1.
Understanding Approaches
for Pain Management and
Patient Care
Presented by: Dr. Gregory Burzynski

2.
There are many definitions of “integrative”
health care, but each definition involves
bringing conventional and complementary
approaches together in a coordinated way
in health care and pain management.

3.
Defined Terms
• If a non-mainstream practice is used together with
conventional medicine, it’s considered to be
“integrative.”
• If a non-mainstream practice is used in place of
conventional medicine, it’s considered to be
“alternative.”

4.
It is important to mention that for most people
who use non-mainstream approaches to
health care and pain management, they also
use them along with conventional treatments.

5.
Pain Management and
Health Care
Chronic pain is a common
problem among active-duty
military personnel and veterans.
The U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs, are sponsoring
research to see whether
integrative approaches can help.
The goal here is to help patients
feel and function better and
reduce their need for pain
medicines that can have serious
side effects.

6.
Patient and Physician
Relationships
• Healthcare professionals and professions help to
achieve optimal health and healing.
• Integrative health and medicine simply offers best
practices for optimal health and healing.
• Both doctors and patients continue to bond with
the philosophy of integrative medicine and its
“whole-person” approach which is designed to
treat the person, not just the disease itself.

7.
Integrative medicine depends on the
partnership between both the patient and
doctor where they agree on the common
goal to treat the mind, body, and spirit all at
the same time.

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