Wellness

Wellness is first and foremost a choice to assume responsibility for the quality of your life. It begins with a conscious decision to shape a healthy lifestyle. Wellness is a mind set, a predisposition to adopt a series of key principles in varied life areas that lead to high levels of well-being and life satisfaction.

It’s a word that’s used a lot these days, and I’m sure you hear it all the time. It’s a buzz word almost, and traditionally, health and wellness have been thought of as the mere absence of disease and disability. This is known as the medical model, and the problem with it is that it promotes the idea that one cannot be well while living with a disability.

In recent years there has been new thinking in this area and it has led to the development of newer models of health and there are numerous different models.

Basically, the wellness model that people adhere to today moves beyond that traditional notion of health and wellness as being the mere absence of disease to the optional functioning of each individual regardless of current health status or disability.

So, wellness exists on a continuum and is unique to each individual person. Each of us defines our own wellness. It’s hard to say, you know, you’re well or you’re not well. That’s not the way it works. It’s a unique thing based on our individual circumstances. And wellness in this view is also seen as a holistic concept. It’s looking at the whole person and not just at your blood pressure level or how much you weigh, or how well you manage your stress.

It’s not one thing; it’s all of these things connected. Wellness involves the spiritual, the body, the mind, and the concept dimensions.

Health care wellness offers many models. At this clinic the approach adopted is in the vein of alternative holistic disciplines.

Each discipline offers a certain percentile of effectiveness on its own merit. The chosen approaches at this clinic specifically utilizes acupuncture, chiropractic, physiological therapeutics, nutritional counseling and exercise programs. It has been our experience that although each individually is gratifying in results, overall and integration and complementing of these disciplines prove to produce exciting and marvelous degrees of healthy wholesome results.

Each patient is an individual and although symptoms may be similar, the approach to treatment and resolution has to be defined on an individual and customized basis.

This approach for over the past forty years at this clinic, has proven that the integration of natural health disciplines have helped to restore normal functional and performance levels of good health.