The 3 Keys to Avoiding Opioid Dependency
When I think about chronic pain, I think about my patient Margaret and her back pain. She wasn’t sure how it started – maybe she lifted her grandson wrong, or…
Just Breathe—Here are the Four Steps to Start Your Breathwork Practice
If you are looking to address symptoms related to your health concerns, sometimes all you need to do is breathe. Breathwork is a practice and/or therapeutic intervention that involves consciously exerting…
Healing Tool Series: The Patient Revolution
A website to help patients get better healthcare by talking to their doctors about their lives and goals. “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and…
How Our Government Can Improve Our Healthcare System
It’s clear that the US healthcare system needs changing. The costs are too high and the results too poor. The system also needs changing because our patients have changed. What…
Healing Tool Series: Personalized Care Planning for Medically Complex Patients in Primary Care
Journal article about using personalized care plan to improve care for medically complex, high-need patients. “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients use integrative…
The Proven Power of Alternative Medicine and its Ability to Heal
The healing process is understood and applied in many traditions and by wise physicians today but has been obscured by modern medicine’s obsession with external agents, such as pills, procedures,…
The One Aspect of Healing Our Healthcare System Gets Wrong
When I began practice as a young doctor, I thought that the treatments I gave to patients were the primary reason they got well. But after almost 40 years of…
Healing Tools Series: Managing Behavioral Health Issues in Primary Care: Six Five-Minute Tools
Practical five-minute strategies for family physicians to support patients with depression, anxiety and other behavioral health issues “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients…
Healing Tool Series: HeartMath® emWave® Training System
A stress management training system that monitors stress by measuring a person’s heart rate variability and provides biofeedback to increase this heart rate variability, which correlates with the relaxation response…
A Patient’s View: Athlete Scores Against Chronic Pain
Exercise, meditation and mindfulness, yoga and an anti-inflammatory diet lead to a nearly pain-free life Like many teenagers, John Slay wanted to be a professional athlete. As a baseball, basketball…