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The Wellness Approach
The main difference between wellness
care and standard medical care is that wellness care seeks to enhance your natural healing ability. Standard medical
care, on the other hand, seeks to treat a symptom by intervention – a medication, a surgery or a procedure. Wellness
care does not try to drug the body into submission. Instead, wellness care seeks to remove nervous system interferences
and give the body the support (nutrition, diet, exercise, stress free time) to function at a more optium level of health,
naturally. Wellness care trusts that the body has the ability to heal if nothing interfers with it. As
a veterinarian and former RN, our doctors know there is a time and place for drugs and surgery and support the judicious use
of both. But as chiropractic specialists in orthopedics and nutrition respectvely, we know that health can only truly
be achieved when the body functions at optimum, naturally.
Health is the stable state of optimal physical, emotional, chemical, and spiritual function,
not merely the absence of disease and symptoms. (Webster's Dictionary) The wellness approach is to look
for underlying causes of any disturbance or disruption, (that may or may not be causing symptoms at the time), and help you
optimize the conditions for normal function. That environment encourages natural healing, and minimizes the need for invasive
treatment, which should be administered only when absolutely necessary. When the body is working properly, it heals effectively,
no matter what the condition. When the body heals 'well' and maintains itself 'well' there is another level
of health that goes beyond “asymptomatic” or “pain-free” creating an open-ended opportunity for vitality,
vibrant health, and an enhanced experience of life.
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