Healthcare can be defined as ANY approach or intervention aimed at helping a state of sickness move toward wellness by improving cellular function.
This includes any intervention which identifies cells that are not operating at 10/10 function – and then works toward removing, reducing or counteracting physical, chemical, mental-emotional or behavioural toxicities and/or resolving deficiencies.
The result of this model is that you are moving a person from wherever they are on the health scale HIGHER, back toward the 10/10 level.
This is the ‘salutogenic’ model where healthcare is focused on factors that support human health and well-being, rather than on factors that cause disease (pathogenesis). This model specifically concerns itself with the relationship between health, stress, and coping.
In our view healthcare professionals do need to be consulted regularly, whether you are suffering from overt symptoms and disease, or not! Healthcare is a process, not an event. Healthcare providers are coaches – skilled, knowledgeable people who can help you learn new ideas and implement strategies to make great change and help you live a better life.
An approach or intervention that further induces a state of toxicity or deficiency, or overrides the organisms natural function, EVEN if it removes a symptom or helps someone feel better is NOT true healthcare.
It may be a useful or helpful intervention for someone in crisis, but it is not about actually moving someone further along the health continuum to a state of better health.
Much of the traditional system of what is called ‘healthcare’ in our society (while important, valuable and valid when a patient is in a critical or crisis state) does not move toward further cellular health. Instead, it tends to suppress symptoms, and by making someone ‘feel’ better, gives them an inaccurate belief or trust that they are now well or that the problem is resolved.
This archive contains a range of articles and resources that focus on this salutogenic model of healthcare.
Four Levels of Health Psychology: We’d like to credit our colleague Dr Martin Harvey for describing these four levels of Health Psychology. There is a continuum of ‘belief’ in our society (and culture) about: what health is, what is actually ‘means’ to be healthy, how important health is to maintain, and what are the best … Read more
There is a clear relationship between Vertebral Subluxation Complex (Subluxation for short), sedentary living, negative body thoughts, somatoneurophysiology™, and less-than-ideal levels of health, or increased levels of illness. Somatoneurophysiology™ Somatoneurophysiology™ is a term coined to show the clear relationship between somato- (the body wall or body ‘structure’) neuro- (the nerve feedback messages from theses structures … Read more
It cannot be denied that movement deficiency is a problematic state that can lead to many functional consequences if allowed to continue. This is as true for small degrees of movement deficiency as for large, and as true for small joints of the body as for the large weight-bearing joints like knees. Vertebral Subluxation Complex … Read more
Why is subluxation pandemic in industrialised (‘western’) societies? “Sitting is to the spine, as sugar is to the teeth” – Dr James Chestnut Many people never see a chiropractor, and often those that do come only as after trying everything else, and usually because they want help with a pain or a symptom. What most … Read more
Subluxation dysregulation is a state of that drives ‘mis-perception’ of your body and environment by your brain. Your cells and brain communicate via two main types of message – healthy ‘body awareness’ (good) signals or less healthy ‘stress’ (bad) signals. The body awareness signals are better thought of as being like a ‘nutrient’ your brain … Read more
Once we understand my definitions of Health and Sickness, it follows that healthcare can be defined as ANY approach or intervention aimed at helping a state of sickness move toward wellness by improving cellular function. Any intervention that identifies cells which are not operating at 10/10 function – and then works toward removing, reducing or … Read more
If you understand and accept my definition of Health based on the balanced function of all the body’s cells, then the way we define sickness (in terms of cell function) becomes a simple idea. My definition of SICKNESS states that anything LESS than 100% perfect health…anything less than 10/10 on the health scale…is sickness. This … Read more
The chiropractic adjustment is the skilled delivery by a Chiropractor of a specific (gentle) force in a precise direction, to a dysfunctional (subluxated) joint or it’s supporting tissues (it may be ‘stuck’ or just not moving correctly in its full range). Simply put, a subluxation is a joint not functioning correctly; the effects of subluxations lead … Read more
Correct spinal motion is vital: Correct motion of spinal joints AND their associated tissues, in addition to proper posture are SO important for correct BRAIN FUNCTION and overall health. This is particularly true because a great many brain functions have been linked to movement feedback and the maintenance of our upright position against gravity. As … Read more
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