Reorganizational Healing

When we think of healthcare most of us think disease removal and restoration to where we were before the symptoms came on. This has been the traditional healthcare model for a long time. Restorative healing is great if you want to get back to where you were before, but what if you didn't like who you were before. Since most of the common diseases that plague our society are in large part caused by our lifestyle choices examples of these are: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer can be attributed to lifestyle choices. If we go to our healthcare provider and they are able to treat us by some method and restore us to where we were before the disease, but we still live the same lifestyle, what is to stop us from contracting the same disease again? This is the cycle that many people experience.

So what is reorganizational healing? I had the wonderful opportunity this afternoon to listen to two great innovators in the field of reorganizational healing, Dr Christopher Kent and Dr Donny Epstein  on a conference call. It was great to glean from their knowledge and research experience. One thing that particularly stood out to me was something Dr Epstein talked about. He pointed out that the Merriam-Webster definition of health is: the condition of being well or free from disease. He was sure to point out the phrasing of "free from disease" and not "free of disease." Free of disease makes us think that we are without disease and have no symptoms. That is what most of us think health is, but looking at the definition of the word it means free from disease, which means, the disease is still present but we are not controlled by it. How empowering is that idea! We in reorganizational healing look at the symptom or disease not as something to get rid of, but more of something to understand. Why do we feel pain? What is our body telling us? What do we need to change about our lives to better manage the pain or stop causing it? etc. The outcomes that we look for in Network Chiropractic care are observing how the recipient of care is becoming more aware of the symptoms and developing strategies to cope and improve them.  We monitor posture, nerve function improvement, and overall quality of life measures to strive for global improvement in the practice member. By using light contacts in specific areas (which change based on how the practice member is showing tension that day) on the spine, we can help the nervous system restore function. All this then allows the person to empower them to a new level of function and awareness to have a more fulfilling and enjoyable life, rather than just restoring them to who they were before.

Disease is an inevitable fact of life. How we deal with it is our choice. Will we go for the quick temporary fix, or seek out true Health and establishing strategies to understand, cope, and overcome the disease to reach a higher plain of existence? With better ability to adapt to our environment and a greater understanding of our bodies we can be free from disease.

-Mike E