What is the three-day health immersion?

Duke Integrative Medicine offers a health immersion program: a three-day retreat in which participants have access to a team of experts from a range of medical and complementary disciplines.

The team works in close partnership with each patient and plans a strategy for optimizing health, whether it’s to recharge and kick-start a more healthful lifestyle, to prepare for or recover from surgery or cancer therapy, or to navigate a life change such as menopause.

How does a health immersion work?

Participants in the health immersion program spend three days at the Integrative Medicine facility. During that time they receive:

• An in-depth assessment with a physician to identify and prioritize health issues and establish wellness goals.
• Sessions with an integrative health coach to brainstorm and strategize ways to make these goals a realistic part of everyday life.
• Five sessions with an assortment of health professionals to explore treatment and wellness options such as yoga, acupuncture, mindfulness meditation, self-hypnosis, nutrition, exercise physiology, psychology, reiki, or massage therapy. The sessions are selected by the patient, in conjunction with a nurse, based on the patient’s unique goals and needs.
• A comprehensive, personalized, long-term wellness plan, created by the patient’s team of caregivers.
• Three months of follow up with the health coach to track progress and problem-solve.

The health immersion experience gives each patient the opportunity to work closely with a team of expert medical professionals to look in-depth at the many aspects of health -- physical, emotional, and spiritual.

A sequential series of therapies and experiences designed specifically for the individual ensures that at the end of the health immersion experience all of a person's health concerns are addressed with the very best that all of medicine has to offer.

"The health immersion is a powerful, multiple-day experience that can change your health and your life," says Shelley Wroth, MD. "The goal of the health immersion is to help our patients plan for health, as opposed to just treating disease, so they can begin to live the healthy lifestyle they envision."

Duke Integrative Medicine also offers an annual membership. For more information, call 1-866-313-0959 or visit dukeintegrativemedicine.org.