Alternative Medicine Outreach Program was founded in September of 2001 by Donna and Kerry Eide, to meet the needs of patients seeking to supplement traditional medical care with new alternatives. Unfortunately, uninformed choices can have ineffectual, and even detrimental consequences. This creates a gap in medical care that we seek to fill. Alternative Medicine Outreach Program addresses this need in our community by providing patients with educated options in their medical treatment that will enhance and complement conventional medical care.
Our quest is to form an alliance of progressive medical care practitioners and alternative care professionals who will join together in order to provide patients with realistic, safe, and progressive options for comprehensive medical care. Patients and practitioners are welcome to join us in our endeavor to offer discovery, teaching, and healing for the enhancement of our community's medical services.
Alternative is defined as "one of a number to choose from." In this instance it refers to non-allopathic medical treatment and practices. Though many of these practices have been used effectively since well before the conception of Allopathic Medicine, they are looked at as folk remedies or mysterious. For this reason many of these alternatives have been over looked, but are now being sought by larger segments of the population, opening a door way between traditional and alternative methods of treatment.
Alternative Medicine:
"The Federal Government Recognizes the viability of Alternative Medicine as acceptable and sometimes desirable, way of treating many ailments; both physical and mental. "
"Is attracting widespread attention. More than one-third of Americans used an unconventional therapy for serious medical conditions in the year 2000, according to a survey published in The New England Journal of Medicine."
"Major medical schools are introducing programs in Alternative Medicine into their curriculums."
"The National Institutes of Health opened an office of Alternative Medicine a few years ago to meet the demand for alternative approaches to health care."
"While each area of Alternative Medicine is different, all share a common approach. The healer or practitioner looks at all aspects of the patient's life -- not only the physical but also the social, psychological, and/or nutritional needs of the patient. In many cases the preferred methods of healing are those the patients can learn and work on to help with their own treatments, themselves."
