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Wellness Care vs. Medical Care

What’s the huge difference between wellness treatment and standard medical care? Wellness care activates the body’s healing ability, not by adding something to the system, but by removing any interference with all the normal function, trusting the body would know what to do in case nothing were disturbing it. This is the principle with the chiropractor. Traditional standard medical care, on the other hand, seeks to treat a symptom with the help of something coming from the outside a medication, a surgical treatment or procedure. In medical terms, for every sickness or disease, there’s a pill.

Inside Out versus Outside In

If a patient has high blood pressure, a regular medical approach is always to pick a drug that lowers blood pressure, and ask the patient to take the drug. This could serve to lower the blood pressure, but ignores the main cause that is making hypertension high, and runs the risk of negative effects complicating the individual’s recovery. Whether it’s the nutritional issue, faulty control by the nerve system or even a manifestation of stress, the medication could decrease the blood pressure, leaving the problem causing the symptom of high blood pressure unaddressed.

The Wellness Approach

Wellness is a state of optimal circumstances for normal function and then some. The wellness approach is usually to find underlying reasons for any disturbance or interruption (which may or might not be causing symptoms at the time and make whatever interventions and life adjustments would optimize the circumstances for normal function. That environment encourages healing, and minimizes the need for invasive treatment, that should be administered only if absolutely necessary. When the body is functioning properly, it tends to heal effectively, it doesn’t matter what the condition. If the body heals well and also maintains itself well, then there is another degree of health that goes beyond “asymptomatic” or even “pain-free” which reveals an open-ended opportunity for vitality, vibrant health, and an enhanced experience with life.It is true for mental and emotional health as well as physical health. Some people are affected psychological problems, creating an atmosphere of mental and emotional wellness will address but the most serious problems.

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