Your primary care physician is charged with monitoring your overall health. A conventional physician will encourage annual screenings, vaccinations and prescribe medications when needed. In addition to the standard care,…
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.
This guidebook is here to support all military caregivers no matter your relationship to the person you are caring for or when they served.
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.
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.
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.
If you treat hypertension with medication, lifestyle changes and complementary approaches, you can significantly reduce the risk of stroke, cardiovascular disease and other hypertension- related complications, including death.
This guidebook is based on scientific research and other caregiver's personal experiences. It walks you through the four areas of your life that are key to being at your best. These are your sense of self - who you are - your choices, your circle of support and your relationship with the outside world.
Incorporating integrative medicine into mainstream primary care practices enables physicians and other health care providers to: Deliver higher quality care Improve patient outcomes and satisfaction Lower costs Reduce burnout If…
Valentine’s Day has always been celebrated as the “most romantic day of the year", but for caregivers that invest more time in others than they do themselves, it's not only about…