Live coverage of the 2021 Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference

Katherine Shagoury

June 7, 2021
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Interdisciplinary approach to preventing and treating pain

Chronic pain is a major health problem and disease in its own right, said Mylene Huynh, MD, MPH, FAAFP, IFMCP, at the 2021 Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference held virtually June 3-5. According to Huynh, pain can be defined as, “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage…Always subjective…always unpleasant; therefore, also an emotional experience.”

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Katherine Shagoury

Katherine Shagoury

Katherine Shagoury is the editor of Integrative Practitioner. She brings a decade of experience creating and managing content for national healthcare audiences as a digital editor and professional journalist, including serving as managing editor for a popular medical billing and coding association and as a reporter for the Boston Globe, Boston.com, and USA Today. A certified personal trainer and nutrition coach with the National Academy of Sports Medicine, a certified group fitness instructor with the Athletics and Fitness Association of America, a certified barre instructor, and a TRX qualified trainer, her passion for and commitment to healthy living fuels her enthusiasm for supporting the integrative healthcare community.

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