Bend Health WINTER EDITION 2017 | Page 5

Bend Health Guide is a collective of Health Providers in Central Oregon with a mission to promote health. This is the resource guide to find all the great Health providers Bend has. We are more than a print directory, we are a community that supports and promotes each other, a healing tribe. Online we have Mobile Wellness Coupons at bendhealthguide.com. We support our advertisers online with Facebook, Instagram & soon a Youtube channel. We host community Meet-ups to educate, connect and network at meetup.com/Bend-Health-Guide. When you join Bend Health Guide, it’s more than an advertisement, you are part of a movement for health. We believe in Tithing! Bend Health Guide tithes 10% of profits to local non-profits we feel passionate about such as Locavore, Waldorf School and Harmony Farm Sanctuary. If we have extra ad space we gift it to members of our community that we believe in, such as Be a Local in Bend, Lights Out, etc. Gloss paper is coated on both sides with a natural clay calendared for a glossy look. It is 100% Recyclable!! Please Recycle this issue when your done reading it! Terie Terie Sandusky created Bend Health Guide as a collective of Health Providers in Bend. She was looking for a better venue to promote her Kimimi Healing Arts business. She is a Massage Therapist & Reiki Teacher with 20 years of experience. Melissa Melissa Tugmon is our Winter 2017 Creative Director. As native to Central Oregon, she brings great passion for community building and a live-long dedication to the creative arts. She loves working with heart-centered female entrepreneurs. Bill Sweigert is our Distributor, putting guides everywhere in town, even in snow! Bill Suzanne Andrea Susanne Frilot is The Connector. She loves connecting business owners, she runs Bend Health and Wellness and Business Master Mind. She’s a Juice Plus rep, a supplement of fruits and vegetables to strengthen the immune system and lower inflammation in the body. Andrea Stuart contributed her editing and magazine expertise to this issue. She’s a Yoga Teacher offering awe inspiring Yoga Retreats in Bend. Linsey Cascalia is our treasured Editor. She read the plethora of submissions we received for this issue, who knew pain would be such a popular topic in our Healing Community? Responding to the Opoid Crisis Holistic Health Research is responding to Opioid Crisis Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) an independent, nonprofit organization has allocated $5.7 million to fund studies for holistic therapies for treating low back pain including massage, acupuncture, osteopathy, chiropractic, yoga, cognitive behavioral therapy, exercise therapy, and physical or occupational therapy, while restricting access to opioids. In the U.S., opioid addiction and overdose deaths have reached epidemic proportions, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, up to 650,000 Americans could die from opioid addiction over the next decade. This holistic therapy study is based at Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, a division of Kaiser Permanente, and will take the form of a natural experiment, comparing outcomes in patients with low back pain to provide access to Holistic Health options for nondrug treatments. The study’s projected end date is July 2020. Medical professions may finally accept what many of us have known, Holistic Health offers a safer, more effective treatment than opioid pain killers. PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS: Cover Photo: Weikerken Altema Matt Crowley local Bend photographer, Facebook page @MattCrowleyPhotography [email protected] Yoga Images provided by Yoga Lab & Hummingbird Rising Yoga, thank you! Conscious Ink Tattoos gave us images, thank you!