An Integrative Approach to Pain (Recordings Only)
More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain: more than those with heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. While opioids are powerful allies in the management of acute severe pain, the risks far outweigh the benefits long-term. There is a rich history and a growing body of modern science that demonstrate the efficacy and safety for many herbal therapies in addressing the many dimensions of pain. Anti-inflammatories that dial back inflammatory mediators; anti-spasmodics that relax smooth and skeletal muscles; adaptogens that help regulate the brain-adrenal-immune axis; sedatives that promote restorative sleep, bitters and digestive alternatives that enhance digestion and reduce intestinal permeability, topicals that directly relieve pain, and so much more.
This course is offered to Clinicians who want to deepen their expertise in crafting integrative treatment plans for the management of pain, with a special emphasis on addressing complex and chronic pain.
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A Note from Tieraona
I am a physician who originally trained as an herbalist, midwife, massage therapist, and martial artist. I have been exposed to and deeply influenced by the wisdom of the grandmothers, midwives, and indigenous peoples of these lands. I have learned to gather, prepare and use the healing plants, ease the body’s pain with massage, help women bring their babies into the world, and tend to the sick. I have been at the bedside as life enters this world, and also as it leaves. I’ve sat quietly during ceremonies, taking in their mystery and wonder, witnessing the power of prayer and belief. I’ve watched as healers called upon the ancestors for strength and direction, assisted surgeons as they removed bullets and tumors, and transplanted organs, witnessed people near death in the intensive care unit walk out well a short time later, and just about everything in between.
All of these experiences, from the profoundly spiritual to the most medically advanced, have shaped my approach toward health and healing, and eventually led me to the field of integrative medicine—a discipline that melds effective natural healing methods, lifestyle, and medically proven treatments. It allows clinicians a broader way to think about the restoration of health and the prevention and management of disease.
For 15 years as Fellowship Director for the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, I helped oversee the training of more than one thousand doctors and nurses in this common sense approach to health, healing and wholeness as Now I want to share my experience and knowledge with you, so that you feel comfortable with the “how, what, when and why” of using natural therapies.
If you want a deep dive into the world of natural and integrative medicine, I invite you to join me at Medicine Lodge Ranch.
For more information about me, see: www.DrLowDog.com/about.html