The “alternative” therapies or treatment options we have today I like to think of as the original medicine since those options were here first. They’ve become alternatives to Western medicine because pills are easier to sell than herbs, exercises, spiritual practices, food choices and other lifestyle changes. Everyone wants easy.
The gratification of feeling like an internal issue can instantly be solved by a pill is so much more appealing then really anything else. Hearing suggestions what your food choices need to be or what physical movements might need to be done to alter the current pain dynamic can just be disheartening. Especially when the first option might not be the right option and the right solution might take more time to present itself due to other underlying issues.
This is where I tell people that while pain brought your journey to this point, healing will take you on a different one, but it’s a journey nonetheless. If you have been living with something for 5, 10, 15 or more years please don’t expect to be rid of it in a one hour session. Please don’t think that if you have surgery that there won’t be other issues that accompany that kind of trauma. Rehab is a necessity for those attempting to return to their former or become their best selves and in that time other therapies will need to be included just so some type of balance is achieved with the body.