Integrative Medicine
The goals of integrative medicine are to partner with the patient, supporting wellness, supplementing clinical practice with traditional healing arts. Medicine in the US has grown up in a mode that treats disease. There is much less emphasis on wellness than on fixing a problem. Much traditional medicine, particularly from other cultures works to keep an individual well. Integrative medicine borrows from that tradition, and crafts plans around patient needs.
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- Q What is complementary medicine?
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Complementary medicine is any treatment that is outside the traditional medicine or practice of a person's primary health system. A treatment that is complementary in one culture may be traditional in another; for example, acupuncture, although... Full Answer
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- Q What is integrative medicine?
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, CardiologyMany health care providers embrace the concept of integrative medicine. In this video, Dr. Oz explains what it integrative medicine is, and why more conventional doctors should be open to it. Full Answer
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- Q What are some complementary and alternate healing therapies?
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, CardiologySome types of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies are: • Practitioner-based body manipulation -- acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, and osteopathic manipulation --•Sauna- Your great-grandmother might have... Full Answer
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- Q What are the various diseases that integrative medicine helps to cure?
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Dr. Sarah LoBisco, Integrative MedicineDue to the fact that Integrative Medicine focuses on addressing the whole person and finding the root cause of the disease, integrative medicine can be of benefit to a variety of different conditions, not limited to organ systems. Full Answer
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- Q What are the factors on which integrative medicine focuses?
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Dr. Robin Miller, Integrative MedicineIntegrative medicine focuses on the whole person. In doing so, conventional medicine and alternative and complimentary medicine are used to promote health and wellness. Full Answer
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- Q What are the benefits of integrative medicine?
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Dr. Robin Miller, Integrative MedicineIntegrative medicine is the practice of medicine that takes a holistic approach. Many times when patients have different specialists for different problems, the whole picture may not be obvious. Integrative medicine can pull it all together... Full Answer
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- Q Does only medicine play a role in treating a disease?
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Dr. Dean Ornish, Internal MedicineMedicine today tends to focus primarily on the physical and mechanistic: drugs and surgery, genes and germs, microbes and molecules. I am not aware of any other factor in medicine - not diet, not smoking; not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not... Full Answer
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- Q How can I gain access to complementary therapies?
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Many complementary therapies remain inaccessible to low-income people. Traditional methods may be affordable within specific ethnic communities but can be expensive when provided to, or by, outsiders to those communities. Complementary therapies are not... Full Answer
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- Q Why should I choose complementary health therapies?
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We choose such alternatives for many reasons, such as the belief that these therapies are gentler, safer, more effective, or less expensive than conventional medicine. (These assumptions may or may not be true for particular therapies.) Many women... Full Answer
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- Q What do complementary health practices include?
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Complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine is the use of treatments, such as homeopathic medicine, ayurveda, acupuncture, botanical dietary supplements, and massage, that are not necessarily considered part of "conventional" medicine. Such... Full Answer
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