• First, symptoms are signs of the in-balance caused by pathogens or unhealthy lifestyle. The in-balance is the root cause underlying the symptoms and must be treated accordingly;
• Second, each patient has a unique innate healing capacity that can be mobilized by personalized holistic care;
• Third, the innate healing, once mobilized, is able to produce sustainable therapeutic effect without on-going interventions.

The Integrative NeuroCare System is to assure its care delivery for each patient is effective and cost-effective from the beginning of treatment to the endpoint, and its efficacy is progressive and verifiable by patients and practitioners alike. The care system is, however a work in progress that is being perfected daily by close interactions between patients and practitioners at Chi NeuroHealth. The system is implemented throughout our procedures and practices.

There are four key steps in the Integrative NeuroCare System:

1. To take a holistic view of all signs and symptoms each patient shows. We try to understand what trigger those signs and symptoms, and how these triggers relate to daily living. We make a preliminary assessment of the root cause(s) underlying all the signs and symptoms, and develop a preliminary treatment program for the patient by combining various therapies.

2. To combine Western neurology with Chinese therapies to treat the root cause intensively and mobilize the healing. By observing the patient's response to the preliminary treatment, we develop a bench mark for the patient to assess the therapeutic effect, and our assessment of the root cause becomes more definitive.  It may take 3-5 sessions or longer to understand the root cause. The intensity of treatment is chosen to generate steady therapeutic effect as quickly as possible, and thus initiate the patient's innate healing.

3. To achieve sustainable therapeutic effect. The treatment program of the root cause is modified, if necessary, so that the patient's innate healing is mobilized to bring about sustainable relief of the symptoms, and hence re-establish the balance in the body.

4. To achieve sustainable health and wellness through self care. The endpoint of Chi Wellness Care is to empower the patient, so he or she learns how to take care of their own health in a sustainable fashion. We teach the patient how to listen to their body, detect early signs and symptoms, administrate preventative care, and live a balance and healthy life. Thus he or she is able to enhance their health, productivity and enjoyment without any interventions.

Dr. Kent Logan: Neurologist & MS Patient

Dr. Logan has been an avid athlete from high school to college before appearance of his MS symptoms. He was a member of Tufts University Track and Field Team from 1986 to 1988. He was President of Sigma Phi Epsilon National Fraternity in 1990. He still enjoys hunting, fishing and weight training.

Dr. Kent Logan said of his own neurological condition, “From point of diagnosis until now, I have several thoughts, mantras, and creeds that are most important and helpful to me:

• Beat MS takes inspiration and perspiration;

• Never stop until you drop;

• Care for others.”

The Timeline of Dr. Logan’s MS condition:

     1986                    Initial symptoms (transient numb left shin) were in summer 1986 before shipping off to NROTC boot camp

1987                    Two spells of vertigo in spring 1987

1988                    No symptoms

1989                    Another spell of vertigo

1990                    Finger tips slightly numb in spring 1990, official diagnosis of MS in fall 1990. My first year at Georgetown University Medical School

1991                    Endured in 3 difficult years from 1989-1991 (bad things do come in threes): dad's heart attack, my MS, and mom's passing with cancer. The med school not only was a mental challenge, but now also physical.

1992                    I realized that less physically demanding, non-surgical specialty was prudent choice - the one field where most could be learned and care offered is neurology. I can so now that I am truly empathetic with patients. 

1993                    I've had the ability to study and excel in one of the nation’s better medical institutions, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.  I leave academia to bring my training and knowledge to the community. 

1994                    Although my spasticity and fatigue make my mobility and work as neurologist difficult, I am able to see patients regularly. I attribute my success to my late RN mother's teaching of ‘care for others’, and my father’s diligence and aggressiveness as Navy Admiral. 

2006                    Receive regular Tuina massage and acupuncture treatment from Chi Wellness Longwood Clinic in Boston. I experienced significant improvement in joint flexibility and mobility.

Disclaimer: Dr. Kent Logan does not conduct conventional neurological treatment at Chi NeuroHealth LLC. He is solely a diagnostician, assessing conditions such as spasticity, ataxia, dismotility and other neural and muscular issues. His assessment helps to direct the alternative and complementary therapies provided by other practitioners at Chi NeuroHealth. Dr. Kent Logan practices neurology at Exeter Hospital in Exeter, NH.

Miles Chen: PhD, Neurobiologist and Holistic Care Pioneer

Mr. Chen works with practitioners to develop procedures and programs for applying TCM to better treat chronic conditions and for evaluating treatment effectiveness. He helps practitioners to work with patients and physicians to build better integration between TCM and the Western medicine. He also develops and coordinates research projects and educational programs. He obtained his BS in Marine Biology from Xiamen University, China in 1982, MS in Computation & Neural systems from Caltech in Pasadena, CA in 1989, and PhD in Neurobiology from USC in Los Angeles, CA in 1993. Previously he worked at MIT's Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a research neuroscientist and published a number of biomedical papers in SCIENCE and CELL. His interest in TCM originated in his childhood, when his parents were pharmacists in China.

Dr. Chen hopes to bring wellness culture into the main stream American life, in contrast to a increasingly pervasive trend in quick fixes and consumer mindset. He coins a term, WELLISM to represent the search for foundamental understanding and practice of sustainable well-living. For example, how can we maximize our innate healing capacity to fight chronic conditions? How can we maintain a natural balance using our wellness instincts developed over the course of evolution? His cultural view of wellness was strongly influenced by Daoism (or Taoism) and by peasants in a mountainous village in southeastern China. After high school he became a farmer from 1975 to 1978 in the remote village, where daily farming life remained unchanged for over two thousand years. Villagers practiced wellness routines and used natural remedies to prevent diseases.

His cultural view of wellness was influenced by Chinese Daoism, and even more strongly by peasants in Wuyi Mountain area of Fujian Province in southeastern China. When he was 16 years old and barely graduated from high school, he became a farmer in a mountainous village. He was astonished to realize that daily life in this remote village had remained unchanged for over two thousand years. And villagers, without a day of any formal schooled education, practiced wellness routines that were passed on from generations to generations. He was especially enlightened by their knowledge and wisdom -- such as when to sleep and get up, what and how to eat, how to protect water source, how much water to drink, how to refrain from excessive sexual activity (a lecture from grandmother on the eve of wedding day), when to rest and refrain from excessive farm work, and how to used natural remedies to prevent diseases. His sense of natural harmony and holistic health became imprinted and instinctual in the remote village in Mount Wuyi - an ancient Daoism site in China.

Dr. Miles Chen is the founder and director of Chi Wellness Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts. Chi Wellness Clinic started its first treatment on the morning of September 11, 2001. He pioneered the Chen Holistic Care System that makes it possible for the holistic care for chronic conditions to be effective, potent and cost-effective.