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With so many complementary therapies offering to support your health, you might be wondering which are suitable for you. Maybe you’re interested in naturally optimising your health, or perhaps you’ve been searching for answers to a persistent health problem, but never quite finding them.
Integrative Medicine could be the answer you’re looking for. It encompasses a wide range of therapies which may be recommended for you according to your particular health issues and goals, to form a comprehensive health plan.
Read on to discover more about Integrative Medicine and what it can offer, so you can make informed choices about your healthcare.
Why is Integrative Medicine Increasingly Important?
Conventional medicine is excellent at treating acute health issues like infections and injuries. Because of this, it saves thousands of lives every single day. However, in the case of chronic illnesses, conventional medicine doesn’t generally look for or address the causes of disease, nor has it traditionally focussed on disease prevention. Instead, drugs are prescribed to suppress symptoms, while the causes of the symptoms don’t go away. In other words, conventional medicine is only part of the puzzle when it comes to health.
Many chronic illnesses stem from a combination of factors. Managing your symptoms solely with medications can create problems in the long run.
Integrative Medicine bridges the gap between conventional medicine and complementary therapies. Its goal is to treat you as a whole person, addressing your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Integrative Medicine considers your lifestyle, psycho-emotional factors, and your preferences. Its goal is to optimise wellness.
Which Therapies Does Integrative Medicine Employ?
Because Integrative Medicine addresses health in such a comprehensive way, it incorporates a number of different modalities. At The Forbes Clinic, we have a team of therapists, including:
- Functional medicine. This approach focuses on identifying and addressing the biological root causes of diseases. It seeks to understand and correct the underlying imbalances contributing to ill health. These may be complex interactions between genetics, diet, lifestyle, and environmental factors. Functional medicine practitioners use a range of tests to directly pinpoint the causes of symptoms.
- Mind/body therapies. Stress and state of mind produce significant changes in your body’s physiology. So, positive emotional health has a huge part to play in healing.
- Physiokey pain relief. If chronic pain is troubling you, this drug-free treatment mimics the body’s pain signals. This boosts your body’s natural production of pain-relieving chemicals called endorphins, as well as stimulating the healing process. Long-term use of painkillers can remove the stimulus for your brain to heal the injury, so kickstarting the healing process can be very useful for chronic pain. This means only a finite course of treatment is usually required.
- Nutritional therapy aims to maximise health and healing with personalised nutrition and lifestyle changes.
- Nutrigenomics focuses on the link between nutrition and genetics. Your unique genetic makeup influences how you respond to nutrients, and how nutrients affect the expression of your genes, which instruct your body how to operate. Knowing your genetic picture can be useful to empower you to prevent diseases from occurring.
- Bioresonance is a therapy based on quantum physics. Using a hair sample, it measures disruptions in the electromagnetic waves emitted by your body which can indicate health issues. Electromagnetic waves can then be used to harmonise your body’s natural frequency.
- German New Medicine concentrates on unresolved emotional trauma and its effect on the onset of disease. Health conditions are seen as a reflection of your body’s natural repair mechanism, while chronic conditions will often persist or recur if the underlying trauma is not dealt with.
- Homeopathy. This works on the principle that your body can heal itself if given minute quantities of natural substances capable of promoting healing.
- Naturopathy, which treats you as a whole, supporting your body’s innate ability to heal itself.
We are a natural health clinic, yet backed by medical expertise. This understanding of both conventional and natural medicine can be invaluable for an in-depth understanding of the related factors that have contributed to your health condition.
Integrative Medicine – A Harmonious Approach
Used in combination as needed, these therapies provide a comprehensive approach combining a number of healing modalities, tailored to your needs. Our therapists regularly confer with one another, ensuring you receive the most appropriate support, care and advice. As with many things in life, a combination of therapies can be greater than the sum of their parts.
Our therapies share similarities, but their approaches differ. They focus on treating the root causes of your disease rather than the symptoms, as well as prioritising self-care. You will learn about the factors impacting your health, empowering you to take charge of your wellbeing. The aim will be to heal your mind, body and spirit.
If you come to us for help, between us we can find the solution. Your body has the power to heal itself. We invite you to take charge of your health today.
