Complementary Integrative Rehabilitation Medicine

Military and Veterans Affairs

Symposium

(614950) Application of Integrative Medicine in Managing Mild TBI Veterans

Presenter(s)

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  Wei Huang, MD, PhD

  Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
  Emory University, School of Medicine
  Decatur, Georgia

Those TBI veterans who suffer from chronic conditions, such as headaches, chronic pain, sleep difficulties, memory impairment, and PTSD have poor quality of life and consume a significant amount of health care resources. Their satisfaction rate of the conventional care model is low. In this population, an integrative medicine care model has been demonstrated to be feasible and successful. At this symposium, I would like to introduce the integrative medicine care model and some evidence based modalities used to treat TBI veterans with chronic conditions, followed by some case presentation.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze the complexity of veteran TBI population and the limitation of conventional medicine
• Describe integrative medicine care model and its key elements
• Discuss the advantages of integrative medicine care model over conventional medicine care model for this population
• Describe the importance of patient education in integrative medicine care model
• Select TBI patients with chronic conditions who would benefit from integrative treatment