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Call The Jewish News 354-5959 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