These services are provided through the Division's Behavioral Medicine Clinic and Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program. The Behavioral Medicine Clinic Outpatient services are offered for a wide variety of lifestyle behaviors which affect medical problems and diseases. Treatment may be focused on adjusting to a difficult diagnosis, problems related to the treatment regimen, managing pain, or coping with a chronic medical condition.
Services are available on referral from a physician.
Treatment is available on an individual basis for all conditions. Liaison relationships exist with cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary medicine, the breast clinic, and GYN-Oncology. The course offers intensive training in mindfulness meditation and yoga designed to promote a calm, fluid awareness and to improve an individual's capacity to cope in healthy ways with stress, chronic pain, illness, and pressures of daily living. Anyone with a chronic or acute medical condition under the care of a physician may apply for participation in the program. Common reasons for referral include high blood pressure, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, ulcers, sleep disturbance, muscle spasms, anxiety, cancer, chronic pain conditions, and heart disease.