- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Medical Weight Loss
- Primary CareYou may have a primary care physician (PCP) and specialists in the conventional medicine system. These individuals are an important part of your health care, and may have been caring for you during some difficult times. You may invite them to become part of your Odyssey Team, if you so desire.
- High Cholesterol
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Internal MedicineDr. Hayward, a board certified internist who practiced primary care internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1992-2009, brings a conventional medicine perspective to your work in Odyssey. Depending upon what you feel you need you may want her to review medical records for you or speak with your primary or specialty care physicians.
- GastroenterologySoon after I graduated from medical school in 1986, I had my first experience with a form of healing that was outside of the conventional medicine curriculum. My four-year-old son had been experiencing stomach problems, and had been through many painful tests and unpleasant medication regimens prescribed by his pediatrician and gastroenterology specialists. An attending physician in my residency program tested my son using kinesiology, introducing me to the concept that some substances and exposures can make the body weak and others can make it strong. This experience allowed us to adjust some aspects of my son's diet.
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Diabetes Care
- MRIIf you question this statement, ask yourself how an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine allows your doctor to look at the condition of your inner organs.
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Manual TherapyChiropractic emphasizes diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system. While the main chiropractic treatment technique involves manual therapy, treatment also includes exercises and health and lifestyle counseling.
- Heel SpursA year later, I was caring for an intensely driven executive at Polaroid Corporation, where I worked as a consultant in the medical department. He was a runner who managed his stress by putting many miles on his shoes daily. He developed a heel spur and eventually pain in his opposite hip from continuing to run. Despite treatments with medications and cortisone injections, his symptoms persisted and he became very frustrated with the care that the specialists and I were providing. One day he walked into my office without the limp that had developed and said, "I ought to sue you for malpractice for not telling me that acupuncture would help my symptoms." As soon as he left my office, I phoned the New England School of Acupuncture and made an appointment with the Dean, and spent an illuminating day with him and his patients in his office.