What is Integrative Medicine?
Integrative Medicine Geelong recognizes the unique and holistic nature of humans. It goes into the multi-factoral causes of different diseases. The sick person and the Practitioner work as a team to figure out what solution will work best for the individual.
The main priority is to support people’s health in the most natural and least evasive approach, which does not exclude symptomatic treatments of disease.
Integrated Medicine is a different way of treating people by selectively incorporating elements of alternative and complementary medicine into treatment plans which include orthodox methods.
Integrative Medicine Geelong
This type of medicine is based on a partnership between a practitioner and a patient, where alternative and conventional methods are used to stimulate a person’s healing response. The goal is to try and shift from the disease to the healing process. This type of medicine does not reject conventional methods.
THE 3 PILLARS OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Integrative Medicine Geelong is not Complementary or Alternative Medicine. It is basically an expansion of the currently limited conventional medicine that is used today. Regular medicine tends to focus on the disease only and does not often take the person’s unique processes into consideration. It is more or less the same as fixing a broken car part without even speaking to the driver or doing a tune-up.
The first pillar – Lifestyle Management
Deficiencies in the following could be the cause of an illness:
Food choices
Sufficient and appropriate exercise
The correct Body Mass Index
A person’s ability to process and remove toxins from their bodies
Stress management
Psycho-spiritual balance
The second pillar – Managing the Underlying Dysfunctions
The dysfunction is not yet the disease, dysfunction is what happens before the disease is diagnosed. Dysfunction can come in a number of forms such as over- or under-functioning of the glands, insulin resistance, immune imbalance, P.pH abnormalities, etc
Integrative Doctors will find these issues and correct them before they become a disease. Natural products will generally be used to correct a person’s imbalances.
The third pillar – Treatment of the Disease
Most times, this is not necessary, due to the fact that the body can correct deficiencies with the correct treatment, which helps it to heal naturally. Homeopathic or herbal medicines are usually used to help the body complete the healing process. Integrative Doctors will use drugs and surgery if needed. This would not be their first option, but they will not reject the idea.