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.
Regular Chiropractic care is a healthcare choice MANY people add into their lives and then maintain for long periods of time, if not a lifetime – they choose to receive regular chiropractic adjustments because of the results they experience and the functional changes they experience in their lives. Disclaimer: We MUST emphasise that we do … Read more
Chiropractic is a broad profession There can be differences in the services and clinical interventions offered by different chiropractors. ‘Wellness’ chiropractic is one way to describe how I choose to practice chiropractic. Other terms I could use would be “vitalistic” or “philosophical” which have inter-related meaning and relevance. This variability of what is offered as … Read more
Moving Is Life! Key #3 is about improving quality and quantity of movement – because moving is life! We look at posture, efficiency, sedentary lifestyles or repetitive movements, breath, stretching, balance, coordination, flexibility, strength, power, push-pull, functional training, aerobic and anaerobic fitness, lifting techniques, ergonomics, sitting and more… The Vibrant Life Keys are all about … Read more
Key #2 is about improving your internal chemistry; it is so VERY important to health and wellbeing. Sometimes called the internal ‘mileux’ or even the internal ‘soup’ – this is the interplay of nutrition, hydration, drugs, acidity, neurotransmitters, hormones, inflammatory mediators and more. This all happens within the watery environment of self – the exchange, … Read more
Learning about Stress Physiology can help you Live a more Vibrant Life! Stress is a ubiquitous contributor to dysfunction – and knowing more about it can drive different behaviours and choices! Let’s face it – we all have some idea in our minds of what ‘stress’ or ‘being stressed’ means to us. These ideas though … Read more
One of the most critical terms to contemplate and define is the word ‘Health’. The Wellness & Prevention paradigm proposes a very specific definition, which we describe below. It is this definition which inspires and drives our work with chiropractic care and health & wellness coaching. What does it mean to you? To begin the … Read more
Vibrant Life Keys are the framework for us to recognise the requirements we all need to achieve for an ULTIMATE LIFE! Better FUNCTION = Better LIFE These two concepts are synonymous (mutually INCLUSIVE) – you can’t have one without the other! The Vibrant Life Keys are heavily influenced by (and we credit/thank) the following sources: … Read more
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