September is Pain Awareness Month, highlighting the most common reason patients visit their health care providers including integrative health (IH) providers, e.g., acupuncturist, chiropractor, massage therapist, naturopath. One of the more common conditions resulting...
September is National Yoga Month, highlighting one of the more popular ways for promoting physical and mental well-being. Yoga or other similar meditative movement practices are often recommended as part of a wholistic approach...
The CHP Group is happy to announce a new, on-going series relate to scientific research strategies for integrative healthcare providers. This series will be published occasionally to highlight research techniques and resources. PubMed is a...
As summer carries on into fall, people are still getting outside and it’s a good time to remind ourselves about skin cancer and prevention. According to the National Institute of Health’s National Cancer Institute...
September is Pain Awareness Month in the United States. The CHP Group will be sharing tools and resources this month related to pain awareness and pain management from the International Association for the Study...
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and most commonly occurs in the hands, knees, hips, and spine. According to the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH),...
A recent article from Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) titled, Laughter Leaves Me Lighter, provides some evidence for the benefits of laughter in coping with stress such as COVID-19 as well as some...
The American Journal of Managed Care published an August 1, 2019 retrospective cohort study of a combination of national data of the conventional medical system for Medicare. The combined data illustrate 84,679 older adults...
A systematic search by MEDLINE, PUBMED, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and SCO-PUS from inception to January 2019 produced interesting results in patients presenting to emergency departments for low back pain (LBP). All together 41,320 patients...