Restorative medicine
Restorative medicine
Restorative medicine
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About iBARN®
What is iBARN® medicine?
iBARN® medicine is a novel approach to the way clinicians examine, evaluate and treat patients as well as the manner in which patients are approached and handled throughout the iBARN experience. It not only considers a variety of medical and scientific elements, it fully integrates them. We have spent centuries reducing medical and scientific questions to the molecule, to the sub-atomic particle. iBARN® medicine allows the knowledge and experience of these disciplines to integrate synergistically.
iBARN® Medicine facilitates the mental, physical and social well-being of patients using a scientific approach to clinical reasoning and the application of centuries of scientific data demonstrating animals’ cognitive and emotional function, particularly its influence on health.
Science-based...
integrative – Scientific, traditional & beyond-traditional
Behavioral – Activity-based diagnostics & treatments
Alternative – Acupuncture, massage, LASER
Restorative – Rehabilitate, regenerate
Rx – Pharmaceutical
Nutraceutical – Nutritional, supplemental, herbal
...medicine
About iBARN®
iBARN® was envisioned by DR Elle, first as a scientist, then as a K9 trainer/handler and now as a veterinarian. She remains highly motivated to facilitate and promote healthy mind, body and community in veterinary patients.
In the last several decades, science has begun to unfold the multi-directional relationship between psychology, neurology, immunology (“psycho-neuro-immunology”) and well-being. This relationship is complex and its understanding in its infancy.
Nonetheless, it is clear these elements have significant influence on each other. We can no longer subscribe to the idea that health can only be diagnosed or treated through physical measures. Nor can we accept that a strictly physical approach to health can be successful. iBARN® Veterinary Services is uniquely qualified and experienced in mutli-directional relationships between physiology, psychology and medicine
We're not just thinking about it,...
we're practicing medicine differently.
Mental health
Mental health is often not considered in the diagnosis, treatment or even well-being of patients in the veterinary field, unless it is drastically affected by disease or illness. But healthy mental function (e.g., sensation, perception, planning, executing) is critical, especially in performance animals. iBARN® strives to not only include mental well-being as an important element of health, but also as a key element of treatment and recovery. iBARN® Veterinary Services is uniquely qualified and experienced in mutli-directional relationships between physiology, psychology and medicine.
Physical health
Physical health of any animal is perhaps the most familiar element of a balanced individual. For millennia, the human species has strived to learn and apply more and more knowledge to increase our quality of life through physical health, early diagnostic strategies, state-of-the-art treatments, etc. iBARN® uses an integrative approach (in strategy and discipline) to diagnose, treat and assess recovery.
Social health
Social health is rarely considered in diagnosis or treatment in veterinary medicine. While “the herd” is often used to describe behaviors and considered in some livestock medicine, it’s impact on health is rarely considered. Yet decades of research demonstrate that social well-being has significant effect on behavior patterns, psychological and physical well-being. Even independent species like cats, are affected by social health. iBARN® not only takes into consideration the social health of patients, but takes advantage of it as both a diagnostic and treatment strategy.
About our logo...
Our logo has some inherent design elements, such as bringing together 3 ideas. For iBARN®, these 3 elements are Mental, Physical and Social health. But it goes beyond these intuitive components. It bridges the cognitive dissonance between the man-made idea that primary colors are blue, red and yellow and the physiological reality that color vision does not perceive yellow but rather green. Perhaps the discipline of physics and its sub-discipline of optics may argue that light has an inherent yellow spectrum. Physiology, neuroscience, physiological psychology, cognitive psychology disciplines, philosphers like Immanuel Kant and perhaps uwriters like William Shakespear would respond, "a rose is a rose by any other name." What does that mean? Physicists only call the perception "yellow" because humans named the color before understanding the physiology of the sensation (or sensory physiology) of "yellow" -- which is actually green!
iBARN® goes beyond the perception of reality to the understanding of the sensory systems that detect, transduce, transport, translate reality and all the steps leading to the physiology of perceiving reality (acknowledging individual variation). This component to the iBARN® concept is key to our approach to our patients and the mental, physical and social elements of their health and quality of life.