NMR in Somerset has been honored as the award recipient of the Spirit of Somerset Award for its commitment to health and wellness in the community. We pride ourselves in educating our community and our patients on the different aspects of preventative healthcare, thus enabling a healthier, happier and more productive family, home and work life.
Natural Medicine & Rehabilitation is a leading wellness center that provides free health and safety programs, seminars and screenings to corporations, organizations, schools and local municipalities. Since 1986, our physicians have been creating unique programs that deliver the best information on health and wellness issues in an entertaining and informative manner. It is our firm belief that through education, one can truly begin to make positive changes that can last a lifetime.
Stress Tempering Lectures
Stress Management: Living with Stress in Today’s World
This enlightening presentation on stress, its effects, and techniques for tempering its toll on the body is unanimously well received. The mind-body connection between stress and bodily manifestations is explored for understanding and motivation to engage in stress tempering techniques so urgently need by most. Presentation discusses:
Stress Reduction Techniques Workshop: From Stress to Serenity
Learn and practice techniques to reduce the physical and emotional effects of stress. This half-hour session is a fun and comfortable way to feel refreshed, de-stressed and relaxed for a more healthful life.
Lectures on Health Issues
Arthritis: “Prevention, Preserving Function & Staying Strong for Life”
Arthritis is a chronic debilitating and painful condition of the joints affecting more and more Americans each year. It is one of the leading disabling painful conditions in our society with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on pharmacological treatment for the painful effects of the disease. The multifaceted approach Natural Medicine & Rehabilitation offers to those with this condition helps many preserve the function of their musculoskeletal system and stay strong well into their later years. Presentation discusses;
Chronic Health Conditions: Prevent, Manage and Gain Control with Lifestyle Based Strategies
Chronic diseases such as diabetes, autoimmune disease, cognitive decline syndromes,
Alzheimer’s, and many cancers, to only name a few, are almost always proceeded by a lengthy period
of declining function and health in one or more body systems. For all of us, such dysfunctions are the result of the life-long interactions with our environment, lifestyle, and our genetics. Functional medicine is utilized by our doctors to identify and ameliorate dysfunctions in the physiology and biochemistry of the human body as a primary method of improving patient health. Here at NMR extensive investigation utilizing diagnostic tools such as blood work and imaging, physical examination, health history, toxic exposure assessment, ability to manage stress, sleep patterns, and genetic predispositions.
Fatigue: Solutions for an Exhausted Society.
Fatigue is the most common complaint presented to primary health care providers. While noticeably impacting one’s physical state of being, fatigue often times negatively impacts a person’s general attitude and effectiveness in life. During this presentation, we will identify less understood yet common causes of fatigue. Participants will learn what robs them of energy and what can be done to improve energy and vitality. Topics include:
Functional Medicine
The functional medicine model looks to identify and address the root cause(s) and mechanisms of a person’s dysfunctions and disease rather than merely treating symptoms. This model of patient care requires extensive investigation utilizing diagnostic tools such as blood work, imaging, physical examination, health history, toxic exposure assessment, ability to manage stress, sleep patterns, and genetic predispositions. It is a process-oriented approach to healthcare. This healthcare model meets a deep need for optimizing individual health and raising the health of our communities.
Gastro-Intestinal Health
For those struggling with ongoing gastrointestinal symptoms such as pain, gas. bloating, reflux, constipation/diarrhea along with the ever-accompanying fatigue and are tired of the same old recommendations of antacids and antibiotics, lifestyle based, drug free solutions may be the exact solution for you. This presentation will cover: how and why GI symptoms occur, the mechanisms that cause these disorders, stress and gut health, gut health-brain connection, what is the microbiome, how does it affect our health, and how to improve it, improving digestion and elimination with lifestyle-based habits. And the elements of a good diagnostic workup for gut health will be discussed.
Headache: Solutions for an All Too Common Problem
Headaches are one of the most common complains that bring a person to a healthcare provider. Ninety percent of all headaches are either vascular headaches, tension type headaches or a combination of the two. The vast majority of headaches are a symptomatic manifestation of treatable or non-disabling disorders. This presentation discusses:
Immune Power: Heightening Your Defenses Naturally
Cold season, flu season, allergy season. A season for all! For most of us, the immune responses of your body are largely a product of lifestyle choices that are consistently made with both short and long-term effects. Learn how to not only boost but also optimize your body’s natural defenses with therapeutic lifestyle changes involving rest, nutrition, exercise and stress tempering activities. This presentation discusses:
Men’s Health: Healthy and Strong for Life
Men generally find themselves with age-related health concerns gradually appearing over time which can be quite troubling when one day they realize they have slowly been gaining weight, decreasing muscle mass, strength and energy, decreasing libido, insomnia, nervousness and depression. At NMR, counselling a patient on healthy and effective nutrition, fitness and lifestyle habits, is at the center of our approach. Complimentary strategies in helping to restore a man’s health can include, lab testing, identifying an individual’s need for targeted nutrient supplementation as well as hormone replacement by prescribing hormones therapeutically in order to restore balance to one’s body.
Osteoporosis: Strong Bones for Life (Onero)
This lecture offers a comprehensive look at all the lifestyle factors involved in bone health and offers solutions to each category of factors that impact bone metabolism. These factors are also implicated in our overall health and understanding them creates an opportunity for living stronger lives free of fractures way into senescence.
