Drs. James Padilla and Steven Ross, DC, DAAPM,FASBE have a combined practice experience of more than 45 years. They have worked with thousands of patients around the world to help them find the root cause of their health challenges and restore them to health utilizing Integrative Medicine. They founded the Institute for Integrative Medicine in 2009, when it became apparent to them that many of their patients were suffering from illness and disease that could have been prevented with early detection. The institute will hold its second Comprehensive Integrative Medicine Conference, Advances in Integrative Medicine - 2011, Jan. 26-28, 2011, at the Waldolf Astoria, Bonnet Creek Hilton, on Disney property in Orlando, Fla. Additional information about the conference can be found at www.theifim.com.
Fertility acupuncture sometimes gets presented as a narrow protocol: a handful of reproductive points applied uniformly across patients. What this case reinforced for me: The most powerful work happens when we read the whole picture. The hormone data, the constitutional tendency, the sleep, the digestion, and the menstrual pattern, so we can treat the environment the ovaries live inside.
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) affects more than 15% of the U.S. population but evades most practitioners’ radar. Just five years ago, it wasn’t even on my radar, despite already having 20 years of experience as a clinician at that time. The more I dug (similar to leaky gut and post-COVID syndrome), the more I found my patients were suffering from this disorder.
The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.