Holistic doctors believe your body, mind and spirit are interdependent. To heal their patients’ bodies holistic doctors use natural treatments like acupuncture or chiropractic care as well as lifestyle modifications like dietary adjustments or changes.
Some holistic doctors specialize in naturopathy while others practice traditional medicine with whole-body techniques. When selecting your holistic doctor, make sure they possess both the credentials and experience to meet your specific needs.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medical tradition with modern applications that uses thin needles to stimulate energy pathways in the body and restore their flow when blocked, helping the body’s own healing capabilities. Acupuncture can provide effective treatment for various health conditions.
Acupunture can provide pain relief from chronic conditions like osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and digestive disorders. Furthermore, it helps boost your immune system to help fight diseases while improving overall health – it’s an invaluable way to manage stress, depression and improve sleep quality!
Acupuncture can help you feel more relaxed and balanced by balancing hormones and neurotransmitters in the body. Acupuncture can even boost your mood by activating serotonin release; an emotion-regulating chemical which regulates emotions and moods. Furthermore, acupuncture may assist your cardiovascular system to help lower blood pressure.
When trying to become pregnant, acupuncture can help balance your reproductive hormones and support a healthy pregnancy. Acupuncture can even replace fertility medications; plus it can relieve PMS symptoms and menstrual cramp pain.
Acupuncture can also help manage allergies by strengthening your immune system before allergy season begins, and working in combination with allergy medications to decrease symptoms once they do manifest themselves.
Acupunture can also help treat digestion problems, high blood pressure and achy joints. To ensure optimum results and safety of treatment, it’s crucial that you find an experienced practitioner in this field with all required licensure and certifications, in addition to having an outstanding community reputation and being available to answer any queries about the process or benefits. Choosing a holistic practitioner with multiple services – such as nutritional counseling – may also be advantageous.
Dry needling
If you suffer from chronic pain, your physician may suggest dry needling as part of an overall holistic treatment plan. This specialized physical therapy technique involves inserting thin needles into tight muscle trigger points to relieve pain and increase mobility; similar to acupuncture but more focused on treating muscular-skeletal conditions.
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center physical therapists who provide dry needling have received extensive training to ensure it is both safe and effective. At your session, you will lie on your back in loose clothing to allow your provider to easily reach the area being treated. They will sterilize it first before palpatating it to locate tight muscles. As the needle penetrates both skin and muscle, you will experience a pinprick sensation as it penetrates both. Once at its target point, the needle may cause muscle twitching or release sensation – an indicator that its work has done its job of disrupting trigger points. Your physical therapist may leave the needle in place for several minutes or move it around, known as pistoning.
Dry needling works by creating a localized twitch response that breaks up trigger points and releases muscle spasms, relieving pain. Furthermore, needles may increase blood flow to the area to carry away acidic waste while providing oxygen-rich cells for healing purposes. While any relief provided from dry needling may only be temporary in nature, ongoing sessions may help improve symptoms over time.
Trigger points form in knotted muscles due to injury or overuse, and can lead to discomfort elsewhere by activating nerves and relaying pain signals directly into your brain. Over time this pain can escalate into other issues like inflammation and reduced flexibility.
Holistic practitioners can assess and address both your symptoms and underlying causes for their condition using holistic treatments like acupuncture, dry needling and nutrition counseling as well as suggesting natural diet and exercise programs to prevent future flare-ups of symptoms.
Chiropractic care
Chiropractic care is a form of holistic medicine that utilizes manual manipulations to alleviate pain and promote healing, particularly the spine, but other joints in the body may also benefit. Similar to physical therapy, but involving manual manipulation rather than exercises. Many people seek chiropractic treatment as an aid against chronic back pain; however it can also be utilized for other health concerns.
Regular chiropractic adjustments may help decrease the number of medications that you need. Chiropractors take an integrative approach to health, not only addressing spinal alignment but also offering advice about diet, sleep habits, stress levels and posture. Lowering prescription drug usage will improve quality of life while making you more energetic and healthy overall.
Studies have demonstrated how spinal misalignments can interfere with an effective immune response and compromise its efficacy, but chiropractic adjustments can restore proper nerve function and enhance one’s immunity, making it easier to ward off infections from viruses or bacteria that might wreak havoc on our systems.
Chiropractic care may also help to decrease both the frequency and intensity of migraine headaches by relieving muscle spasms and decreasing inflammation in the head – two common triggers for headaches. Furthermore, it may increase restful sleep quality.
Some women report that chiropractic care can also help ease menstrual symptoms like cramps and headaches by improving pelvic health and balancing hormone levels in their bodies.
Nutrition counseling
Nutrition counseling, or dietetic therapy, is a practice in which a health professional specializing in dietetics assists their patient in making necessary dietary adjustments and creating healthier eating habits. Nutrition counseling’s purpose is to promote overall good health and prevent illness; its use during cancer treatments has proven especially helpful; in particular it can aid patients by strengthening immunity quickly while speeding healing time and mitigating side effects such as fatigue and nausea from chemotherapy treatment.
Nutrition counseling aims to assist individuals in making sustainable dietary changes by addressing aspects such as budget, cultural preferences and physical activity levels. Nutritionists may also offer strategies to overcome any potential barriers such as stress or emotional eating that stand in their way of making positive lifestyle choices.
Nutritional counseling differs from dieting in that it does not focus solely on restricting or eliminating specific food groups, like calories. Instead, holistic practitioners like those at RxWellness Spine & Health emphasize the quality of each food source and its role in fueling our bodies – this holistic approach may result in increased energy, reduced nutritional deficiencies and a more balanced diet.
Holistic doctors may offer treatments beyond nutrition, such as acupuncture or dry needling. Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medical practice in which needles are inserted into specific points on the body to restore balance and increase energy flow; commonly used for pain management and stress relief. Dry needling, on the other hand, is a modern Western technique in which needles are inserted into tight muscles in order to relieve pain and increase mobility.
Holistic doctors’ main advantage lies in their holistic approach to healing, which encompasses mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This holistic approach differs significantly from traditional medicine which often only addresses symptoms or illnesses. A holistic doctor can help alleviate depression and anxiety as well as address chronic pain or inflammation through therapies like spinal decompression or physical therapy; additionally they may perform other procedures like spinal decompression to assist the healing process.
