Fully Alive Medicine
About Fully Alive Medicine
Fully Alive Medicine (FAM) is the art and science of healing addressing care of the whole person – body, mind, emotions, and spirit. It combines conventional medicine and complementary therapies to promote optimal health and happiness; to prevent, treat, and potentially cure chronic illness by focusing on the multiple causes of dis-ease; and to help you fulfill your greatest potential. FAM is based on the core beliefs: love heals and anything’s possible.
FAM is a synthesis of Dr. Rav Ivker’s 46-year career as a family physician, holistic healer, cannabis clinician, health educator, and author. The evolution of FAM has been chronicled through his books, beginning in 1988 with the 1st edition (self-published) to the 4th ed. (Tarcher/Penguin – 2000) of the best-selling, Sinus Survival; Thriving (Crown – 1997), The Complete Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine (Tarcher/Penguin – 1999), and his latest book, Cannabis for Chronic Pain (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster – 2017).
Through holistic health education, FAM’s primary objective is to empower and guide patients towards feeling more fully alive and more fully conscious – a state of well-being encompassing the 5 P’s: peace, passion, purpose, patience, and play! By practicing exceptional self-care, patients/students experience optimal health and happiness.
Features Fully Alive Medicine
Chronic Pain
At FAM we specialize in utilizing cannabis to treat patients suffering with the most common chronic pain conditions, both physical and emotional pain. Whatever their condition has been, the results have been truly remarkable both for pain relief and for reducing or totally eliminating the use of prescription opioids, anti-inflammatories, benzodiazepines (anti-anxiety), and sleep medications.
Chronic Sinusitis
Since curing his chronic sinusitis in 1987, and the publication of the first edition of Sinus Survival the following year, Dr. Rav has continually been improving and updating his Sinus Survival Program. This holistic medical treatment program has proven to be consistently successful for treating and preventing sinus infections and for significantly improving or curing chronic sinusitis.
Dr. Rav has been practicing energy healing since 1986, and became a certified Healing Touch practitioner in 2004. Katie Wells, Dr. Rav’s assistant at FAM, has studied and practiced energy healing modalities for over 18 years. These include Massage Therapy, Bowen Technique, Reiki, Reconnective Healing, and Comfort Touch (for hospice patients).
Optimal Health
The primary objective of the practice of Fully Alive Medicine is the experience of optimal health and happiness. Dr. Rav offers consultations to anyone committed to practicing exceptional self-care, regardless of whether or not they’re suffering with a chronic condition.
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