In this week’s episode of Your Body Advocate, I talk about how to create the best team of health professionals to work together on your behalf and make the best team possible for you.

The Western Medicine model has helped millions of people and have many brilliant minds involved to come up with amazing ways to help people.

To make the most of this medical model, these 2 steps are obvious, but can help you make the most of your team:

1. Ask questions: write down the questions so you are sure to have them ready at the right time.
2. Communicate how you respond to your health professional’s treatments and suggestions.

When you have gone through the Western Medicine model and you are still struggling, in pain, or just don’t feel well, here are some options to help. Look for some other support in your community. Because so many of my clients ask me for names or alternative options to feel better, yet have never heard of some of the treatments I suggest, I wanted to go over a few today.

First, I will list the treatments with the dictionary definition. Next, I will give a few personal examples.

Here are 4 ideas of treatments to try:

• Acupuncture
• Chiropractic Care
• Ayurveda
• Homeopathy

1. Acupuncture: A system of integrative medicine that involves pricking the skin orr tissues with needles, used to alleviate pain and to treat various physical, mental and emotional conditions. Originating in ancient China, acupuncture is now widely practiced in the West. 
2. Chiropractic Care: A system of integrative medicine based on the diagnosis and manipulative treatment of misalignments of the joints, especially those of the spinal column, which are held to house other disorders by affecting the nerves, muscles, and organs.
3. Ayurveda: Ayurveda is a form of alternative medicine that is the traditional medicine of India and seeks to treat and integrate body, mind and spirit using a comprehensive holistic approach, especially by emphasizing diet, herbal remedies, exercise, meditation, breathing and physical therapy.
4. Homeopathy: The medical treatment using cures founded on resemblances; the theory and it’s practice that disease is cured by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses.

These are just 4 basic alternative treatments you could try to get a different perspective to your issues if you are not having any luck with Western Medicine.

Links:

• Acupuncture information: John’s Hopkins site
• Chiropractic Care
• Ayurveda Medicine
• Homeopathy.org