Goals: Combining Complementary and Alternative Medicine with Conventional Care

• To promote wellness and prevention through healthy living
• To increase awareness and understanding of alternative and complementary medicine
• To offer additional methods to aid prevention and healing
• To offer public and professional education and resource services

Services:

Individual Consultations Wellness and Prevention Classes

• 8 Weeks to Better Health
• Stress Management Clinic
• Healthy Cooking
• Health and Spirituality
• Creative Arts / Humor Alternative Therapy Classes
• Meditation
• Tai Chi
• Yoga
• Reflexology
• Healing Touch
• Herbology Alternative Clinics
• Therapeutic Massage
• Reflexology
• Acupuncture
• Reiki / Therapeutic Touch
• Biofeedback
• Imagery / Self-hypnosis
• Relaxation Mind-Body-Spirit Healing Retreats
• Breast Cancer
• Prostrate Cancer
• Chronic Pain Services to Healthcare Professionals
• Training
• Consultations
• Resources

Complementary and Alternative Therapies:

Acupuncture

• One of the most researched and documented alternative practices
• Originated in ancient China using insertion of hair-like needles and other means to stimulate flow of life force energy called "chi"
• Conditions treated include osteoarthritis, chemotherapy-induced nausea, asthma, back pain, menstrual pain, bladder instability, migraine, chronic pain and addictions

  Meditation

• A self-directed practice of calming the mind and body
• Studies show benefits including reduction of chronic pain, anxiety, high blood pressure, serum cholesterol levels, substance abuse, blood cortisol levels related to stress, post-traumatic stress as well as increases intelligence-related measures
• Used widely in programs for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, aids, arthritis and chronic pain

  Biofeedback

• Uses instruments to monitor and feed back to patients physiological information of which they are normally unaware. Patients learn to control bodily processes.
• Used to treat wide variety of conditions including stress, addictions, sleep disorders, epilepsy, respiratory problems, incontinence, partial paralysis, migraine, hypertension, gastrointestinal and vascular disorders, blood pressure and more

  Yoga

• Includes ethical precepts, dietary prescriptions, and physical exercise.
• Recent study has shown yoga practice to help reduce anxiety, blood pressure, respiratory rate, metabolism, cholesterol levels as well as help arthritis and smoking cessation

  Massage Therapy

• Scientific manipulation of the soft body tissues to return them to their normal state
• Reduces stress, pain - increases lymphatic drainage and general healing

  Herbology

• The World Health Organization estimates 80% of the world population presently uses herbal medicine
• Research supports positive results in a variety of chronic illnesses

  Tai Chi

• Part exercise, part marital art, part spiritual practice developed about 600 years ago in China
• Helps stress, depression, pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia
• Decreases risk of falling with Parkinson's disease and aging

  Reflexology

• Massage of points on feet and hands believed to correspond to organs or areas of the body
• May help relieve stress, improve circulation, relieve stiffness and reduce pain
• Also for PMS, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and Raynaud's phenomenon

  Healing Touch

• Reiki derived from ancient oriental practices
• Therapeutic Touch developed in the 1970's in the U.S.
• Increases function - decreases time for wound healing, reduces pain, stress and anxiety
• Involves little or no physical contact

  Relaxation

• Various methods useful in eliciting the body's relaxation response
• Useful for stress, pain, addictions, immune function and general well being

  Imagery

• Vividly imagining the desired outcome while in a relaxed state of mind and body with or without the aid of a practitioner
• Used to control pain, overcome phobias, treat addictions, improve immune function and physical performance

  Self-hypnosis

• A technique of altered consciousness to help focus attention and foster relaxation
• Useful to overcome addictions, reduce pain, and relieve irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia and arthritis

The staff and medical director work in conjunction with conventional medical treatments and practitioners.

Websites for Integrative Medicine

http://www.nccam.nih.gov

http://www.naturaldatabase.com

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm

DEPARTMENT OF INTEGRATIVE HEALTH
Lewes Professional Building
424 Savannah Road
Lewes, DE
645-3528