The OSU Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM) offers services and education in each domain of complementary medicine.
This list of services is organized into the five different domains defined by the National Institutes of Health plus traditional medicine. The Center's mission is to provide rigorously researched evidence-based resources, enabling patients and their primary care physicians to make informed decisions on how to fit them into traditional care.
More information about complementary medicine can be found at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Web site.
1. INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Integrative Family Medicine
Integrative Internal Medicine
Integrative Pediatrics
Integrative Medicine Consult
2. WHOLE MEDICAL SYSTEMS
At the CIM, our focus is on modalities that complement traditional Western medicine.
Whole medical systems involve complete systems of theory and practice that have evolved over time across the world to address human health and wellness. Major Eastern whole medical systems, for example, include traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ayurvedic medicine, one of India's traditional systems of medicine.
Acupuncture (Traditional Chinese Medicine)
Ayurveda
3. BIOLOGICALLY-BASED THERAPIES
Biologically-based therapies focus on use of biological agents such as vitamins, minerals and other dietary supplements.
Biological services also include direction for patients on their nutrition and dietary needs of the whole patient that are the basis of human health.
Dietary guidance
Herbal counseling
Nutritional Counselling
Nutrigenomics
Ortho Molecular Therapy
4. MANIPULATIVE AND BODY-BASED PRACTICES
Manipulative and body-based practices focus primarily on assessing and correcting imbalances in structures and systems of the body, including the bones and joints, the soft tissues, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems.
Rehabilitation Chiropractic
Neuromusclar
Myofascial Therapies
Reflexology
CranioSacral Therapy
Sports Massage
Massage Therapy
5. ENERGY MEDICINE
Energy medicine is a domain in CAM that deals with energy fields of two types:
- Veritable, which can be measured. They include energies such as sound and electromagnetic forces, including visible light, magnetism, monochromatic radiation (such as laser beams), and rays from other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. They involve the use of specific, measurable wavelengths and frequencies to treat patients.
- Putative, which have yet to be measured, also called biofields. This vital energy or life force is known under different names in different cultures, such as qi in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), or doshas in Ayurvedic medicine. Practitioners of energy medicine believe that illness results from disturbances of these subtle energies (the biofield).
Reiki
Polanity Therapy
Tai Chi
6. MIND-BODY MEDICINE
Mind-body medicine focuses on the interactions between the mind and body and the ways in which manifestations of emotional, mental, social, spiritual and behavioral factors can directly affect health.
Yoga, Pranayama (breathing exercise), spontaneous meditation and other movement therapies, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral therapies, and group support are all examples of interventions that can promote human health.
Counseling, by referral
Hypnotherapy, by referral
Guided Imagery, by referral
Spontaneous Meditation and Pranayama