The Foundation of Holistic Healthcare

We all have the choice when it comes to healthcare, and usually that choice is divided into two avenues. You go the conservative route, or the holistic route. As a chiropractor, I feel that divide on a regular basis, because like the stream's current and the salmon, they seem to be going against one another.

One thing is certain - we need to stop comparing the two as if they were in the same watercourse. Holistic healthcare, chiropractic specifically, approaches the body with a completely different stance - that instead of disease, there is dis-ease. That instead of putting more into the body to fortify it, and to battle off symptoms, we foster what is already within the body, which is its inherent ability to heal.

This weeks blog comes from the eyes and mind of a chiropractor, within the philosophy of the profession. I will admit that it may be tedious, and a bit dense for a glance! I will apologize now, but I have confidence that we are all independent, intellectual thinkers. What will change the future of healthcare, is each one of us understanding the avenues available to us, and how both can progress the future of healthcare synergistically. 

Below is a diagram describing how the body functions neurologically, in general terms, and is the main force behind our potential to heal.

Is it really as simple as this? That there is an inherent intelligence within nature and within ourselves that will allow us to live healthier and higher functioning lives, and that health in truth is not dependent on man-made prescriptions and elixirs? Yes, and in so many ways it is not. It is an intricate system that is dependent on environmental influences and even genetics, but the holistic premise is to foster our natural abilities to heal. A seemingly simple concept, and an immense foundation to grow upon.

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Thank you

Dr. Katherine McCarty, D.C.