Integrative Medicine and Arts Program | Tampa General Hospital

Integrative Medicine and Arts Program

Integrative Medicine is an approach to health care that encompasses the whole person: the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. As your healthcare partner, Tampa General Hospital’s Integrative Medicine Program recognizes each person’s individuality and focuses on supporting whole-person health and well-being.

Integrative Medicine therapies effectively aid patients experiencing stress, anxiety and acute or chronic pain by supporting:

  • Comfort

  • Relaxation

  • Improved rest

  • Clearer thinking

  • Improved circulation

  • Sense of well-being

  • Reduced stress

  • Natural healing process

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program

MBSR is an eight-week evidence-based program that offers intensive mindfulness training to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression and pain. Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR uses a combination of mind-fulness meditation, body awareness, yoga, and exploration of patterns of behavior, thinking, feeling and action. Learn more about MBSR.

 

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