Classes and patient programs

Our mission is to provide powerful therapeutic modalities for healing the mind, body, and spirit for effective chronic pain management.

Move Beyond Pain ®
The Art and Science of Pain-Free Living™

"Tell me and I'll forget;
show me and I may remember;
involve me and I'll understand."

-- Chinese Proverb

Patient Program Options:

Workshops: For the patient workshops offered through the Samaritan Good Move! Program, please contact Dr. Mari Goldner, the program director at 541-768-4855 and/or click here for dates.

These workshops have been designed to help people with financial difficulties. They are taught by clinicians who have completed the MoveBeyondPain® certification program with Ms. Gandhi. At present the workshops are being offered in Albany, Lebanon and Newport.
Private Consults with Ms. Gandhi: Ms. Gandhi will be available for private consults from October 1, 2010

Covered by the (Samaritan Employee Wellness Benefit Program.)

The MoveBeyondPain® Foundation Course is:

A comprehensive program to empower a person living with chronic pain (CP).
A combination of educational lesson plans and a therapeutic movement routine for bringing mind, body and spirit in alignment.
Based on an award winning research study- now published in a peer reviewed Journal.
Designed by Namita Gandhi, MS, MBA, MA, a clinical exercise physiologist and a person with chronic pain.

Following is a list of educational lesson plans covered in this course:

Overview of Chronic Pain
Anatomy and Physiology of Pain
Stress Management
Home Therapeutic Modalities
Medications
Diet/Nutrition/Supplements
Exercise Prescription
Pacing and Goal Setting
Posture and Biomechanics
Hope, Happiness and Healing

People with the following conditions would find this course beneficial:

Fibromyalgia
Arthritis
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Back Pain
Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Many other debilitating pain conditions

The course can be most helpful in improving:

Pain
Fatigue
Stress symptoms
Range of motion
Sleep quality
Quality of life and general well being

Course duration and facilitator:

The MoveBeyondPain® Foundation Course is taught in 10 sessions
Each session lasts 90-120 minutes
All programs at the Integrative Movement Clinic are taught by Ms. Gandhi

Ingeniously combining breath awareness with body awareness, clinical exercise physiologist Namita Gandhi teaches you the art and science of relaxing the mind, body and spirit for effective chronic pain management. This comprehensive program is based on Ms. Gandhi's personal experience with chronic pain and her research study that won an outstanding research award from the Northwest American College of Sports Medicine and is now published in the Women & Therapy Journal.