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Alternative Therapies To Help You Live A Longer And Healthier Life

   

If you’re ready to feel better than you have in years, then read on.

Alternative health treatments are actually safer than mainstream medical treatments as they do not use the adverse chemicals found in many prescription drugs. Most alternative treatments will not interact with anything you may be taking in to improve your health. Nor do they have any side or harmful effects such as loss of energy that’s related to prescription drugs.

We assure you that alternative therapy is not affiliated with any snake oil salesmen, hippies, or cults. We’re talking about something here that’s safe as well as natural and can be used as an adjunct to traditional therapies minus the side effects associated with pharmaceutical substances.

You’ll be able to make an educated analysis of your situation and approach your illnesses based on a clearer medical perspective. You’ll be able to talk to your physician about topics like herbal medicines, homeopathic medicine, reflexology, and acupuncture in Marlton when you have all the information.

Alternative therapies such as reiki, yoga, and meditation are spiritual practices aren’t just for generating a belief system, they have been connected to the enhancement of the immune system and helping increase the quality of your life.

When you learn and apply therapies such as massage therapy, rolfing, iridology, art therapy, Feng Shui, detoxification, light therapy, visualization, and aromatherapy in your life, which you can even do at the comfort of your own home, you’re guaranteed to enjoy a long and healthy life.

An Integrative Approach To Treating Shoulder Pain

   

There are many ways to treat shoulder pain. This is just one way that I treat shoulder pain. In this case study, my patient has developed chronic upper back and shoulder pain due to her intense, serious workout regimen. I’m going to integrate traditional Chinese medicine with myofascial release techniques to kick this pain in the butt.

I’m going to start this treatment with acupuncture in Orlando. On that note, I want to add something. Every practitioner and healer has their own style that they’ve developed over time and practice and it works for them and their patients. As an acupuncturist,my style is minimalist. I use as minimal amount of needles on a patient as I can while getting the required results.

If your acupuncturist uses more or less, it doesn’t mean they are wrong, it’s just their style. For my needling placement for this patient, I am using tenderness in the area as my guide. I’ll be hitting the muscle belly of the supraspinatus and linking through the rhomboids and adding some electrical stimulation. Pain, tenderness and spasm on one or more of the segments of the thoracic spine is pretty common.

I see a ton of this kind of back pathology in my clinic. The fascia can become glued down so my goal at this point is to mobilize and separate the fascia. I want to start loosening the fascia with some internal and external rotation to the traps (trapezoid muscles) and superior border of the scapula.

And now, heavy hot stones.

First, I go to work with my stones rubbing the neck and the levator scapulae. I just love to hit that erector spinae muscle group and then fanout towards the medial aspect of the shoulder blades and hit those rhomboids. I’ll wrap up this treatment with some cervical decompression techniques. I want those vertebral discs to suck in interstitial fluid and metabolic substrates.

I also want to create some joint play and cervical mobilization with some side bending.

That’s it. I hope this article will give you a better understanding of an integrative a medical approach to treating shoulder pain. This is just one approach.