Clinical

• The Women's Digestive Health Center

  The clinical component of the CNS -- focuses on the diagnosis and management of chronic digestive disorders characterized by pain and discomfort such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), that primarily affect women. The center's features include patient care, medical education programs, and for patients who qualify, access to appropriate clinical trials investigating functional bowel disorders. These services are offered to all patients with functional bowel disorders as well as other medical conditions which commonly co-exist with IBS and/or occur commonly in women, including pelvic pain syndromes, IC, migraine headaches, and depression/anxiety.

• The Integrative Medicine Clinic
  (The Center for Neurovisceral Sciences & Women's Health Mission)

  Offers treatment approaches that are tailored to each individual patient. The Clinic reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focusing on the whole person - including mind and body - and guided by evidence makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches to achieve optimal health and healing. Through a network of established practitioners in the community, patients are offered an array of proven therapies, both conventional and alternative, such as acupuncture, mindfulness-based stress reduction training, nutritional and psychotherapeutic counseling, yoga, among others.

• UCLA Pediatric Pain Clinic

  The UCLA Pediatric Pain Clinic offers state-of-the-art medicine in combination with the regenerative power of complementary therapies to treat children suffering from chronic pain. Many of the children whom we see have complex problems that have not been helped adequately by the biomedical model of care. Our staff works as a team to develop an individualized approach for each child that involves the active participation of the child and family in finding solutions to the problem. The mind-body therapeutic process is designed to empower the child and family, thus fostering well-being, self-esteem, and improved quality of life.

• Individual Integrative Oncology Counseling by Integrative Medicine Physician

  Individual educational sessions (1.25 to 1.5 hours) for patients with cancer or individuals at risk for cancer. These sessions provide an opportunity to ask questions on nutrition, dietary supplements, strategies to decrease the likelihood of recurrence and enhance well-being. The goal is to assess each person individually taking into consideration their own goals and tailor a wellness plan that the person can implement. Selection of appropriate nutritional and dietary supplements or herbs as well as the development of strategies to manage specific symptoms are addressed along with educated advice on utilizing therapy offered by other CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) providers. Patients complete a comprehensive multi-dimensional assessment prior to evaluation incorporating information from medical history, nutrition, complementary medicine practices, mind/body strategies, spiritual practices and goals. (Fee for Service)

• Comprehensive Psychosocial Assessment by Health Psychologists and Clinical Social Workers

  For UCLA patients and their family members, interventions are provided which are oriented toward reducing the psychological impact of cancer as well as teaching mind-body techniques to facilitate coping and wellness. Psychologists and oncology social workers work with patients and family members both in the Center and in other UCLA oncology clinic environments to help assess needs, identify resources and provide concrete and psychological interventions. Referrals are often made to many of the support groups and workshops that are offered in the Center.

• Center for East-Western Medicine's Clinic Care

  Patients in the Center Clinic are examined and evaluated by both Western-trained medical doctors with extensive knowledge and experience in TCM and licensed acupuncturists who are also trained in western biomedicine and modern science. click for physician bio.

  Once at the Clinic, the patients receive a thorough initial evaluation that consists of:

  1. an assessment of adequacy of prior conventional work-up and treatment;
  2. a completer history of prior health, including work-related, psychosocial, traumatic, nutritional and other lifestyle factors;
  3. a conventional physical examination, supplemented by TCM diagnosis, including palpation of acupoint and tongue diagnosis.

  As part of the UCLA health system, patients can be referred, when it is more apprepriate, within UCLA health system for further diagnostic and therapeutic evaluation by expert clinicians.