OJ Sahler, MD

Director of Quality Assurance

O.J. Sahler, MD graduated from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Duke Medical Center. After two years in the Army, she returned to Rochester to complete a fellowship in Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has been on the faculty of the medical school since 1975. Dr. Sahler became interested in Complementary Medicine in 1997 when she developed the Music Therapy Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Golisano Children's Hospital. She was trained in Biofeedback about 5 years ago and uses it with both child and adult patients who have abdominal pain, headache, and stress related problems. Dr. Sahler served as the medical director of the Integrated Complementary Medicine Program when it first opened as an arm of the Sands Cancer Center 10 years ago.

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Treatments offered

Biofeedback
Biofeedback is a form of complementary medicine that involves measuring a subject's quantifiable bodily functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, conveying the information to the patient in real-time. This raises the patient's awareness and conscious control of their unconscious physiological activities. By providing the user access to physiological information about which he or she is generally unaware, biofeedback allows users to gain control of physical processes previously considered an automatic response of the autonomous nervous system.