What is Integrative Medicine?
“Integrative health” incorporates the use of alternative approaches as a complement to mainstream health care. Definitions of “integrative” medicine can vary, but all involve bringing conventional and alternative approaches together in a coordinated way. More and more people are taking this approach but as the marriage of the two is still relatively new the terminology is still in flux, the research is still developing so, when considering it, keep an open mind and exercise care.
Alternative health care practices, otherwise known as non-mainstream approaches, often seem new but many are in fact far from it.
Continue reading “Integrative Approaches to Pain Management”
Pain often follows an injury, an injury that we can clearly identify, from the most benign, like a stubbed toe, to most severe, think of just about any claimed war injury and our mind, with all our exposure to today’s permissive preoccupation with graphic images, jumps to the most horrific of possibilities.
