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Integrating Eastern &Western Medicine for Your Healing Journey |
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Brain (Optimal) |
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Cancer |
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Detox |
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Heart Disease |
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Hormone |
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Kids (Autism/ADD) |
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Optimal Child |
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Optimal Employee |
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Optimal Nutrition |
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Optimal Schooling |
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Optimal Therapy |
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Optimal Yoga |
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Practitioners & Staff |
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Sleep |
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About Dr. Cheikin |
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Michael Cheikin MD is a holistic physician, Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ("Physiatry"), Pain Management, Spinal Cord Medicine and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, all recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties. He is also licensed in Medical Acupuncture since 2001 when he completed his training at the prestigious UCLA program in Medical Acupuncture for physicians. He received his M.D. magna cum laude from SUNY Downstate in 1980, served his internship in Family Practice and Psychiatry at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, and residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (“Physiatry”) at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in New York City. Besides practicing Holistic Medicine, Dr. Cheikin is the Associate Medical Director of Inglis House, A Wheelchair Community, where he has been providing specialty care to patients with chronic disability using conventional and holistic medicine for almost 20 years. He is an expert in wheelchairs, pain, wounds, spasticity and contracture management and other conditions that affect people with disability. Since 2006, he has also served as the Associate Medical Director of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, where he contributes to the programs for young children with disability from all over the world. He is also developing special yoga and nutritional programs for young children. For over 10 years, Dr. Cheikin served as the Medical Director of Chestnut Hill Rehabilitation Hospital, where he led the institution and it’s nursing home through numerous successful surveys by JCAHO, CARF, and other State and Federal reviews. While there, he developed programs for Chronic Pain, Wheelchair Evaluation and Prescription, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue, Wound Care, Spasticity and Contracture Management, Workers Injury, Senior Assessment, Medical Yoga, and others. Dr. Cheikin has extensively studied yoga, diet and metabolism, Ayurvedic, Chinese and energy medicine and other alternative modalities for 30 years. He designs balanced, natural, individualized health programs for his patients utilizing a combination of education and counseling, medical yoga, whole foods and supplements, and medical acupuncture. He also uses special laboratory tests and diet plans for his patients with obscure, chronic and severe problems who have not responded satisfactorily to other methods of healing. He accepts most insurance plans for consultation by adults and children. For those with hardship and without insurance, special consideration is provided. Dr. Cheikin is the author of “Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndromes: A Nine Step Pathway to Healing”. He has also produced CD’s on yoga and relaxation for his patients and students. Dr. Cheikin currently teaches four yoga classes a week in Chestnut Hill and Plymouth Meeting, and oversees other classes as well. These classes are offered at the medical/gentle, therapeutic, beginner and advanced beginner levels, and are open to people of all ages and medical conditions with or without yoga experience. For those with complex conditions consultation is advised to determine the appropriate level. He and his staff also offers private and semi-private yoga instruction to those who cannot attend class because of distance, disability, or other issues. All teachers working with Dr. Cheikin have at least 15 years experience with yoga and have degrees in fields related to heath and education. Dr. Cheikin is also a playwright, having several plays produced in the Philadelphia area. See the home page for more information including a review of two of his plays in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Cheikin is currently designing a “Medical Yoga” training program for yoga teachers. For several years, he has been offering workshops on the interface of medicine with yoga at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Healing in Lenox Massachusetts. He is currently writing a series of books on Medical Yoga and Holistic Medicine. Dr. Cheikin is a regular contributor to Yoga Living Magazine. Reprints of several of his articles are available on this web site. Additional resources are available to registered students and patients. Dr. Cheikin’s “favorite” patients are those who either are seeking prevention, or have chronic and obscure problems. In both cases, he attracts patients who wish to work in a collaborative manner and are seeking root-cause healing and prevention. His approach is methodological and efficient in time and resources. For most inquiries, an initial consultation is recommended and is often “covered” by insurance (a specialty referral is required if the patient’s HMO requires one). Many patients ask if Dr. Cheikin is willing to act as a “primary care physician”. Unfortunately, he cannot because the demands of keeping abreast of the many developments in holistic medicine, and the creation of new protocols to heal the illnesses that plague our society (pain, fatigue, sleep disorder, maldigestion, depression/anxiety, Lyme and other infections, heavy metal toxicity, etc). However, he is glad to coordinate care with his patients’ primary care physician, and can refer patients to a growing list of primary care physicians and other practitioners whom he finds to be like-minded. Dr. Cheikin is also willing, under special circumstances, to have phone appointments, when getting to the office is not practical due to distance or disability. However, for an initial consultation, a visit in person is required due to the current crisis in malpractice and licensing in Pennsylvania. We maintain a list of several local hotels that can accommodate patients coming from a distance. |
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