Ms. Lara Michelle Aitken DOM
Acupuncturist
5298 COMMANDER DR ORLANDO FL, 32822Practice Philosophy
Alternative Medicine
About
Lara Aitken is an acupuncturist practicing in Winter Garden, FL. Dr. Aitken evaluates and treats patients based on the concepts of oriental medicine. Acupuncturists complete their evaluations by getting a patient history and looking at and touching the body. Then, they place very fine acupuncture needles into specific points on the body. Stimulating these points and nerves is how Dr. Aitken treats the patients condition. Many of the bodys systems respond to acupuncture, and it can treat physical pain as well as emotional stress.
Education and Training
Florida College of Integrated Medicine Oriental Medicine 2002
Board Certification
Preventative MedicineAmerican Board of Preventative MedicineABPM- 2006
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Reliability of measurements of pulmonary artery pressure obtained with patients in the 60 degrees lateral position.
- Expert critical care nurses' use of pulmonary artery pressure monitoring.
- "Thinking aloud": data collection in the natural setting.
- The effect of education and counselling on knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about responses to acute myocardial infarction symptoms.
- Hypothermia and associated outcomes in seriously injured trauma patients in a predominantly sub-tropical climate.
- Recalibration of the delirium prediction model for ICU patients (PRE-DELIRIC): a multinational observational study.
- Multinational development and validation of an early prediction model for delirium in ICU patients.
- Screening for sepsis in general hospitalized patients: a systematic review.
- Comparison of pulmonary artery pressure measurements in the supine and 60 degrees lateral positions.
- Advanced nursing-practice.
Treatments
- Acupuncture (needle/laser)
- Hypnotherapy
Experience & Accolades
- Doctor of Oriental Medicine2012Lara Aitken, Acupuncture Physician
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