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For nearly 30 years, the American Institute of Alternative Medicine or aIAM (pronounced “I AM”) has trained and graduated compassionate experts in integrative health so they can share their health and healing talents within their communities. We’re transforming healthcare.
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What is complementary and alternative medicine?
What is complementary and alternative medicine?
We offer the best of both conventional and complementary medicine to promote optimal health, prevent and treat disease and meet each patient’s unique physical, emotional and spiritual health goals.
- What Is Integrative Medicine/Health?
- What Is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?
- What Is Functional Medicine?
- What Is Lifestyle Medicine?
- What Is Mind-Body Medicine?
- What Is Naturopathy?
- What Is Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine?
- What Is Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment?
- What Is Preventive Medicine?
Integrative medicine/health is the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, health care professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.
Complementary and alternative medicine refers to a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices and/or products that are not presently considered part of conventional medical care. Complementary approaches are used together with conventional medicine, while alternative approaches are used in place of conventional medicine.
Functional medicine determines how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual. It requires a detailed understanding of each patient’s genetic, biochemical and lifestyle factors and leverages that data to direct personalized treatment plans that lead to improved patient outcomes.
Lifestyle medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic intervention — including a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connection — as a primary modality, delivered by clinicians trained and certified in this sp...
Mind-body medicinefocuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body and behavior, and on the powerful ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual and behavioral factors can directly affect health.
Naturopathyis an alternative approach that emphasizes the healing power of nature with the use of nutrition, herbs, natural remedies and other natural products in order to fit the patient profile and the clinical problem with appropriate medical systems and techniques.
Osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) or neuromusculoskeletal medicine (NMM) is the specialty of medicine that emphasizes the incorporation of osteopathic manual diagnosis and osteopathic manipulative treatment into the evaluation and treatment of the nervous, muscular and skeletal systems in their relationships to other systems of the body as we...
Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is the therapeutic application of a set of hands-on techniques used by physicians to diagnose, treat and prevent illness or injury in which the practitioner moves a patient’s muscles and joints using manually guided forces that include stretching, gentle pressure and resistance.
Preventive medicine is the practice of promoting preventive health care to improve patient well-being. The goal is to ultimately prevent disease, disability and death.
At Kanodia MD, we focus on getting to the root cause of your health condition. We combine the best of science-based medicine with lifestyle change, nutrition, specialized lab testing, targeted supplementation, and stress management. LET'S GET STARTED.
The Integrative Family Medicine combines alternative medicine with evidence-based holistic medicine, we treat the whole person, focus on wellness and health.
The American Institute of Alternative Medicine (aIAM) is a private higher education institution. When we first opened our doors in 1990, we had a single-minded goal: to create more healers in the world.
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