Ben Kliger & colleagues offer new strategies for integrating mind-body medicine into primary care

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A growing body of research supports the role for mind-body medicine (MBM), including mindfulness, hypnosis, and biofeedback techniques. These approaches offer safe and cost-saving treatment for common disorders such as pain, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, and mental health illnesses. Time and cost pressures on primary care physicians are driving a need to discover novel strategies to provide MBM to more patients. A recently published study in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
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