The Behavioral Medicine Center is located in UVA Hospital West, Barringer IV, room 4472. The Behavioral Medicine Center operates several clinics specializing in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of a variety of medical problems that are either caused or aggravated by life style or stress. Various exercises and physiological feedback teaches awareness and control of body functions to eliminate distressing symptoms. Computerized monitors provide information about body responses such as muscle tension and breathing pattern, which most people are unaware they can control. Therapy usually involves 4-12 individual weekly sessions.
Emphasis is on establishing personal control over physical symptoms.
These evaluations are specifically tailored to different types of medical procedures and include assessment of psychosocial status, psychological preparedness, relevant behavioral patterns, and social support systems. In those situations where psychotherapy is needed, we will provide those services or assist in referral. Children and adults frequently get constipated for a variety of reasons. It can even lead to soiling, if the patient gets too impacted. By learning how to modify bowel habits, and the judicious use of laxatives and enemas, long standing constipation and soiling problems can be reversed.