Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine – An approach to healing
which focuses on the least invasive, least toxic, and least
costly methods to help facilitate health by integrating both
allopathic and complementary and alternative (CAM)
therapies. (Textbook of Integrative Medicine, David Rakel,
M.D. – 2003)
Integrative Specialties – not every Integrative
Medical Physician treats every condition
- Conditions that conventional treatments have failed
- Difficult-to-diagnose and Chronic Conditions
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- AIDS/Immune Failure
- Allergies - Food & Inhalant
- Anti-Aging Effects
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Autism/Developmental Disorders
- Autoimmune Disorders
- Body-Mind Medicine
- Candidiasis (Yeast) Disorder
- Cancer
- Chemical Sensitivity
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/CFIDs
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Dietary/Weight Counseling
- Digestive Disturbances
- Emergency Medicine
- Environmental Allergies
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Fibromyalgia
- Heart and Vascular Disease
- Heavy Metal Toxicity
- Hormone Balance/Replacement Therapy
- Hyperinsulinemia (Syndrome X)
- Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar)
- Infections, chronic
- Immune Dysfunction
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Liver Failure/Hepatitis
- Neurotransmitters and Chronic Health Problems
- Neurological Disorders
- Neurotoxins (PEA)
- Nutritional Deficiencies
- Osteoporosis
- Respiratory Problems
- Thyroid Disorders
- Yeast Overgrowth
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) – a broad
domain of resources that encompasses health systems,
modalities, and practices and their accompanying theories
and beliefs, other than those intrinsic to the dominant
health system of a particular society or culture in a given
historical period. CAM includes such resources perceived by
their users as associated with positive heath outcomes.
Boundaries within CAM and between the CAM domain and the
domain of the dominant system are not always sharp or fixed.
(Institute of Medicine – Committee on Complementary and
Alternative Medicine, Stuart Bondurant, M.D., chair – 2005).
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