Letter from the Directors
Thank you for taking the time to peruse our website. Whatever questions or concerns may have brought you to our site, we at the Alliance Institute for Integrative Medicine want you to know this: there is hope. Hope for healing. Hope for compassionate care. Hope for medicine that treats you as the whole person that you are. At the Alliance Institute, we think this is a very exciting time to be practicing medicine and helping others in their journey toward health and wholeness. It is our belief that the field of medicine is literally undergoing a renaissance of sorts at this very moment, with newer, more effective therapies, treatments and tests becoming available every day. We are fortunate to be surrounded by an incredible team of physicians and healthcare practitioners. When we see what superb results they achieve every day, we realize that this form of medicine really works!
Practicing medicine the way we do is a culmination of many dreams – ours, our practitioners and our patients. Where better to receive Integrative Medicine than in a medically directed healing environment where your practitioner really listens – and works together with a team of other practitioners to offer a unique healing approach in a total therapeutic environment.
Our quest to meld the best of complementary and alternative therapies with the best of conventional western medicine began in the late 1970’s in South Africa, where, as medical students, we began to see patients get better utilizing alternative therapies when conventional medicine had been unable to help them. After medical school we set out on a quest to discover what alternative therapies could offer. Our journey took us from Australia to the Orient, through Hawaii, the U.S. and Europe as we sought out therapists who we heard were performing “miracle cures.” (We defined a “miracle cure” as one that defied the results that could be achieved by conventional western medicine). We studied acupuncture in Japan and a variety of different healing techniques with various experts. Now, we are happy to say that you can get the best of these right here in Cincinnati. What’s more, we have added cutting edge treatments such as nutrigenomics, optimal nutritional and metabolic evaluations, stress and neurotransmitter evaluations and a variety of advanced tests that can help us evaluate what is best for YOU! Working this, way, we are able to continually refine our approach and offer patients better and more effective treatments personalized to their own particular needs. Our results bear this out. Now as part of Bravenet (www.Bravenet.org) we are finally able to do the research that is needed to show that this approach works.
We call our approach PRE-EMPTIVE (before it happens), PRO-ACTIVE (do something about it), PERSONALIZED (just for you) medicine. It is based on a systems biology approach to medicine, where the individual is seen to be made up of, as well as part of, multiple systems. By working on multiple systems at the same time, we get a synergistic effect. i.e., 1 plus 1 =11 (not 2).
While we can’t promise to cure everyone, we can and do commit to working with you in a personalized, professional manner to help you achieve optimal health. In the process, you just might be surprised by the healing that occurs in other aspects of your life as well.
Your Partners in Healing,
Drs. Steve and Sandi Amoils
