KU Med Center to offer acupunture therapy

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Patients seeking alternatives to western medicine will soon have more options at the University of Kansas Medical Center’s Integrative Medicine Clinic.

Next month, the clinic will begin offering acupuncture therapy. In January, it will offer yoga classes and massage therapy. Although the Med Center already offers yoga and massage, including them in the Integrative Medicine clinic will give patients a more centralized outlet for treatment.

The program, which began with one person in 1998, has consolidated its offices into a single floor of the Medical Center’s Sudler Building in June.

The clinic already uses naturopathic treatments, nutritional counseling and intravenous therapy with doses of ascorbic acid. The intravenous treatments are part of an ongoing research program.

Garrett Sullivan, a medical doctor and research fellow with the clinic, said he typically saw patients two days a week. He worked with patients for about an hour at a time, as opposed to the standard 15 minutes that doctors consult with their patients during a traditional office visit.

“Being trained as a medical doctor, I find out what their symptoms and chief complaints are, but my therapy won’t be focused toward pharmaceuticals, and that’s part of what sets us apart,” Sullivan said.

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