Yavapai Regional Medical Center (YRMC) recently relocated its Wellness Center in Prescott – home to Preventative Medicine and YRMC’s Outpatient Physical Rehabilitation Service Department – to a remodeled facility at 1112 Iron Springs Road. That building, now clearly identified with external signage, is the former site of Whole Foods and New Frontiers. The structure at 930 Division St. has been demolished. In the next year, it will be replaced with a new 100,000-square-foot, three-story health … [Read more...] about Wellness Center Relocation Part of YRMC Expansion
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Benefits of Receiving Regular Massage Throughout the Fall and Winter
Easing from summer into fall gives us time to prepare our minds and bodies for cooler days ahead, and it is now that time of year again. Many of us are now eagerly engaged in seasonal chores of harvesting the gardens and preparing for winter. Meanwhile, we may also be experiencing new aches and pains from muscles and joints that haven’t been utilized in quite this way for many months. This is a good time to consider massage therapy to keep you going and to keep your muscles, bones and connective … [Read more...] about Benefits of Receiving Regular Massage Throughout the Fall and Winter
What to Consider When Adding CBD to Your Massage
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is the plant that keeps on giving. Its uses are impressive and can be traced back thousands of years. There are various species of cannabis, and cannabidiol (CBD), is one that has been gaining a ton of popularity. People are still often cautious of using CBD oils as they sometimes confuse CBD with THC, but there are absolute differences between the two. While THC is known to get people high or alter their state of mind, CBD does neither. It is not psychoactive and also … [Read more...] about What to Consider When Adding CBD to Your Massage
It is the Little Things That Make Us Well
In the blink of an eye, in the flash of a single moment, we are here, on this planet, and then we are gone. Life can be looked at as if we are waiting for a train. We are waiting and waiting and waiting. The train comes. And then it is gone. And for that moment in time, that blink of an eye, anything is possible. In that fleeting bit of time, we can treasure and honor and revel in the sensational experience of being human or not. I heard once, “To be well is to live well.” To treat these … [Read more...] about It is the Little Things That Make Us Well
Focusing on Wellness
It is only natural that John Amos was chosen to head Yavapai Regional Medical Center. He has been locally grown right along with the community and the hospital for the past 21 years. Amos was chosen three years ago as president and CEO of the medical center, replacing a retiring Tim Barnett who oversaw the beginnings of the explosive growth of the area and the hospital. Amos is no stranger to the medical center. He started there in the occupational therapy department and worked his way up in … [Read more...] about Focusing on Wellness
What is Integrative Wellness?
Integrative Wellness is a practice and theoretical basis for the application of healing modalities, using a wide variety of techniques to address the physical, biochemical, social and spiritual dimensions of humanity. Integrative Wellness, among other health care philosophies, rests on that of innate intelligence, that healing comes from within, harmonizing with other techniques applied from the external world. It is a section of health care with roots in Integrative Medicine, which can be … [Read more...] about What is Integrative Wellness?