Inc. is an American franchisor and operator of fitness centers based in Hampton, New Hampshire. [5] The company has around 2,400 clubs, [ 2 ] making it one of the largest fitness club franchises by number of members and locations.
A study published in the June 15, 2010 edition of Annals of Internal Medicine by a professor of health policy, Fitzhugh Mullan, ranked East Tennessee State University's James H. Quillen College of Medicine as the top school in the nation for producing primary care physicians and 12th among U.S. medical schools on a “social mission” scale. [2]
Tivity Health is an administrator of fitness and wellness services. [clarification needed] [3] Tivity Health is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee and has campuses in Franklin, Tennessee and Chandler, Arizona. [4] The company was founded in 1981 as American Healthways and rebranded to Tivity Health in 2017. [1]
Planet Fitness will raise the price of its “classic” membership from $10 a month to $15 for new members beginning in the summer. The “classic” membership gives people access to one location.
Fitness classes or a course at the local gym are available on prescription at a reduced rate to people who might benefit from them. It aims to make it easier for people to follow their doctors' advice about taking more exercise or losing weight. [3] Such preventative measures hope to lead to savings for the National Health Service. [4]
Cookeville is in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland region near the crossroads of I-40, SR 136, and US 70N-SR 24. [26] It is 79 miles east of Nashville and 101 miles west of Knoxville. [26] Three man-made lakes maintained by the Corps of Engineers are near Cookeville.
Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness and the treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise. Although most sports teams have employed team physicians for many years, it is only since the late 20th century that sports medicine emerged as a distinct field of health care.
In medical law and medical licensing, fitness to practise is a concept in the regulation of medicine regarding whether a health professional or social worker should be allowed to work. While fitness to practice can include matters of technical competence, including qualifications the concept also contains questions about the implications of the ...