About CuraCore
THINKING BEYOND JUST DRUGS AND SURGERY
Imagine that, instead of writing a prescription, your healthcare provider instead discussed ways to prevent and treat your ailments with acupuncture, botanical remedies, laser therapy, diet, and more. What if you received a massage post-operatively instead of a morphine drip? The time has come to change medicine, and to change it for the better. To elevate standards of care beyond reflexive recommendations for addictive medications and other pharmacologic “band-aids” to mop up the damage from an unhealthy lifestyle.
At CuraCore, we intend to make a difference in patients’ lives by improving and expanding treatment providers’ skills to reach beyond the prescription pad and pharmacy shelves.
A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH
TO INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Our Mission
History of CuraCore
The CuraCore Integrative Medicine & Education Centers in the US and Canada began to take shape in the 1990’s as its President and CEO, Dr. Narda Robinson, opened her practice in osteopathic medicine and then added veterinary medicine to her career. Over the next two decades, Dr. Robinson treated both human and veterinary patients with integrative medicine while also teaching and researching its principles and practice at Colorado State University. In so doing, she developed a new way of teaching and practicing integrative healthcare that transcended the myths and beliefs of what was formerly known as “holistic care”. Instead of relying on invisible energies and mystical mechanisms through which to study and investigate the value of “alternative” treatments, she designed methods and developed courses based on solid scientific foundations and information extracted from research. CuraCore’s educational platform differs dramatically from most other programs in integrative medicine by standing firmly on science while at the same time emphasizing the need for patients and healthcare providers to explore more options that lead to better outcomes than merely the drugs and surgery alone.
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