Traditional Approaches for Chronic Pain and What is Integrative Medicine
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Global Year focuses on a special aspect of pain to increase awareness within the pain community and beyond. The 2023 Global Year aims to raise awareness about integrative pain care and illustrate the knowns and unknowns of this important topic via different initiatives, including a fact sheet series and several webinars.
What is Integrative Medicine?
Speakers: Heather Tick, MD, Brett Stacey, MD, Jeffery Dusek, PhD
Traditional Approaches for Chronic Pain
Speakers: Tian Guihua, MD, Harish Bhakuni, MD, PhD, Pravit Akarasereenont, MD, PhD, Nantthasorn Zinboonyahgoon, MD
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Traditional Approaches for Chronic Pain
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Since prehistoric times, traditional medicine has been used for a variety of painful conditions around the world. With the rise of Western medicine, traditional interventions gradually lost their utility, however, forms of traditional medicine are still being practiced in different parts of the world at varying levels. The balanced application of traditional medicine and Western medicine may provide effective relief for select chronic pain conditions and is a part of integrative pain care (watch a previous 2023 Global Year webinar here).
Although local wisdom of traditional medicine is available in every culture in every region of the world, we focused on traditional medicine practices across Asia as examples of non-Western approaches. This webinar discussed the theory and systematic study that supports the efficacy and current context for the practice of traditional medicine in East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Participants included:
-- Tian Guihua, MD, West China School of Clinical Medicine, Sichuan University, China
-- Harish Bhakuni, MD, PhD, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
-- Pravit Akarasereenont, MD, PhD, Mahidol University, Thailand
-- Nantthasorn Zinboonyahgoon, MD, Mahidol University, Thailand (moderator)
What is Integrative Medicine?
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This IASP 2023 Global Year webinar - hosted on 10 October 2023 - explored the foundational question, "What is Integrative Medicine?"
Briefly, integrative medicine (IM) is the integration of all available and appropriate health-care strategies and disciplines for the patient’s benefit (1).
IM is person-centered and endorses the World Health Organizations’s definition of health as more than the absence of disease (2).
IM has a focus on health creation through our innate capacity to heal by prioritizing the primary determinants of health: what we eat, drink, think, feel and do.
This health promotion strategy empowers patients to assume control over their health and partner with their healthcare providers when disease diagnosis and treatment are necessary. Attention to healthy living has a positive impact on our epigenetics, our telomeres, body-wide inflammatory markers - and pain (3).
IM has been shown to save money, is low risk, and is acceptable to patients and many health care settings. How do we move an integrative strategy forward?
Participants included:
-- Heather Tick, MD, University of Washington, USA
-- Brett Stacey, MD, University of Washington, USA
-- Jeffery Dusek, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA
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