Reality Sandwich

Daniel Pinchbeck, author of "2012: The Return of Queztlcoatl" has a consciousness website called Reality Sandwich and I have an article posted there on Medical Materialism. Check it out and leave a comment

http://www.realitysandwich.com/medical_materialism_exploring_allopathic_paradigm_through_shamanistic_practices

Article on Reality Sandwich

Daniel Pinchbeck's consciousness website Reality Sandwich has published one of my articles.

Check it out and make a comment

http://www.realitysandwich.com/medical_materialism_exploring_allopathic_paradigm_through_shamanistic_practices

Article on Reality Sandwich

Daniel Pinchbeck - author of Breaking Open the Head and 2012: The Return of Queztlcoatl has a consciousness studies website called Reality Sandwich and he was kind enough to publish one of my article on his website.

Check it out and make a comment.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/medical_materialism_exploring_allopathic_paradigm_through_shamanistic_practices

Biofeedback

I am sitting here in San Francisco learning about Biofeedback and its role in healthcare.  Part of this training is a continuation of my PhD training in Mind-Body Medicine at Saybrook Grduate and Research Center.

Biofeedback is a relatively new modality with regards to other medical treatments and it is a truly exciting field.  Biofeedback is a form of monitoring the energy of the skin with both galvanic skin reception and EMG combined with control of temperature of the body.  The thought is that as you have increased stress levels, the small capillaries and arterioles in your fingers constrict and become cold.  When the arterioles are relaxed and dilated then there is increase sweat from the small glands on the skin and skin temperature and sweating are also decreased.  Over time this type of controlled medicine or medical practice is easy to do, but requires work from the patient when they go home.

The BCIA or Biofeedback Institute of America is the legal body that credentials individuals to perform biofeedback.  As a physician in gynecologic practice, bringing in biofeedback as an adjunct to the care of our patients seems like an easy decision.  Patients with pelvic floor prolapse or urinary incontinence could benefit from this type of a program by giving them increased control of musculature prior and after surgical intervention.  If a woman is to have a mesh of the vagina for prolapse it makes sense for them to maximize their results or stay out of the operating room in the first place.

BCIA has a specific credentialing process for pelvic floor and I will be pursuing this to aid in my knowledge base in order to bring this to my patients.

A simple Biofeedback treatment consists of 45 - 50 minutes and is a means for patients to try an additional therapy prior to surgical intervention.  

Look for this therapy in our office over the next six months and be sure to give us some feedback.