Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine is the application of different culturally sensitive health care approaches that are optimized to a patient’s unique situation. This approach is based on the fundamental principle that the whole person, body, mind and spirit, must be addressed in order to achieve optimal health and wellness.
What is another word for integrative medicine?
A comprehensive, patient-centered, collaborative care model, integrative medicine integrates conventional medical treatments with traditional and complementary therapies. An integrative practitioner specializes in understanding a patient’s total wellness needs, and works with you to develop a customized plan of care. 417 INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE includes identifying and treating health concerns, such as pain and inflammation, while educating patients on how to prevent future illness with lifestyle changes and other integrative therapies.
While a growing number of people are using or have interest in integrative strategies, most do not have access to these practices because their insurance does not cover them or they do not know how to find them. More research is needed to understand the barriers to utilizing integrative strategies and how to overcome them.
Efforts at the clinical, research, and administrative levels are needed to reduce the “othering” of alternative/complementary healthcare approaches by promoting collaboration between various disciplines. Establishing interdisciplinary departments of integrative medicine at mainstream medical institutions may be one way to do this. Pragmatic trials have the potential to inform clinical decision making and bridge different streams of medicine. Increased pragmatism of trial design does not associate with higher risk of bias.
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417 Integrative Medicine
1335 E Republic Rd D, Springfield, MO 65804, United States
Phone: +14173633900