Guided Imagery Pocket Guide
The pocket guide on guided imagery describes the evidence behind this mind-body practice and how to access it.
Understanding Your Hypertension and How to Treat It
Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against your arteries. There are two numbers used to determine your blood pressure: systolic, which measures the pressure your heart creates when…
How to Effectively Manage Your High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure (hypertension) is the largest preventable and treatable risk factor for chronic disease in the world. More than 85 million people (1 in 3 adults) in the United…
The Life-Changing Experience of Being a 3 a.m. Grandpa
I love 3 a.m. It was probably ingrained in me from my medical practice. Thirty years ago, during residency, I was on call every third night and got up multiple…
Women and Pain: Taking Control and Finding Relief
There’s a gender gap when it comes to pain. Women have more frequent, longer lasting, and severe pain than men. For instance, one national survey found that while about 16 percent of white men and 8 percent of black men reported severe pain, those numbers jumped to about 22 percent for white women and 11 percent for black women, respectively.
Guide to Nutrition for Chronic Pain: What you eat can make a difference
Learn how to navigate the health care system to find relief. Build your pain management team including traditional and complementary providers. Read your rights and responsibilities as a person with pain and how to make the most of your insurance coverage.
Nutritional Counseling Pocket Guide
Nutritional Counseling Pocket Guide gives providers and patients the information they need when advising patients to seek out nutritional counseling. Download the guide to see how nutrition can be incorporated into integrative patient care.
A Guide to Optimizing Treatment Through Integrative Health for People Living With Pain
Learn how to navigate the health care system to find relief. Build your pain management team including traditional and complementary providers. Read your rights and responsibilities as a person with pain and how to make the most of your insurance coverage.
Developing an Integrative Health Model: Who, What, and How
A guide to help physicians and other health care providers incorporate self-care and complementary approaches into their mainstream practice as they move toward person-centered, integrative health for improving patient outcomes and satisfaction while delivering a better quality of care.
Your Healing Journey: A Patient’s Guide to Integrative Breast Cancer Care
Lifestyle approaches such as social support, healthy eating and exercise and complementary approaches such as yoga, acupuncture and music therapy are part of integrative breast cancer care. These approaches can activate your ability to heal and help you feel better physically and emotionally.