Treating Facial Tics and Tourette’s Syndrome With Alternative Medicine

[ad_1] Tics may be due to nutritional deficiencies, genetic conditions, Tourette syndrome, immune system malfunction, allergies, or stress. Stress and anxiety can increase the frequency of facial tics. Emotional trauma can cause tics which can disappear when the emotional disorder is treated. Tics due to emotional trauma or stress can improve or disappear with hypnotherapy,…

Diagnosing Fibromyalgia: Tests Your Doctor Should Run in the Course of Your Treatment

[ad_1] Fibromyalgia is often missed or misdiagnosed for a number of reasons. There aren’t definitive blood tests or X-ray to diagnose Fibromyalgia and it shares symptoms with many other diseases and conditions. Diagnosing Fibromyalgia is a combination of taking the patient’s symptom history, a physical exam testing the Patient’s Trigger Points and exclusion. Today I’m…

Improving Healthcare Delivery by Setting Up an Integrative Family Medicine Practice

[ad_1] There are several definitions of the Integrative Medicine model which include: a) A healthcare model that combines treatments from Conventional healthcare and Alternative / Traditional Medicine for which there is some high-quality evidence of safety and effectiveness b) Focuses on person-centred (holistic care) and uses all appropriate therapeutic approaches c) Focuses on preventative maintenance…