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became interested in vitamin and
mineral therapy and for three
years researched the topic, at-
tending conferences, talking to
experts, reading the medical jour-
nals. He determined that pa-
tients can benefit from both
modalities — traditional and
non-traditional medicine.
"There are chronic conditions
that simply don't respond to tra-
ditional medication but do re-
spond to alternative medications
and without side effects," Dr.
Nusbaum states. "I have patients
come to me with medical records
that show they've taken every
possible examination and test,
they're already on one or more
medications, and they've exper-
imented with a myriad of
over-the-counter as well as pre-
scriptive pain killers.
"It's frustrating to have pa-
tients with fibromyalgia or irri-
table bowel syndrome, arthritis
or migraine headaches and not
be able to help them get some re-
lief. Approaching the diagnosis
and treatment from a non-tradi-
tional perspective, such as test-
ing for food allergies or vitamin
deficiencies, often helps these pa-
tients.
"Using acupuncture on pa-
tients with carpel tunnel syn-
drome, for instance, provides
pain relief for some, eliminating
the need for surgery and the pos-
sibility of scar tissue forming.
And many menopausal women
who can't or don't want to be
placed on hormone replacements
find relief from symptoms such
as night sweats and hot flashes
by taking natural estrogen and
progesterone as opposed to the
synthetic medications.
`The point is that if a condition
is not responding to one type of
treatment then it's appropriate
to examine the possibility of us-
ing other treatments."
Mrs. Zelda Gechter of Farm-
ington Hills was diagnosed and
treated for Epstein-Barr syn-
drome for a number of years be-
fore seeing Dr. Nusbaum. Her
treatments weren't working well.
She was continually exhausted,
still having headaches and sinus
problems. Working with Dr. Nus-
baum, Mrs. Gechter was also di-
agnosed as having a vitamin and
mineral deficiency and was
treated with vitamin therapy to-
gether with natural hormones
such as DHEA.
"The difficulty was in making
the correct diagnosis because
my symptoms closely related
viral mononucleosis," says
Mrs. Gechter. "Today, I get few
headaches and my energy level
is well balanced with this regi-
men of vitamins."
Medical schools, government
and the American Medical Asso-
ciation (AMA) are moving, albeit
slowly, toward the notion that
there are acceptable non-tradi-
tional methods for diagnosing
and treating diseases. Wayne
State University Medical School,
for example, offers a course on al-
ternative medicine as an elective
for fourth-year medical students.
The AMA sponsors an in-
creasing number of conferences
and lectures on the topic.
In addition, the federal gov-
ernment established the Office
of Alternative Medicine (OAM)
in 1992 as part of the National
Institutes of Health. In recent
years, OAM has received large
grants for alternative medicine r'
research at Stanford, Texas-
Houston, California-Davis, Vir-
ginia and Minnesota universities.
According to the March/April
issue of the AMA's Archives of
Family Medicine, about half of
family practice patients surveyed
say they use some form of alter-
native medicine. However, only
half of these told their family -/
physician about the use. The -\
main reason given for using al-
ternative medicine alone or in
combination with care from a
family physician was the belief
that it would work.
Addressing these same possi-
bilities, some hospitals in met-
ropolitan Detroit, such as Henry
Ford and the University of Michi-
gan, provide names of family
practitioners who use alternative
therapies.
Karen Berdy of Bloomfield
Hills had been experiencing se-
vere back pain for several years.
She had been treated by ortho-
pedists, physical therapists and
even tried cortisone treatments
from a sports medicine special-
ist.
"The first cortisone treatment
brought relief for about six
months, the second treatment
brought some relief for a while,
and after the third treatment I
still was not able to go to work,"
recalls Mrs. Berdy. "I was a com-
plete skeptic, but I was desper-
ate and heard about the
Feldenkrais therapy [body
awareness techniques] and vis-
ited Dr. Richard Kushner. He
gave me a few exercises and
talked me through the way to
perform them.
"When I finished, I still had
pain but I did feel better and kept
doing the exercises. I was amazed
that I was able to find addition-
al relief It just seemed too sim-
ple. I now stand a different way,
learned how to get out of bed dif-
ferently, and whenever I feel a
twinge, I start with the exercis-
es. Feldenkrais therapy has be-
come part of my well being."
Dr. Kushner suffered with
back pain for years until he
learned the Feldenkrais method
after attending workshops on the
method.
"Feldenkrais is a way to teach
movement that works especially
well with people who have phys-
ical limitations such as chronic
pain or neurological problems