Back Pain Management Lectures
Back Safety & Injury Prevention: At Work and at Home
Recognize and prevent the most common work and home hazards to a safe back. Physicians involved with occupational and rehabilitative medicine recognize that as many as 8 out of 10 employees will develop some type of back related health problem involving work and/or home life. This fact holds true for both desk workers and physically oriented occupations. The information presented in this seminar will assist in the prevention of injuries that can affect one’s quality of life as well as save employers large amounts of money annually. This presentation discusses:
Discover Life Without Pain: Manage Pain Without the Dependence on Medication
Ongoing pain represents one of the biggest complaints in a doctor’s office, both the general physician as well as a host of different specialists. While medicine has a myriad of approaches and services for managing pain, they come with mixed results and for many, those approaches are plagued with adverse side effects, some being quite severe. At Natural Medicine and Rehabilitation (NMR), although we see the value in pharmaceutical pain management at times, we also offer numerous natural alternatives to pain management that are void of those unwanted adverse effects. Various therapeutic modalities play a role with a person’s pain management and rehabilitation and include:
Learn how NMR can integrate these various services to form a pain management and therapeutic rehabilitative plan that is right for you.
Low Back Pain: Various Prevalent Conditions and Solutions
This presentation looks to explain the most common low back conditions, their causes and possible solutions. Conditions such as degenerative disc disease (arthritis of the spine), spondylolisthesis, disc problems (bulges, herniations) and sciatica are explained with illustrations and x-ray/MRI examples. The value of therapeutic lifestyle changes in the areas of exercise, body mechanics and nutrition for these conditions is elaborated upon. This is truly for the person who has come to realize the inevitable need to take an active role in managing their low back problems.
Relieving Muscle Stress at the Workstation
This presentation/workshop is specifically geared for those with muscular stress and tension which typically accumulated from desk and/or computer work. The focus is on learning specific postural exercises that reduce muscle tension and minimize its progression into larger problems. Attendees will benefit by learning how to relax tight muscles right at their workstations in the form of ‘mini’ or ‘micro’ breaks. They will immediately start reducing the accumulated tension and muscular stress that plaques so many employees. Those with the following will benefit from attending;
Nutrition Lectures
Nutrition 101: Making Smart Food Choices for a Healthy Lifestyle
This presentation outlines sound nutritional concepts and action steps. No fad or extreme diet plans are given but rather “nutrition styles’ that are healthful and can be maintained for a lifetime are discussed. Consistently engaging in just some of the nutritional ideas outlined had created renewed health for many from past presentations. Presentation covers;
Foods That Fight Pain: Reduce Pain & Inflammation Through Proper Nutrition
Our predispositions and thresholds to pain are predicated by a number of factors, not least of which is our body chemistry. That same body chemistry is created, in large part, by the foods and fluids we ingest. This eye-opening presentation discusses the nutritional effects on our body’s chemistry as it relates to chronic pain and inflammation. Presentation discusses;
Smart Food Choices to Get the Results You Want
Clear up the confusion of what you should be eating for:
Fitness & Wellness Lectures
Living Stronger Longer
For those interested in expanding not only their lifespan but also their “health-span”, this presentation is for you. Learn about the Triad of Health and the life-style habits that support your natural ability to fight disease, heal and rebuild damaged tissue, and promote greater amounts of energy. The lifestyle choices you make today have a significant impact on your long-term health and prevention of chronic diseases- such as; arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. That impact can be a negative or a positive one. Which will you choose? Come to learn more and become motivated to choose the health promoting habits that optimize your health, energy and abilities for years to come.
Special Offerings
Acupuncture
Experience some of the benefits of Acupuncture without the needles! Adhesive dots are placed on the participant’s acupressure points on the ear. This stimulates the body to release pain-relieving chemicals and hormones. These chemical & hormones are the body’s natural painkillers! A personal consultation with our clinician will enable you to try this drug free option to relieve pain for people with chronic pain or suffering from: headaches, migraines, back, neck & joint pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, menstrual cramps, trigeminal neuralgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, sciatica & tennis elbows.
Body Stress
A unique health screening designed to help people recognize how postural stress may be affecting their health and overall stress burden. Within minutes, we will identify physical and postural imbalances that may be contributing to various health symptoms and complaints such as headaches, neck and back pain, and muscle tension. This intriguing screening measures the degree of physical stress that one’s posture is placing on the body. The results are interpreted and recommendations may be made on how one can start to improve his or her health and reduce stress immediately. All participants receive a personalized printout of their results. This screening creates a lot of excitement and addresses many concerns that people have about their health & physical well-being.
Hand Massage
Ease away your stress with a relaxing and therapeutic hand massage. Massage therapy aids in the relief of muscle tension and helps reduce physical and mental stress. It improves circulation and can help increase mobility and reduce stiffness in the fingers and hand.
Body Composition and Diet Analysis
Weight alone is not a good measure of one’s health, and with all the conflicting information about nutrition in the marketplace, most people are not eating as healthy as they think they are! This analysis will identify a person’s body composition in terms of lean muscle tissue versus percentage of body fat for a better understanding of one’s health status. Infrared technology determines overall body fat/lean tissue ratios. With a brief consultation:
Learn about your Body Composition and its impact on your overall health including conditions such as; cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke risk and many other inflammation driven conditions
Receive a personal review of you dietary and nutritional habits to get on the road to healthy eating
