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From Global Advances

Pain Awareness Month in September, presents an opportunity to highlight the latest therapies in Integrative Medicine for Chronic Pain Care. Integrative therapies as a first line of treatment offer proven, safe, nonpharmacologic options for millions of people living every day with chronic pain, though such therapies are not widely understood or utilized.

As a community of integrative medicine specialists, we are changing that with research, education and resources, including this Special Collection of research articles in Global Advances, journal of the Academic Consortium.

SPECIAL COLLECTION
INTEGRATIVE MEDINCE FOR CHRONIC PAIN CARE
Integrative East-West Medicine Intervention for Chronic Daily Headache: Case Report
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2164956120905817

Brain Activity After Auricular Point Acupressure in Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathy
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2164956120906092

Evaluation of One VA’s Biopsychosocial Approach to Chronic Pain and Opioid Safety
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2164956119838845

State Insurance Coverage for Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Low Back Pain
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2164956119855629

Analysis of State Insurance Coverage for Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Low Back Pain as Recommended by the American College of Physicians Guidelines - Robert Bonakdar, Dania Palanker, Megan M Sweeney, 2019 BackgroundIn 2017, the American College of Physicians (ACP) released guidelines encouraging nonpharmacologic treatment of chronic low back pain (LBP). These guidelines recommended utilization of tr...

Check out this article about the impact of health coaching on pain.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236734

Health and wellness coaching positively impacts individuals with chronic pain and pain-related interference

Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds The Brain's Gray Matter In 8 Weeks Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University. The study was led by a Harvard

A coaching colleague shared this fabulous research about the impact of attending theater on our hearts and the entrainment of the experience. Which explains why I absolutely love going to the theater!!

Read for yourself:

Audience members’ hearts beat together at the theatre New research led by the UCL Division of Psychological and Language Sciences (PaLS) has found that watching a live theatre performance can synchronize your heartbeat with other people in audience, regardless of if you know them or not.

This recently released article in the New York Times, written by a physician who was trained in health coaching, shares the power of health coaching to help patients actually make lifestyle changes.

As a Co-Director of the Integrative Health Coaching program, I was especially fascinated by his personal experience of "being humbled" while transforming his ways of being and communicating in the process, something that our students comment on all the time.

His article supports utilization of the Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (NBC-HWCs), as well as the newly approved CPT codes for individual and group health coaching that became effective January 1, 2020.

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Resolving to Be Coached:

Resolving to Be Coached The secret to sticking with your resolutions may be having a coach to help strategize and cheer you on.

Interesting new study about health coaching and weight loss in a primary care setting.

Primary Care–Based Health Coaching Intervention for Weight Loss in Overweight/Obese Adults: A 2-Year Experience Background: Obesity is a major contributor to medical comorbidity and places a large economic burden on health care. This study examined the effectiveness of primary care–integrated health coaching for weight loss in overweight/obese patients. ...

This article gave me great hope for the future of medicine.

Johns Hopkins trains medical residents to treat patients like individuals When patients and physicians talk less, medical care suffers. Johns Hopkins medical residents are being trained to take time to get to know patients as people.

Congratulations to our Alumni Shannon Yocum for her contribution to thought leadership in the field of health coaching!

Health Coaching Case Report: Optimizing Employee Health and Wellbeing in Organizations Abstract Health and wellbeing of employees has a direct correlation to organizational performance. It is essential that organizations and successful leaders prioritize the health and wellbeing of all employees – from the C-suite to entry level positions. As rates of stress, chronic illness, and un...

This made a lot of sense to me. I am happy to hear the work to find ways to strengthen the Integrative field and manage the research process.

Advances and Push Back on WHO Traditional and Complementary Medicine Initiatives | John Weeks, Integrator Fix this later

An interesting article. If more states would adopt this approach, I wonder what healthcare might look like.

How a State Advances Care for the Social Determinants of Health How Pennsylvania addresses social determinants of health, or whole-person health care, by bringing together managed care and social services organizations to expand access to vital resources.