Various Care Option of Integrative Medicine from the Viewpoint of Patient-Oriented Medicine
Abstract
Authors and colleagues have managed Shikoku
Island division of Integrative Medicine Japan (IMJ) and continued various
activities. There were several important conferences in 2019 concerning
Integrative Medicine (IM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies held the 4th cancer rehabilitation seminar in Nagoya, as
cooperation with IMJ in May. There was annual congress of our Shikoku division
in October, with 14 various lectures such as music therapy, chiropractic,
rehabilitation, Hinohara-ism and so on. Annual IMJ congress was held at
Kagoshima in December with 1000 attendees and 100 presentations. The keynote
speech by Dr. Noriko Yoshida was impressive for remarkable projects, such as
national health project, long life & treasure child project, music exercise
therapy with traditional song and dance, centenarian research project, island
health thalasso-tourism, and psychotherapy. Author gave comments about
mindfulness originated from Budhism, Pythagoreanism from Pythagoras and
Hinohara-ism from famous Japanese physician Shigeaki Hinohara. These
philosophies have common aspect of patient-oriented medicine, which are crucial
element for IM and CAM.
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