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Promoting whole-person medicine to support healing and wellness in all aspects of life

The UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine collaborates across healing disciplines to combine evidence-based complementary and integrative therapies with state-of-the-art clinical care to achieve optimal health and well-being. 

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Our Specialties
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Acupuncture

Restore balance to body, mind, and spirit through the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine — offering personalized, holistic care using acupuncture to regulate the nervous system, reduce pain, and improve circulation.

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Massage Therapy

Massage therapy — available inpatient and outpatient — delivers goal-oriented, individualized treatment to ease pain, reduce stress, and support comfort, healing, and quality of life.

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Integrative Nutrition

Personalized nutrition care rooted in integrative and functional medicine — helping you optimize health through therapeutic, whole-person dietary strategies for a wide range of conditions and life stages.

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Naturopathy

Naturopathic medicine involves offering holistic, non‑pharmacologic care using nutrition, botanical, and supplement expertise to support a wide range of symptoms to support chronic pain, overall health, and well-being.

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Inpatient Hospital-Based Services

Support your healing during a hospital stay with integrative medicine services including acupuncture, massage, and osteopathic manual medicine  — just ask your doctor for a referral to "CIM."

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Integrative Medicine Physician Consultations

Integrative Medicine offers whole‑person consultations for chronic conditions, complex symptoms, and prevention goals, providing evidence‑informed guidance on lifestyle, nutrition, mind‑body practices, and non‑pharmacologic strategies in coordinate with primary care. 

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Osteopathic Manual Medicine

Structure, function, and self-healing are inseparable. Our Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine combine whole-person philosophy with expert hands-on manual medicine to restore your body's natural balance and optimal function.

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SLIM Program for Weight Loss

Transform your health through a physician-led group program that combines lifestyle medicine, coaching, mindfulness, and interactive virtual support to help improve chronic conditions and overall well-being.

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Health & Wellness Coaching

Our nationally board-certified health and wellness coaches empower you with the knowledge, tools, and personalized support to build lasting lifestyle habits that improve well-being and better manage chronic conditions.

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Mindfulness, Stress Reduction & Compassion Cultivation

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at UC San Diego teaches you to harness the powerful connection between mind and body, building meditation and mindful movement skills that reduce stress and support lasting health and well-being.

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Integrative Pain Management

UC San Diego's Integrative Medicine approach to pain management combines pain neuroscience, osteopathy, acupuncture, massage, mindfulness, nutrition, and movement into personalized, evidence-based care that reduces that empowers you to take an active role in your own healing.

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Employee Wellness

Looking for ways to boost morale, reduce sick days, and improve productivity? Allow our experts in integrative medicine to design a program to support these goals and more.