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New Hampshire's Hospital for Children

Elliot Pediatric Integrative Medicine

275 Mammoth Road, Suite #1 – Manchester, NH 03109
Phone 663-3222 – Fax 663-3229

4th Annual Conference on Integrative Medicine

Weaving Integrative Medicine into the Pediatric Primary Care Practice

Thursday, October 15, 2015

SERESC Conference Center
29 Commerce Drive
Bedford, NH
Click here for the conference brochure.

Because traditional medicine isn’t always enough…

The goal of integrative care is to incorporate all healing modalities into patient care. Integrative medicine (IM) can be defined as an approach to the practice of medicine that makes use of the best available evidence taking into account the whole person (body, mind, and spirit), including all aspects of lifestyle.

Designed for children and adolescents…

Integrative medicine emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of both conventional and complementary/alternative therapies. Within the practice of Integrative Medicine there are multiple modalities which are available to the patient and the practitioner. These are commonly broken down into these broad categories:

Conventional medications
Nutrition/Diet
Exercise/Physical Activity
Whole Body systems (Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM), Ayurveda, Naturopahty, Homeopathy)
Botanical medications
Energy Medicine (Reiki, Healing touch, Qi Gong etc)
Supplements
Spirituality
Manual Medicine (OMM, Chiropractic, Massage, PT, Zero balancing, reflexology)
Mind-Body Medicine (Hypnosis, Biofeedback, Guided imagery, Creative therapy)

Our program at New Hampshire’s Hospital for Children is designed to cross all aspects of primary and specialty care in our health system. We combine state of the art conventional medicine with holistic treatment modalities to optimize children’s health. The primary concept is that all patients, regardless of disease, have more wellness than disease and our mission is to emphasize the wellness and augment the healing process. The program works directly with all our pediatric primary care, inpatient services and specialty physicians along with doing individual consults. Our goal is that all pediatric patients who enter our health care system have access to comprehensive, wellness based holistic medicine.

In times of need…

At New Hampshire’s Hospital for Children, our Pediatric Integrative Medicine division can help your child receive the best possible integrative care regardless of their disease. All close to home.

Services

Some of our current services include:

Inpatient and outpatient Integrative consults

Mind body therapies including inpatient guided imagery, hypnosis in the pediatric pulmonary and urology programs. Biofeedback within the Integrative medicine division and physical therapy team working with bladder and bowel function.

Acupuncture: Guidance and coordination of acupuncturists in New Hampshire familiar with treatment in children

Nutritional guidance with the New Hampshire’s Hospital for Children dietitians

Breath work and stress reduction training/recommendations

Care of the care giver programs: Tai chi/ Qi gong for Elliot health care teams

Osteopathic Manipulation in both the inpatient and outpatient setting.

Child Life services

Botanical and supplement consultation

Spirituality and incorporation into the healing process

Programs in Development

Inpatient acupuncture

Inpatient Biofeedback

Inpatient Music therapy

Increased Greening the hospital system

Office Hours

The outpatient program is located within Elliot Pediatric Specialty Group at 275 Mammoth Road, Manchester NH 03109

Office Hours: M-F 8:00 AM -4:30 PM

Call 603-663-3222 for an appointment

Meet Our Providers

Matthew M. Hand, DO

Pediatric Nephrology

Education:
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine DO 1989 Downers Grove, IL

Internships:
Geisinger Medical Center Danville, PA Maine Medical Center Portland, ME

Residency:
Maine Medical Center Portland, ME

Fellowships:
Children's Hospital Boston Boston, MA University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

Certification(s):
American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology, 2005 American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, 2000

Electronic Medical Records System

Utilizing our state of the art Electronic Medical Record System, each physician has complete patient data (immunizations, allergies, Lab results, etc.) at their fingertips to enable them to monitor your health needs more closely. If you call after hours, all physicians “on-call” can access this same information, thus providing excellent, all-inclusive care for our patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This versatile Medical Record System also enables our office to electronically transmit prescriptions and refills directly to the pharmacy of your choice.

In addition, our office also has the facilities to take and process X-Rays and to draw most lab work right on site, offering our patients convenient and efficient health care.