Global health issues under the spotlight at camexpo 2014
camexpo 2014, taking place at Olympia London on 4-5 October, will feature dynamic new content from some of the biggest and brightest names in the integrative and natural health care industry.
Tailored specifically to equip complementary practitioners, therapists and healthcare professionals with the latest research and techniques, conference highlights for 2014 include highly-anticipated Keynotes from twelve new speakers. Among them are renowned osteopath Leon Chaitow, founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies; microbiologist Dr Vanya Gant; and Harley Street nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston, who’ll be exploring theories for optimising children’s cognitive development through nutritional therapy.
Antibiotic resistance, cancer, auto-immunity, chronic disease, children’s nutrition, infertility, and obesity – some of the biggest issues facing the health care profession today – are all coming under spotlight for 2014.
Manual and integrated approaches to chronic pelvic pain
Already proving a big draw for camexpo visitors that are familiar with his work, Leon Chaitow was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of Westminster in 2005 for his ‘services to complementary and osteopathic medicine’. In this, his first appearance at the show, he’ll be discussing chronic pelvic pain and dysfunction, a common and debilitating condition believed to affect around a million women in the UK[1].
“There is growing evidence that some exercise regimes, and many sporting activities, as well as lifestyle choices and habits, may be contributing to these surprisingly widespread problems – mainly but not exclusively affecting women,” Chaitow explains.
However, evidence suggests that chronic pelvic pain may respond positively to appropriate manual and integrated approaches. He’ll be using his session (on Sunday 5 October) to offer therapists “a number of useful manual and re-education approaches, including breathing patterns and nutrition," which may help them to improve their clients’ symptoms.
An integrative treatment approach for metastatic cancer
Another big name for camexpo 2014 is Professor Ben Pfeifer (who last spoke at the show in 2007). He’ll be outlining his integrative treatment approach for metastatic cancer, including individual treatment results and clinical studies. It includes basic measures, such as dietary and life style changes and individual exercise programmes, to hyperthermia and fever therapies, immune system support, and specifically designed plant-derived-therapies.
Director of research at the Aeskulap Clinic in Switzerland, he is perhaps best known for developing prostate cancer and breast cancer complementary protocols.
Speaking ahead of his Keynote on Saturday 4 October, he says that whilst there has been some progress in cancer treatment overall, there still needs to be “better integration of holistic treatment approaches by mainstream oncologists”.
“Here, a lot more can be done,” says Prof Pfeifer, “I am sure that the overall outcome for our patients could be further improved this way and certainly side effects from toxic treatment modalities could be reduced.”
“Cancer today has become a disease of epidemic proportions. Based on present cancer incidence, 1 in 2 persons in Europe will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime – a tragic and shocking scenario.”
“We are all are called upon to stop this development. And camexpo 2014 provides the perfect opportunity to meet with other physicians who like myself, are striving to reduce the personal suffering of individual cancer patients, and help reduce cancer incidence in general,” he says.
Probiotics: an infectious diseases physician’s view
Antibiotics resistance is now a dangerous, “worldwide threat to public health”. That’s the verdict from the World Health Organisation (WHO), which issued its first global report into antimicrobial resistance earlier this year. Whilst it’s not a new headline – Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England, described the issue as “ticking time bomb” back in March 2013[2] – as more diseases become resistant to conventional modern medicine it’s a story that can’t be ignored.
“As a practicing front line clinician dealing with serious infection in my patients on a daily basis, I am very aware of the very real threat of emerging antibiotic resistance,” cautions Dr Vanya Gant, speaking ahead of his Symprove-sponsored session on Sunday 5 October.
“I see this only too clearly when I find patients in central London, whose TB bacteria are sometimes extremely antibiotic resistant. This makes the challenge of controlling this resurgent disease ever more difficult, with an ever decreasing medical armoury.”
A consultant of microbiology and infectious diseases, and divisional clinical director at the University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, Gant has gained a strong interest in the emerging evidence that probiotic organisms can stimulate and modulate the immune system. Where probiotics have shown to be effective against diarrhoea, as a result of infection or antibiotic treatment.
“We must keep an open mind in order to find new ways forward and to reduce, whenever possible, the use of antibiotics in a range of medical situations. I look forward to presenting some recent trial findings on probiotics to the camexpo audience, who share my interest in such interventions, and the promise they hold,” he says.
Other new speakers at camexpo 2014 include:
- Functional exercises for ACL ligament rehab – Dr Bettina Karsten, senior lecturer at Centre for Sports Science and Human Performance at University of Greenwich
- Lifestyle, nutritional and complementary strategies after cancer: a summary of the international evidence from an oncologist perspective – Dr Robert Thomas,
- Weight loss with Ayurveda: does it really work? – Dr Deepa Apte, Head of Training at the Ayurveda Pura Academy
The full camexpo Keynote seminar programme is available to view online at www.camexpo.co.uk/seminars.
To register for an entry ticket to camexpo (including admission to the show’s two Keynote Theatres, sponsored by Revital), please visit www.camexpo.co.uk/register and use priority code CMEX588 to register in advance for £7.50 before 3 October.
camexpo will take place at the new venue of Olympia, London, on 4-5 October 2014.
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[1] Pelvicpain.org.uk: http://www.pelvicpain.org.uk/uploads/documents/Pain%20call%20for%20network%20of%20clinics-%20DH_096233.pdf
[2] Chief Medical Officer annual report: volume 2: Infections and the rise of antimicrobial resistance (published 11 March 2013): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officer-annual-report-volume-2
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