Integrative Rheumatology

✍ Scribed by Randy Horwitz, Daniel Muller

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 375
• Series: Weil Integrative Medicine Library
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Integrative Rheumatology offers a new and much-needed perspective in disease and symptom management, blending conventional medicine with alternative approaches not typically included in a Western medical practice. While conventional treatments can provide considerable symptomatic relief and can even slow the progression of many rheumatologic conditions, integrative treatment incorporating lifestyle interventions, mind-body approaches, and practices such as acupuncture and meditation into conventional medical therapies can improve quality of life, reduce medication dosages, and are generally better tolerated. In this book, researchers and clinicians highlight specific gaps in conventional rheumatologic care and examine how alternative approaches may be ideally suited to address these missed opportunities. Here, the authors introduce topics not typically addressed in conventional rheumatology texts, including nutritional therapies, exercise, herbal medicine, mind/body approaches, Ayurveda, and energy medicine. The contributors, all of whom have a background in academic medicine, share the approaches that they have found most effective in their own practices, basing their work on the best scientific evidence available. Ultimately, an understanding of complementary and alternative approaches to healing can help clinicians care for their patients using the best proven therapies to modify disease progress and relieve pain and disability.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Foreword I......Page 14
Foreword II......Page 16
Contributors......Page 20
1. The Use of CAM Therapies in Integrative Rheumatology......Page 26
2. Nutritional Interventions in Rheumatology......Page 29
3. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Inflammatory Processes and Rheumatoid Arthritis......Page 46
4. Physical Activity and Arthritis......Page 70
5. Herbal Medicine in Rheumatologic Disorders......Page 79
6. Dietary Supplements in Rheumatologic Disorders......Page 98
7. Manual Medicine in Rheumatologic Disorders......Page 116
8. Mind-Body Medicine in Rheumatology......Page 131
9. Sleep Disorders in Rheumatologic Conditions: An Integrative Approach......Page 146
10. Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Arthritis......Page 174
11. Energy Medicine and Rheumatologic Disorders......Page 186
12. Ayurveda and Rheumatologic Disorders......Page 200
13. Homeopathic Medicine and Rheumatologic Disorders......Page 215
14. Rheumatoid Arthritis......Page 231
15. Fibromyalgia Syndrome......Page 247
16. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus......Page 274
17. Osteoarthritis......Page 288
18. Integrative Rheumatology in the Pediatric Patient......Page 315
19. The Patient Perspective......Page 335
20. The Future of Rheumatology Is Integral......Page 356
A......Page 366
C......Page 367
E......Page 368
G......Page 369
I......Page 370
M......Page 371
O......Page 372
Q......Page 373
S......Page 374
Z......Page 375