Surgeon Opens Mind Body Institute

A neurosurgeon in Fort Wayne, Dr Rudy Kachmann, talked yesterday about how his 40 years experience in brain surgery has convinced him of the connection between emotions and disease, a connection many hypnotherapists term ‘the mind-body connection’.  He strongly believes that 70 per cent of what a physician sees is due to stress factors.

He has even opened the Kachmann Institute at Lutheran Hospital in order to concentrate on complementary medicine.  It is the first of its kind to be housed inside a hospital.  Kachmann stresses however, that he still insists people should also have conventional medicine, but that his role is to coach people and show them how they can make themselves sick but also help themselves to get better and stay healthy.

The Institute runs a variety of complementary and alternative treatments such as yoga, meditation, healing-touch, fitness and reflexology and also houses a pain medicine clinic, which uses biofeedback, acupuncture and hypnotherapy.

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