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Training the brain to improve mental function

Brain Integration Therapy helps ‘retrain’ the brain to reduce stress, reduce cyclical or scattered thinking, and improve mental function. The process involves stimulating neural connections, brain pathways, and utilization of both brain hemispheres to perform tasks in a more efficient manner.

Benefits

Brain Integration/neurofocus can help improve:

• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)

• Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Anxiety

• Hearing and comprehension problems

• Dyslexia

• Mental disorganization

• Poor memory

• Speech delays

• Motor coordination

Balancing energy to support healing

Energy therapy releases, clears and guides the energy fields within and around the body. Balancing this energy or life force can improve health and wellness.

A wide variety of practices fall in the category of energy therapy, including acupuncture, bioenergy healing, chakra work, craniosacral therapy, polarity therapy, Reiki, and shamanic healing.

Benefits

Energy therapy can accelerate recovery from injury, help heal emotional trauma, increase focus and self awareness, reduce pain, induce relaxation, reduce stress, and support the healing of chronic disorders.

Utilizing the healing power of plants

Plants, plant-based foods and herbal remedies play an important role in our holistic, integrative functional medicine approach at The Healing Garden.

Herbal medicine, sometimes called phytomedicine or botanical medicine, uses plants to support, treat and heal the body naturally. Herbal medicine may take the form of foods, teas, tinctures, poultices, and salves.

Many medicinal plants have been used for thousands of years by cultures around the world. Different herbalists may choose specific medicinal plants for their functional, chemical, energetic, ritual, or shamanic purposes.

Uses of herbal medicine

Herbal Medicine can aid in the treatment of these and many other conditions:

• Anxiety

• Arthritis

• Depression

• High blood pressure

• Hormonal imbalances

• Insomnia

• Migraines

• Nausea

• Poor blood circulation

• Skin problems

What to expect

Often medicinal herbs act more slowly than pharmaceuticals, yet they may be equally or more effective while also being more gentle on the body. As with any medicine, it’s important to monitor your body closely when you are using medicinal plants and to report anything unexpected to your herbalist or physician.

Herbal medicine at The Healing Gardens

Our physicians frequently incorporate herbal remedies in patient treatment plans. For example, we may recommend an herbal medicine, such as oil of oregano, as an alternative to some antibiotics.

We also have several licensed herbalists in our network of partner healthcare providers.

Our Medicinal Store

We carry many plant-based medicines and herbal remedies in The Healing Gardens Medicinal Store.

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Strengthening and opening the connection between mind, body and spirit

Hakomi therapy is a form of body-centered somatic psychotherapy. This method combines western psychology, systems theory and body-centered techniques with mindfulness and non-violence principles of eastern philosophy.

Hakomi is grounded in 7 principles:

• Mindfulness

• Non-violence

• Organicity

• Unity

• Body-mind holism

• Truth

• Mutability

Relaxing, activating and re-aligning the body

Therapeutic massage has been practiced around the world for over 5,000 years. It involves applying direct pressure to body tissues, joints and organs to improve the function of the muscular, nervous, circulatory, lymphatic and immune systems.

Massage therapy at The Healing Gardens

At The Healing Gardens we regularly incorporate massage therapy in treatment plans for physical, mental and energetic health issues. We use massage therapy to treat

• Sports injuries

• Stress, anxiety and depression

• Joint and muscle pain

• Structural alignment

• Circulation

• Immune and lymphatic system function

• Post-surgery rehabilitation

• Peripheral nervous system conditions

These and many other health conditions benefit from massage therapy because the manipulation of soft tissues and deep tissue affects so many systems in the body.

Our specialized massage therapists

We have several highly-skilled massage therapists in our network of care providers. Each has specialized expertise in massage therapy techniques including

• Relaxation massage

• Neuromuscular rehabilitation

• Prenatal massage

• Postpartum massage

• Deep tissue massage

• Swedish massage

• Myofascial release

• Trigger point release

• Thai Yoga massage

Freeing the body to move in alignment

At The Healing Gardens we have found that myofascial release therapy often helps solve persistent physical problems that cannot be resolved by physical therapy, chiropractic treatments or massage therapy alone.

How it works

Myofascial Release (MFR) is the gentle sustained stretching of the connective tissue of the body. Trauma, inflammatory processes, and/or surgical procedures can create myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain-sensitive structures such as muscles, organs, lymphatics, nerves, and the circulatory system.

These restrictions do not show up in many standard tests (X-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.). Myofascial Release (myo = muscle; fascia = connective tissue) addresses the “straight-jacket” of pressure that is causing the pain and restricted range of motion.

Myofascial release therapy relieves this pain by stretching and releasing the injured fascia so muscles may return to their proper position and move freely.

Conditions helped by myofascial release therapy

• Back and neck pain

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

• Dizziness

• Fibromyalgia

• Fibrositis

• Headache/Migraine

• Myofascial pain dysfunction

• Plantar fasciitis

• Post-polio symptoms

• Thoracic outlet syndrome

• TMJ

• Trigger points

• Whiplash

Optimizing nutrition for a lifetime of health

At The Healing Gardens, we use nutritional medicine as the forefront of our care.

Giving your body what it needs to heal

Nutrition is the essence and foundation of health. All bodily functions depend on vital energy and nutrients from healthy living foods. When we optimize nutrition we empower the body to heal itself.

Our nutrition therapy services

• Testing for nutritional deficiencies and imbalances

• Developing customized Nutritional diet plans

• Administering specialized treatments such as vitamin infusions

• Educating people about following a whole foods diet and avoiding processed foods

• Helping people learn to shop for Real Food, read food labels, prepare new foods or prepare foods differently

• Finding support for people to help with shopping and cooking, if necessary

• Providing online resources about nutrition therapy for specific health conditions

Correcting structural problems to empower healing

The body has an amazing ability to heal itself, and osteopathic medicine focuses on empowering that healing ability by improving musculoskeletal position and function. Like functional integrative medicine, osteopathic medicine takes a holistic healthcare approach, looking at how the different systems of the body can affect one another.

What is a doctor of osteopathy?

Osteopaths are licensed physicians with a specialized training in identifying and correcting musculoskeletal issues that may undermine the body’s natural ability to heal itself from injury and illness. They treat the body as a wholly integrated system.

Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT)

A form of non-invasive manual medicine, osteopathic manipulative treatment includes many hands-on techniques typically associated with physical therapy, chiropractic, massage and myofascial release treatment. These include joint manipulation, spinal alignment, stretching and deep tissue work.

Conditions that may benefit from osteopathic treatment

• Arthritis

• Asthma

• Back and neck pain

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

• Depression

• Fatigue

• Fibromyalgia

• Gastrointestinal disorders such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

• Headaches & migraines

• Menstrual pain

• Recovery after surgery

• Recurrent infection

• Sinusitis

• Spinal degeneration

• Sports injuries

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