The UZIT mission is to ‘bring care back into healthcare’
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“A lot of our studies contain qualitative
data, such as how patients’ pain scores have been affected or their perceived reduction in stress levels, but we also realise the importance of qualitative data and we have a large study pending from UCLA covering such markers. “For example, one of ‘the crown
jewels’ for hospitals is whether you can affect length of stay and the associated patient satisfaction and cost savings of that, and it’s something we’ll be able to quantify more in the future.”
Wellness army UZIT works both by training medical practitioners in complementary therapies, and by putting experienced wellness practitioners into a medical setting. Wellness practitioners, such as those working in spa facilities and yoga studios, need to show a minimum of fi ve years’ practice in their fi eld before joining UZIT either on an intensive training programme (which includes clinical rotation hours) at studios such as Yoga Shanti in New York, Piedmont Yoga in California, and Yoga on High in Columbus, or else by taking part in longer, part-time training currently delivered at centres like YogaWorks studios across the US west coast. Meanwhile Cilibrasi says UCLA is a
great example of a top-down initiative where UZIT has worked entirely with existing medical staff. Around 140 of them have been trained to date – spread across a variety of departments such
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as oncology, nursing, rehab services, respiratory therapy and radiology. A further 50 staff will have been UZIT trained by summer 2015.
Layering therapies So is there a magic formula to UZIT’s five chosen modalities, which have been put together with the help of Karan’s high-profile associates – yoga gurus such as Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman-Yee? Cilibrasi simply says:
“Those who work in spa or wellness settings know that a deep tissue massage is very healing, but if you then
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