Services / Procedures 

The OSU Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM) offers services and education in each domain of complementary medicine.

This list of services is organized into the five different domains defined by the National Institutes of Health plus traditional medicine. The Center’s mission is to provide rigorously researched evidence-based resources, enabling patients and their primary care physicians to make informed decisions on how to fit them into traditional care.

More information about complementary medicine can be found at the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Web site.

1. ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL SYSTEMS
At the CIM, our focus is on modalities that complement traditional Western medicine.
Whole medical systems involve complete systems of theory and practice that have evolved over time across the world to address human health and wellness. Major Eastern whole medical systems, for example, include traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ayurvedic medicine, one of India's traditional systems of medicine.

Acupuncture (Traditional Chinese Medicine)
Ayurveda

2. MIND-BODY INTERVENTIONS
Mind-body medicine focuses on the interactions between the mind and body and the ways in which manifestations of emotional, mental, social, spiritual and behavioral factors can directly affect health.

Relaxation, hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation, yoga and other movement therapies, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral therapies, and group support are all examples of interventions that can promote human health.

Art Therapy
Counseling
Guided Imagery
Hypnotherapy
Meditation
Psychotherapy
Yoga

3. BIOLOGICALLY-BASED THERAPIES
Biologically-based therapies focus on use of biological agents such as vitamins, minerals and other dietary supplements.

Biological services also include direction for patients on their nutrition and dietary needs of the whole patient that are the basis of human health.

Dietitian Services
Herbal Services
Nutraceutical Prescription
Nutritional Counseling
Ortho Molecular Therapy

4. MANIPULATIVE AND BODY-BASED PRACTICES
Manipulative and body-based practices focus primarily on assessing and correcting imbalances in structures and systems of the body, including the bones and joints, the soft tissues, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems.

Chiropractic
Swedish Massage
-Neuromuscular Massage
-Sports Massage
-Stone Massage
-CranioSacral Therapy
-Myofascial Therapies
Reflexology
Acupressure

5. ENERGY MEDICINE
Energy medicine is a domain in CAM that deals with energy fields of two types:
- Veritable, which can be measured. They include energies such as sound and electromagnetic forces, including visible light, magnetism, monochromatic radiation (such as laser beams), and rays from other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. They involve the use of specific, measurable wavelengths and frequencies to treat patients.

- Putative, which have yet to be measured, also called biofields. This vital energy or life force is known under different names in different cultures, such as qi in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), or doshas in Ayurvedic medicine. Practitioners of energy medicine believe that illness results from disturbances of these subtle energies (the biofield).

Reiki
-Therapeutic/Healing Touch
Feng Shui Consultation

6. TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
The CIM includes traditional Western practices, such as family medicine, which work collaboratively with complementary medical practices outlined above. It is important that CIM facilitates the incorporation of complementary medicine into the patient’s overall health plan.

Integrative Family Medicine