{"id":91,"date":"2016-10-15T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T09:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=91"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:39:32","slug":"how-integrative-medicine-can-aid-breast-cancer-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"How Integrative Medicine Can Aid Breast Cancer Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>This practice, known as integrative medicine, has become an important way to keep traditional treatments from leaving patients with psychological and physical impairments. With a focus more on health and wellness rather than solely on treating disease, it can be helpful in restoring quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Daleela Dodge, a breast surgeon at Penn State Breast Center has repeatedly seen how social networks, diet, exercise, a strong support system, mindfulness and therapy through music, art and writing can be an important part of recovery and remission from breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Having a heart attack? Doctors know the exact protocol to follow to help you survive it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re not so good at is figuring out how to get you back on your feet once you have been debilitated,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re working against a lot of issues of how we are reimbursed for care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Integrative medicine gives patients more say in their health, allowing them to participate more actively in relieving symptoms, easing side effects of treatment and reducing stress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gantdaily.com\/2016\/10\/15\/the-medical-minute-how-integrative-medicine-can-aid-breast-cancer-recovery\/\">GantDaily<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This practice, known as integrative medicine, has become an important way to keep traditional treatments from leaving patients with psychological&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}