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At your first visit, your physician will discuss your situation with you fully, and a personal treatment plan will be developed that addresses your condition, your symptoms, and your recovery. Our physicians provide treatment approaches that are designed specifically to meet each individual patient’s needs. In partnership with you, they will determine other complementary therapies and classes you may need or want in addition to your prescribed medical treatment. |
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Integrative Pain Management |
Integrative Therapies | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| All surgeries and many chronic conditions, including cancer, are accompanied by various degrees of pain and discomfort. Our physicians collaborate with a multidisciplinary staff to assess, evaluate, and manage your pain. Our unique, medically supervised and highly personalized pain management program addresses the behavioral, emotional, spiritual and physical dimensions of pain. A variety of pain management therapies including acupuncture, biofeedback, and therapeutic massage are incorporated in your care. In consultation with your surgeon and/or primary care physician, we help you relieve your symptoms with a complete program of acupuncture, exercise, nutrition, and medications. | Health is more than the absence of illness. It involves the maintenance of a sense of balance and harmony between your physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual self. When dealing with a cancer diagnosis, your disease and treatment may challenge and overwhelm you. Our program is designed to help you select the therapies that are right for you, to keep you grounded, and to help you maintain your balance while enhancing your sense of well being. Using integrative therapies such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, which includes Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine; Therapeutic Massage and others, we help to alleviate your stress, manage your symptoms, relieve your pain and reduce your anxiety, thus promoting a feeling of well being. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Acupuncture |
Chinese Herbal Medicine |
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| Acupuncture has been used in China for over 5000 years to treat patients, with documentation for over 2000 years. Acupuncture seeks to re balance various organ systems of the body by manipulating vital life forces called Qi. It has been proven effective in reducing the side effects of radiation, surgery and chemotherapy. In addition, it has been found beneficial in treating various pain symptoms, managing post-operative and chemotherapy related fatigue, nausea and vomiting and enhancing a sense of well being. Utilizing hair-thin needles carefully placed at specific points in the skin, acupuncture has become an increasingly common form of complementary medicine. | Chinese Herbal Medicine is the practice of prescribing biological, mineral and plant extracts which are formulated for each patient’s specific condition and stage of recovery. It is essential that only a licensed practitioner who has access to your medical records formulate your prescription. Chinese herbs have shown great success to alleviate side various side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, specifically anorexia, nausea, vomiting, fatigue and insomnia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Integrative Nutrition Consultation |
Massage Therapy (Chinese Tuina) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Just as many foods are known to increase the risk of ill health, many foods are known to improve health. Our natural herbs, in combination with nutritional counseling, provide a pathway to health in addition to our traditional Chinese therapies. Good nutrition strengthens the power of your immune system and controls the inflammation process that fosters tumor growth and invasion. We will work with you to develop a diet plan by utilizing cutting-edge, scientifically based strategies to keep you healthy. Medical research has shown high levels of antioxidants in your tissues lowers the level of oxidative damage. Scientists believe inflammation is at the root of many chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The carotenoids from fruits and vegetables are powerful antioxidants that form a part of the "anti-oxidant network" in your tissues. Scientists have shown the level of carotenoids are an excellent biomarker for level of your overall antioxidant network capacity. We will offer individual nutrition consulation that tailors to your care. |
Recent studies show that massage can improve circulation, enhance the quality of sleep and reduce stress, anxiety, tension and pain. Regular massage treatments can help you manage some of the issues related to a cancer diagnosis, the disease process and the side effects of cancer treatment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
