Why you should have a team of therapists and practitioners.

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.

It's A Journey

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.

For example if surgery is done on one leg, the other leg will be bearing the brunt of the weight until the other is completely healed and able to share some of the weight. In that process though balance will be completely thrown off. One leg will have doubled the amount of work to be done while the other might completely lose it’s ability to do work for some time. So, strength training will need to be done on both legs, in different frequencies to eventually find balance while soft tissue work will need to be done on both so the trauma isn’t potentially shifted from one leg to the other simply for neglect.
Healing is a journey in finding balance throughout this life experience and it is incredibly difficult to do it alone. This is why a team is key. Great things are always done with a team, even if there is only one person’s name on the trophy. Whether actors, musicians, artists, athletes, families, businesses or whatever you can think of, there were others that participated in assisting their ascension to greatness. Someone makes the paints and canvases. Others shoot the film, balance the color, select the music and even participate in the performance so the actor/actress can be seen at their best. Even the best musicians have a group that they are a part of and in the modern world someone is making the tracks, doing the mixing and mastering of the final project. No one is out there doing everything completely on their own. So why should you? This is why you should build your therapy team.

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