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It’s time to put some spring into your step. If traditional methods of exercise are proving to be lackluster, and visits to your doctor leave you questioning treatments and still feeling generally unwell, then it’s time to go against the grain. Exploring what integrative fitness and medicine can do for you is a positive step toward life balance and overall om. These practices take a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to well being, complementing traditional medicine and exercise with alternative approaches such as homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, and herbalism, as well as addressing emotional and spiritual needs.

What’s so Integrative About Medicine?
Many Americans have never heard of integrative medicine, but this holistic movement has left its imprint on many of the nation’s hospitals, universities, and medical schools. Integrative medicine got a boost of greater public awareness (and funding) after a landmark 1993 study that showed one in three Americans had used an alternative therapy, often under the medical radar. In the past decade, integrative-medicine centers have opened across the country, and the spark is greatly due to what has been referred to as a deep dissatisfaction with the healthcare system in the United States.

“People want choices when it comes to medicine,” notes Dr. James Prego, of the Advantage Wellness Center, in East Islip.

“I can help patients in so many various ways, and have learned healing using plants, diet, lifestyle, nutrition, vitamins, and counseling as well as traditional medicines.” Prego is a doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, a system for improved health that avoids drugs and surgery. “Integrative medicine is really the future of medicine,” he continues. “People need to have access to all options and they deserve the right to be given all the available information and to make informed choices as to what their care will be.”

How Does Integrative Fitness Weigh In?
Once your health is in check, consider taking a break from the humdrum gym and engage in integrative fitness. By definition, integrative fitness is a set of physical, mental, and emotional practices to “integrate” a healthy mind into a healthy body. Integrative Fitness LLC, in Rockville Centre, takes a whole-body, multi-dimensional approach to health and fitness. Their system incorporates all aspects of well-being in order to heal, prolong, and enhance life. Dianne Sykes Scope, MS NSCA CPT, is a clinical exercise physiologist who owns and runs Integrative Fitness with her husband, Rawle Scope NASM CPT. The sky’s the limit at this Zenlike facility; services include personal training, nutritional counseling, lifestyle consulting, yoga, martial arts, bariatric weight-loss programs, secondary prevention (post-rehab and post-orthopedic surgery programs), senior classes, teen training, and strength and conditioning for athletes.

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