Music Therapy Addresses Trauma At the time of this article, daughter Emily is in her Junior year at university studying Music Therapy. That might be interesting enough but Emily recently shared an insight about Music Therapy that escapes many. Music Therapy is not about the music but the relationship between client and therapist. Music Therapy addresses […]
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Music As Medicine The familiar phrase “music calms the savage beast” usually comes to mind when we think about music and health. Music is, of course, relaxing… for savage beasts or wound-tight humans. But there is more than just relaxation. There is music as medicine. Again, we do not want to get rid of conventional
The Triple Aim A 2008 article, The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost, offered a new model to fix the US “health care” system. The Triple Aim article recognized that US was spending more yet falling behind other nations: The recent “Scorecard” from the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System gives the U.S.
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Himalayan Salt Cave The Perry Family took a trip to Riga, Latvia a few years ago. Ostensibly it was for the World Choir Games in which daughter Emily was a participant (and her choir did win the Children’s category!). However, Dad had a plan to leverage the trip and check out a spa on the
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Author: Tim Perry A debate hosted by IQ2, The US Health Care System Is Terminally Broken, inspired this article. The debaters were all knowledgeable and experienced in the current US “health care” system, including CEOs of major hospital systems. However, I was simply amazed by how poorly the debate went even though everyone agreed “health care” is broken.
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The Science Behind Energy Medicine For so long now, whenever we used the term “energy medicine” there was unapologetic eye rolling. Sometimes the eye rolling was even followed by “you don’t believe that do you?”. It was almost as if people expected a claim that the walls were going to shake and ghostly moans would
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Holistic Health Is Theme For 2018 Interestingly, this article came from a business journal in South Africa. The author’s expectations are not that different from many leading thinkers in the US… holistic health is theme for 2018. We are happy to see a global embrace of more holistic approach to health! Read the entire article
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Duke Integrative Medicine Wheel of Health There are many models to depict health. Some are as a simple and powerful as the Chinese Yin Yang symbol that guides not only Traditional Chinese Medicine but various martial arts, philosophy and more. The Duke Integrative Medicine Wheel of Health is, in our humble opinion, a wonderful construct
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Lifestyle Over Annual Exam People are not machines. An annual checkup is not necessarily beneficial and may even be counter-productive for health. We need to move to a Lifestyle Over Annual Exam approach where providers engage people on Lifestyle, not a battery of costly tests that provide suspect value. Many physicians continue to perform annual
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Wellness Evidence Quite often we come across someone who is interested in a more holistic approach to health. Unfortunately, they hesitate because there is no wellness evidence. Without “evidence” so many therapeutic modalities are dismissed as placebo effect or even just “woo woo” (we’ve actually heard that term). Some systems like Traditional Chinese Medicine or
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