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With an increasing number of patients seeking care for complex and chronic conditions, these certifications empower health care providers with the foundational knowledge and skills for a more holistic treatment approach that can improve patient outcomes and provide a better quality of life,” said Dr. John Childs, chief executive officer at EIM. The certification in lifestyle medicine and the integrative behavioral health certification for rehab providers can be completed entirely online in six to nine months. The new certifications follow the success of Purdue Online and EIM’s therapeutic pain specialist certification, which has enrolled more than 100 health care providers since its launch in 2020. EIM is reimagining health care education through hybrid learning, which integrates evidence-based practice, top faculty from across the country, and a leading curriculum that combines online learning and collaboration with intensive hands-on lab experiences.

When we describe the patient experience or the patient journey, we usually begin the story the moment the patient walks through the doors of a PT clinic—or maybe the moment a patient reaches out to schedule an appointment. In reality, the patient journey doesn’t begin with a patient’s initial evaluation—or even with the patient’s initial call to schedule an appointment. Odysseus doesn’t know that he should see a PT—and he isn’t an outlier. For argument’s sake, let’s say Odysseus is familiar with PT and actually knows that he should seek treatment from a physical therapist.

I understand enough about Lyme disease to know it is a bacterial infection that typically results in an onslaught of symptoms acutely, generally responds favorably to antibiotics when identified early, but results in chronic symptoms in about 10-20% of patients, long after the infectious period has passed. The neuro-immune-endocrine system may choose a protect-by-pain expression, or a protect-by-fatigue expression, or a protect by diarrhea expression, or a protect-by-withdrawal expression, or a protect-by-dizziness expression (you get the picture), in order to preserve life and safety. Having experienced this collective trauma of a pandemic, we have all witnessed, heard of or read enough to know this illness wreaks havoc on the body’s protective systems, and that everyone’s experience with the infection is as unique as the individual themselves. It seems clear that our patients suffering from longstanding COVID symptoms will need many of the things that help us be successful with patients struggling with CLD, SEID or FM.