Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine incorporates conventional western medical practices and treatments with complementary and alternative medicine treatments. Torrance Memorial’s Integrative Medicine Program offers a whole-person approach to your health and quality of life. Our program incorporates evidence-based complementary modalities with conventional medicine to help achieve optimal wellness.
A Holistic Approach to Patient Care
Torrance Memorial’s comprehensive methodology includes providers who specialize in Integrative Medicine. They collaborate with care team members to improve patient wellness and encourage healing. With a focus on your needs, our Integrative physicians are here to work with you and other doctors to provide a patient-centered, holistic approach.
Torrance Memorial is committed to providing the best of conventional medicine paired with evidence-based therapies to help treat disease, improve health and promote healing. From the medical clinicians to support staff, we are committed to Integrative Medicine techniques and modalities that demonstrate safety and effectiveness.
In 2023, Torrance Memorial joined over 75 of the world's most recognized academic medical centers and health systems as a new Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health member. For integrative medicine professionals and students, the Academic Consortium is the world's most comprehensive community for advancing the practice of whole healthcare, with leading expertise in research, clinical care, and education.
Conditions We Treat
Some common conditions that may benefit from integrative medicine include:
- Digestive issues
- Neurological disorders
- Pain management
- Pre- and post-operative care
- Stress, depression, anxiety or mental health issues
- Insomnia
- Chronic pain
- Fatigue
- Cancer
- Fibromyalgia
- Headaches and migraines
- Allergies
- Pregnancy
Outpatient Services We Offer
Whether you are seeking relief from a specific health issue or are simply interested in health promotion, Torrance Memorial offers many services to help people prevent, reverse and treat chronic conditions to restore your health.
HealthLinks Resource Center
HealthLinks is your centralized location for finding heath-related classes and education, products and more!
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Community Health Lectures
Attend our monthly community health education lecture series dedicated to educating and enhancing the lives of members of the South Bay communities.
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Outpatient Nutrition Services
Our nutrition team offers dynamic classes, one-on-one consultations with a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, healthy recipes and more!
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Exercise & Movement Classes
Our exercise classes are now virtual! Sign up today for our Zoom classes to help keep your body active and your mind happy.
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In Good Health Blog
Read helpful articles on Integrative Medicine including recipes, wellness, meditation and healthy habits.
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Inpatient Services We Offer
Integrative & Functional Nutrition
Integrative and functional nutrition goes beyond basic dietary guidelines by using a whole-system approach that looks at the root cause of chronic health issues. Collaboration and communication between the patient, clinical dietitian, and other healthcare providers involved in the patient’s care is critical. We work together as a team to find a whole-foods plan that will best meet the unique needs of each patient.
As members of your care team, the food we serve is a reflection of our integrative approach to help you achieve your health and wellness goals. It is our highest priority to provide nourishing meals to our patients that are both satisfying to the palette and healing to the body. Developed by our team of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists, our Executive Chef, and highly skilled cooks, menu options are carefully crafted to meet the dietary needs of our patients.
Our Conscious Cuisine Menu highlights a few of our plant-based, low carbohydrate recipes packed with antioxidants and nutrients that incorporate the healing properties of food. We believe clean ingredients are important in promoting health and longevity, which is why we use seasonal flavors, locally sourced ingredients, antibiotic-free meat and poultry, and wild-caught salmon in our recipes. As members of your care team, the food we serve is a reflection of our integrative approach to helping you heal and promote optimal wellness.
Please visit our Patient Meals and Room Service webpage for more details regarding our menu options.
Clinical Aromatherapy - Essential Oil Application
Clinical aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils. It is a patient-centered holistic approach for enhancing physical health, balance emotional and mental states, and support spiritual well-being.
Torrance Memorial is focused on integrative patient care and staff education providing the opportunity for integrative therapist to educate nursing staff on the administration of essential oils to complement therapeutic interventions that may help relieve symptoms.
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Yoga Therapy
- Gentle Movements
- Restorative Poses
- Breath Awareness
- Mindfulness
- Music Therapy (TV Channel)
Reiki Therapy
Reiki is a safe and natural method of energy therapy using life-force energy to treat the whole person, mind, body and spirit. It helps to return the person to balance functioning on every level - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and even social, regardless age or state of health. Reiki is non-invasive and can do no harm. This integrative therapy supports well-being and strengthens our own natural healing ability by providing balance and deep relaxation. Reiki also helps relieve side effects of certain medical treatments and promotes recovery.
Compassionate Care
Integrative Therapy emphasizes mindfulness as a ground for the experience of living and caring for life. Cultivating deepened qualities of attention, ethics, insight, compassion and resilience, as well as the implementation of meditation and reflective practice, to effectively accompany people and their families through the experience of illness and challenging times.
