Medical Care

Medical Care and Special Therapies:

Care and treatment in Camphill Village are based on the principles of anthroposophical medicine, which is an extension of conventional medical practice.  All health practitioners are fully licensed. 

Comprehensive medical care and therapies are personalized with an emphasis on prevention.  Nurses, therapists, and doctors bring to each situation the human capacities of the insightful diagnostic eye, the compassionate listening heart, and the dedication to serve the healing process.

Special therapies can be prescribed in support of the healing process.  Therapeutic eurythmy is a movement therapy in which the formative power of speech or music is made visible as gesture.

The separate elements of speech and music – words, intervals, or tones – find their essential expression in movements which are prescribed according to the illness being treated. 

Therapeutic painting and music, bath therapy, rhythmical massage therapy, horseback riding therapy, and conventional physical therapy are also prescribed according to individual needs.