簡介(Book Description from Barnes & Noble)：
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.
Customer Reviews from Amazon :
An excellent resource for clinicians on holistic and integrative approaches in rheumatology
A new source for solving the very common rheumatology problems faced by primary care docs like me and specialists in rheumatology is an excellent reference test, Integrative Rheumatology1, part of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library. It is expertly written/edited by Randy Horwitz, MD, PhD, head of clinical medicine at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and Daniel Muller, MD, PhD, a rheumatologist from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.I highly recommend acquiring a copy for you library as well as clinical decision making.
The book is organized into roughly three sections. The first six chapters cover various CAM/nutritional therapies. Chapters 7-13 cover alternative systems of care and modalities such a mind-body and manual medicine. The last chapters, 14-19, are disease specific and focus on integrative medicine approaches to common rheumatologic complaints.
Chapter 20, by Dan Mueller is "The Future of Rheumatology Is Integral." Mueller touches on six seed topics: active healing (patient involvement in their own healing process); integrative vs integral medicine (the effects of patients on us as doctors as well as ours on them, with a brief explication of Ken Wilber's "theory of everything"); wisdom and compassion; lenses (perspectives we use to see ourselves and our patients, replete with numerous consciousness-raising references); creativity(giving space to our creative self in the healing process); dropping attachment to outcomes (seeing the patient as whole and getting out of the way of their own process of healing). This short and impactful chapter sets the tone for the heart and soul of how integrative rheumatology might be different than conventional practice.
The strength of this book is in its concise, well-referenced chapters written by experts in their fields which include standard of care and integrative approaches. It broadens the scope of therapeutic interventions in rheumatology for primary care and specialty physicians without being overwhelming or speculative and is highly useful as a result.
Indeed, the only criticism I can have of this fine work is that it does less than it could have by its fairly conservative choices of recommendations. Perhaps by staying with well referenced and better evidenced therapies, it is most helpful and credible to the clinician new to integrative medicine than a broader ranging approach or in-depth would be. The nutritional/botanical/supplement approaches alone are worth the value of the book though the heart of it is book-ended by Chapters 1 and 20 that emphasize the truly holistic values embodied throughout.
書名Integrative rheumatology
著者 edited by Randy Horwitz, Daniel Muller
索書號 WE544/I5805/2011
出版者 Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780195311211 (hbk.)
出版年 2011
Customer Reviews from Amazon :
An excellent resource for clinicians on holistic and integrative approaches in rheumatology
A new source for solving the very common rheumatology problems faced by primary care docs like me and specialists in rheumatology is an excellent reference test, Integrative Rheumatology1, part of the Weil Integrative Medicine Library. It is expertly written/edited by Randy Horwitz, MD, PhD, head of clinical medicine at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and Daniel Muller, MD, PhD, a rheumatologist from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.I highly recommend acquiring a copy for you library as well as clinical decision making.
The book is organized into roughly three sections. The first six chapters cover various CAM/nutritional therapies. Chapters 7-13 cover alternative systems of care and modalities such a mind-body and manual medicine. The last chapters, 14-19, are disease specific and focus on integrative medicine approaches to common rheumatologic complaints.
Chapter 20, by Dan Mueller is "The Future of Rheumatology Is Integral." Mueller touches on six seed topics: active healing (patient involvement in their own healing process); integrative vs integral medicine (the effects of patients on us as doctors as well as ours on them, with a brief explication of Ken Wilber's "theory of everything"); wisdom and compassion; lenses (perspectives we use to see ourselves and our patients, replete with numerous consciousness-raising references); creativity(giving space to our creative self in the healing process); dropping attachment to outcomes (seeing the patient as whole and getting out of the way of their own process of healing). This short and impactful chapter sets the tone for the heart and soul of how integrative rheumatology might be different than conventional practice.
The strength of this book is in its concise, well-referenced chapters written by experts in their fields which include standard of care and integrative approaches. It broadens the scope of therapeutic interventions in rheumatology for primary care and specialty physicians without being overwhelming or speculative and is highly useful as a result.
Indeed, the only criticism I can have of this fine work is that it does less than it could have by its fairly conservative choices of recommendations. Perhaps by staying with well referenced and better evidenced therapies, it is most helpful and credible to the clinician new to integrative medicine than a broader ranging approach or in-depth would be. The nutritional/botanical/supplement approaches alone are worth the value of the book though the heart of it is book-ended by Chapters 1 and 20 that emphasize the truly holistic values embodied throughout.
書名Integrative rheumatology
著者 edited by Randy Horwitz, Daniel Muller
索書號 WE544/I5805/2011
出版者 Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780195311211 (hbk.)
出版年 2011
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