Integrative Medicine

Our Services Integrative Medicine Integrative Medicine Integrative medicine seeks to restore and maintain health and wellness across a person’s lifespan by understanding the patient’s unique set of circumstances and addressing the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences that affect health. Through personalizing care, integrative medicine goes beyond the treatment of…

Therapeutic Toolbox

Our Services Therapeutic Toolbox Therapeutic Toolbox Whether to treat the underlying roots causes for your medical problems, or simply to maintain the excellent health status you’ve worked hard to achieve, requires us to have the most comprehensive and state of the art therapeutic tools. We’ve assembled a health care team unrivaled by all practices we’re…

Advanced Testing

Our Services Advanced Testing Advanced Testing To best evaluate your unique state of health and to allow us to optimize your treatment plan, we dig deep to determine the status of your body, in ways you’ve likely never been screened. We utilize cutting-edged laboratory testing, including the most advanced functional medicine tests, along with sophisticated…

Complex Medical Conditions

Complex Medical Conditions

Our Services Complex Medical Conditions Complex Medical Conditions The world in which we live is incredibly different from the one our grandparents were born into. This great change has had significant effects on the medical conditions now manifesting in our friends, family members, and ourselves, creating a new paradigm of complex illness. We now face…

Healthy Aging

Healthy Aging

Our Services Healthy Aging Healthy Aging: Living Long and Living Well It has often been said that everyone wants to live longer, but no one wants to get older. In other words, we would all like to live many, many years at peak health and vitality. Our job is to help you do just that!…

Integrative Gynecology

Integrative Gynecology

Our Services Integrative Gynecology Integrative Gynecology Women have unique healthcare needs. We specialize in reproductive health and the many ways that gynecological health intersects with whole-body health. The female reproductive organs, the primary focus of gynecology, are intimately connected to every other organ system in the body through estrogen and other hormones. In addition to…

Menopausal Transitions

Menopausal Transitions

Our ServicesMenopausal TransitionsMenopause Every woman on this planet, barring some tragedy, will experience menopause. The term “menopause” literally means the cessation of periods. But that is a tiny fraction of what menopause is and what it means for a woman’s health! Menopause is the cessation of ovarian function. One of the primary jobs of the…

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Integrative Medical Group of IrvineFrequently Asked QuestionsFrequently Asked QuestionsWhat are your office hours?We are open Monday – Friday, from 8:00AM to 5:00PM, and on some Saturdays, from 8:00AM to noon. Does Dr. Gersh practice telemedicine?Dr. Gersh is available for telemedicine appointments. If you live in California or if you live outside of the United States,…

What Is Integrative Medicine

What Is Integrative Medicine

Integrative Medical Group of IrvineWhy Choose Us?What Is Integrative Medicine? Integrative Medicine is what all medicine should be. It treats each person as a complex individual composed of interrelated systems, not as a collection of discrete organs. Diseases and disorders usually involve multiple organ systems and may have symptoms that would traditionally fall under a…

Cherie Rife, LMT, HHP, NCBTMB

Certified Licensed Massage Therapist

Cherie specializes in relieving pain caused by migraine headaches, arthritis, fibromyalgia, pre- and post-surgical procedures, automobile and sports injuries. She is highly adept at releasing impinged nerves and bound-up muscle fibers.