Doctors are now beginning to look elsewhere rather than their prescription pad for effective therapies for patients. Too long have they relied on their prescription of opioid painkillers and there has been a massive move in the USA and around the world to reduce the use of opioid-like medication for pain.
2017 has seen for the first time in the USA, recommendations for complementary medicine for pain in the FDA Education Blueprint for Health Care Providers Involved in the Management or Support of Patients with Pain (May 2017). It asks for health care providers to be familiar with such treatments so that they can be used as part of a multidisciplinary approach to pain management. This sounds sensible and what should have been done all along, but unfortunately, up to now, it is not what has been happening.
However, there is a sea of change occurring, and in the UK, one of the pioneers for this are two medical doctors organising the Integrative Health Convention 2018. It has the aim of integrating traditional medical medicine, and introducing numerous different conventional and complementary health treatments to its delegates and is open to the public, particularly those involved in traditional and complementary healthcare. It intends to have 36 different talks about different subjects ranging from Acupuncture to Ayurvedic Medicine, Massage to Physiotherapy, and Hypnosis to Yoga. The event will be held in Central London at the Park Plaza Victoria on both days of the weekend of the 13th and 14th of October 2018.
Tickets can be booked online at: www.IntegrativeHealthConvention.co.uk for £250 for the whole weekend.
