Maja Jurisic, MD, CPE, Vice President and Medical Director of Strategic Accounts at Concentra®, is a leader in applying research results to improve patient care. She is board certified in emergency medicine and occupational medicine. Jurisic is a leading advocate of alternative pain scales to aggressively reduce opioid use. She has served as a consultant to various states in federal efforts to improve return/return to work for injured employees.
Sometimes you need to broaden your horizons to find the right solution to your problem.
For example, in a recent article we outlined how digestive health and gut-brain synergy can help recover from work injuries.
However, exploring these health factors is not part of the traditional care approach. The tools available in conventional medicine may be insufficient, and several complementary therapies may provide an effective method.
dominant paradigm
When I was in medical school, there were two paradigms or patterns about how the human body worked.
In some rotations (e.g., orthopedics), the dominant idea was that the body is a machine with parts that sometimes break down or wear out, and that they need to be “repaired” or replaced.
In other rotations (such as internal medicine), the biomedical model depicted the human body as a chemical factory. Disease was primarily seen as a situation in which the normal chemical environment was abnormal and other chemicals (in the form of tablets or injections) were provided to restore the body to its proper functioning.
This paradigm, which was (and still is) widely taught in medical schools, was mechanistic and reductionist, reducing the complexity of the body to nothing more than a set of biological causes.
The mind, body, and spirit are interconnected, and perhaps the mind, body, and spirit need to communicate and coordinate in order to not only improve a patient’s physical function, but to improve their overall health. No one mentioned that. Alternative therapies such as energy healing focus on aspects of health beyond the physical.
energy medicine
Energy medicine uses specific intensities and frequency transmissions to stimulate the repair of one or more tissues or to allow the built-in healing mechanisms to function more effectively.
Such energy can come from the environment, other humans, or medical devices and helps restore balance to the body’s systems.
We now know that many of the most common and costly diseases and disorders are due to chronic inflammation and are best explained from an energetics perspective. Taking energy out of the equation makes them difficult to prevent or treat.
The most well-documented energy fields are the bioelectric currents generated during the functioning of the heart, brain, and muscles. We know them by the techniques that measure them: electrocardiography (ECG), electroencephalography (EEG), and electromyography (EMG).
It has been shown that even small energy fields can have biological effects. It explains how low-energy vibrational fields from medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and even essential oils, botanical and homeopathic remedies, and even the voice and human hands can activate a vast number of cellular processes. will help you.
Acupuncture and sound healing
We learned that cells communicate through biofields, or biologically generated fields. The field of biofield science is expanding and provides the scientific basis for increasingly used energy therapies such as acupuncture and sound healing.
Acupuncture originated in China and has been used in some form for at least 2,500 years. This therapy is most commonly used to treat pain (back, joints, neck, etc.) and inflammation.
The National Health Interview Survey found that the number of acupuncture users increased by 50% between 2002 and 2012, and many states have approved the use of acupuncture.
I am particularly interested in the increasing use of sound in diagnosis and treatment.
Sound is produced by vibrations passing through matter in the form of waves. The vibrations travel through the skin, bones, and fluids of our bodies, making our entire system receptive to sound vibrations.
Frequencies that are too high or too low for the human ear to perceive are still registered as vibrations through the nervous system.
Inaudible frequencies are often used in medicine. An example is an ultrasound scan in obstetrics. It is also used to examine internal organs (liver, kidneys, etc.) and used therapeutically by physical therapists to help tissues heal.
In 2015, researchers at Columbia University published a study showing that primary cilia, antenna-like structures on cell membranes, receive and respond to vibrational energy fields such as sound, light, and radio frequencies. They vibrate like tuning forks, and when vibrations in the environment resonate with the receptor antennae, the protein’s charge changes and the cell’s shape changes.
What this means is that sound waves have the ability to reshape cellular structures in ways that may help treat diseases associated with primary cilia defects, such as arthritis, polycystic kidney disease, obesity, heart failure, and even cancer. This means that they may have the ability.
Removing the “alternative” label
Albert St. Giorgi, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, once said: “In every culture and every medical tradition before our time, healing was accomplished by moving energy.”
Modern science is uncovering evidence of why some energy healing practices previously considered “alternative” are effective. This not only opens up new avenues of research and potential future treatment options. It also allows medical professionals to complete the paradigm of how the human body works.
Focusing on the parts and analyzing the whole will make your explanation more accurate. But in order to achieve this, we lose sight of the whole, the cooperative movement of energy throughout the system that enables higher levels of health and performance.
As clinical research continues to analyze the effectiveness and safety of complementary treatments, a wider range of effective tools will become available to improve outcomes for injured workers. Sho. &
