This clinic is based on the model of Integrative medicine, offering best practices for safe and effective bodywork.

Integrative medicine, as defined by NCCAM (U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine), combines conventional medical treatments and CAM alternative treatments for which there is some high-quality scientific evidence of their safety and effectiveness.

The term Integrative Medicine has been attributed to Dr Andrew Weil, but this phrase was actually coined by the Californian physician and author, Dr Elson Haas:

"Integrative medicine is the term being used for a new movement that is being driven by the desires of consumers but that is now getting the attention of many academic health centers. Importantly, integrative medicine is not synonymous with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It has a far larger meaning and mission in that it calls for restoration of the focus of medicine on health and healing and emphasizes the centrality of the patient-physician relationship. In addition to providing the best conventional care, integrative medicine focuses on preventive maintenance of health by paying attention to all relative components of lifestyle, including diet, exercise, stress management, and emotional well-being. It insists on patients being active participants in their health care as well as on physicians viewing patients as whole persons—minds, community members, and spiritual beings, as well as physical bodies. Finally, it asks physicians to serve as guides, role models, and mentors, as well as dispensers of therapeutic aids."

-Snyderman R, Weil AT (2002). "Integrative medicine: bringing medicine back to its roots". Arch. Intern. Med. 162 (4): 395–7.

For more information, please contact:

Mark L. Levine, B.A.(Hons), R.M.T. 

Pediatric & Family Craniosacral Therapy

310 Kerrybrook Drive

Richmond Hill, Ontario

L4C-3R1

905.780.2468

info@marklevine.ca

www.marklevine.ca

Mark Levine is clinical director of Mark L. Levine, B.A.(hons), R.M.T.,  Pediatric + Family Craniosacral Therapy, providing craniosacral and osteopathic manual therapy services to infants, children and adults for a wide variety of physical, emotional, neurological and trauma related concerns.