“Pain is our harm alarm and it does a really good job of getting our attention,” said Beth Darnall, a clinical associate professor at Stanford Health Care’s division of pain medicine. She says:
Virtual Reality is a psychological tool, like meditation, that can “calm the nervous system, and that dampens the pain processing.”
Read Pilot Studies from […]
Medical Students at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine learn about the science and methodology behind the transcendental meditation (TM) technique in the first TM elective course offered at a major medical school in the United States. It is called “Physician Wellness through Transcendental Meditation”
Read Chicago Medicine January 2016 articles:Physician Heal Thyself: Strict School of Medicine Students Give New Meaning to the […]
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In the last two-three years, articles touting the benefits of meditation are abundant in the news media, but labeled as “alternative medicine.” Dr. Romie Mushtaq, traditionally trained neurologist with additional board certification in integrative medicine and featured inTED talk, “The Powerful Secret of Your Breath”, argues that meditation should not be considered […]
New proposed strategy recently posted in the Hospitals and Health Networks (H&HN) as an article titled A Holistic Approach to Health Care Can Lower Costs and Improve Quality, authored by Alan Spiro, MD and the director of the Duke Leadership Program in Integrative Healthcare, Adam Perlman, MD, MPH
They suggest that alongside of two prevailing models of care – “biomedical” and “integrative” – a […]
Den plantebaserede kost/The Plant Based Diet
Thoughts on the environment, ethics and health has recently aroused great interest and curiosity about vegan and plant based diet. While more and more Danes switch meatballs out with bean patties, others ask whether it is healthy to eat only plants. Do vegans get enough protein, is cow’s milk […]
NIM TV interviews Mikkel Anthonisen, MD Founder of Sailing Sclerosis Foundation and Iben Skyd, MS Crew Oceans of Hope. An intimate, inside-look and discussion with a doctor and a patient who work and live with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
The Sailing Sclerosis project, Oceans of Hope (OOH), helps to change the perception of multiple sclerosis by […]
A 2015 study done by Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)’s Institute for Technology Assessment and the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) reveals how mind-body medicine could cut health care costs:
Evoking the relaxation response or a physiologic state of deep rest, helps alleviate stress and anxiety, while also affecting heart rate and blood pressure […] The study also found that practitioners primarily […]
IKEA Way to Better Healthcare, a powerful post-humous video keynote for ECIM 2015 Global Summit in Greater Copenhagen presented by patient expert, Michael Hay, former Creative Director for IKEA Global Communications, who delivered important directives to city mayors and doctors:
In 30 years, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, so in the future, city mayors […]
Why do people use certain complementary approaches?
Wellness.
People who take natural product supplements or who practice yoga are more likely to do so for wellness than for treating a health condition.
From NCCIH Director’s Page
Josephine P. Briggs, M.D.
November 4, 2015
I find it especially interesting that people who use a variety of complementary health approaches reported better health […]
Many people have witnessed a death that seemed to be exacerbated by modern medicine: a drug that came with side effects but never seemed to halt the disease’s progress, the surgery that was totally unnecessary and might even have sped up someone’s death. Doctors have seen that happen even more often.
“Patients generally are not experts in oncology, […]
