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Medicine Treatment Models

Summary

WHICH WILL BEST SERVE YOU?

Treatment of Back and Neck Pain is anything but an exact science and traditionally; resolution of back pain conditions has a dismal failure rate. Normal orthodox medicine treatment protocols are expensive, dangerous, and in many cases resulted in no gain for the patient, often producing additional or “new” pain.
Natural medicine says the body can usually heal itself, especially when given the right tools. Orthodox medicine says it can't, that it requires powerful interventions. Orthodox medicine believes it "understands" the body well enough to chemically take control of parts of it "overpowering it for its own good."

You have to determine which model or combination of models can give you the best possible long-term resolution to your pain and pain condition. It is not an easy decision.

Today you are able to take advantage of treatment with Orthodox Medicine, Natural Medicine, or a New Medicine Paradigm, which is a combination of both models.

Treating Back and Neck Pain Is A Double Edge Sword
Treating the Pain -– Then Find and Treat the Real Underlying Cause
Finding a medicine model that can do both is common sense, but not necessarily an easy process. Each person is different, with different needs, beliefs, specialized health problems, and medical coverage restrictions.

Neither of the two major medical models is able to do everything. Each is unique and specialized in its own way, with differences in their philosophy; their choices for treatment; and their ability and methods to diagnose any underlying condition. The closest you will be able to come to a melding of both models exists in the New Medical Paradigm – the Natural (Holistic) MD, and/or “Functional Medicine.”

When making the decision of which model “fits” your needs best you should look for answers to these types of questions, especially in relation to the doctor you choose:

1. Do they treat the pain and do they treat it adequately

2. Do their treatment methods treat the symptom causing the pain while looking beyond to imbalances that may be the real cause?

3. What is the actual success rate for their treatments?

4. Do they explain your range of choices for treatments without attempting to scare or pressure you into one treatment process?

5. Are you expected to be an active or passive patient in your treatment process? Who is in charge of your “health” care?

6. Who do you want to be in charge of your health care?

7. Are you afforded the time you need to discuss everything of importance to you during your office visits.

8. Is your doctor open to looking at Natural (Holistic) treatments you bring to his/her attention?

9. Is your doctor knowledgeable about Natural (Holistic) treatments? Are they willing to learn?

10. Do they assist you to locate and participate in such treatments?

11. Is your doctor legally able to implement any alternative treatments?

12. Can your doctor test for metabolic imbalances to help identify underlying health problems and correct them. Or, test to prevent the development of future diseases?

13. If you choose a mix of models will your primary care physician willingly participate or collaborate with the other model’s physician if you ask them to?

14. Do they manage your care with compassion and willingly look for every aspect that may be contributing to your pain or pain condition? Are you treated with respect at all times?

15. What diagnostic tests and treatments are covered or not covered by your medical insurance.

Basic Principles that Underlie the Models
Orthodox Medical Model, and the Natural (Holistic) Model practice their medicine based upon diametrically opposed principles
Orthodox medicine has evolved from its founding principles into a model that is today, based on isolated disease care.

Natural Medicine’s founding principles always were, and are today, still based on health care. It believes the body can usually heal itself, especially so when given the right tools. Orthodox medicine says it can't, that it requires powerful interventions.

In our evaluation of these opposing principles, we do not provide long lists of drugs, or types of operations for your medical model treatment. Nor will you find lists of vitamins, minerals, herbals, and supplements for pain or physical therapies used to treat conditions by the natural model. This is a simple evaluation of these models – a little of their history, a look at differences in their philosophy, practice protocols, training and licensing.

Reviewing the Orthodox Medicine Model
Reviewing the Natural (Holistic) Model
Reviewing the Natural (Holistic) MD Medicine Model

Continuing the Summary

Confusing Choices
Today both fields of medicine orthodox or natural present people a wild jungle, full of disinformation, unsubstantiated claims, junk science, and marketing hype.

In recent years, there has been a significant movement away from Orthodox medicine toward Natural (Holistic) medicine. There are numerous reasons for this switch and we discuss a few of them within the above links.

It is not our place to promote one model over another. Issues of health/disease care that are concerned with relieving peoples’ back and neck pain, while maintaining their health, are the goals we are striving toward.

It is unfortunate as we gathered these facts for presentation, other fact finding information about the orthodox model was being brought to light and we would be irresponsible not to include that information. Presentation of these facts made it impossible to appear unbiased.

We recognized the inherent right of everyone to make his or her own choices. We hope we have provided enough information about these 2 basic medical models to help you make informed choices. In the end it is about your back and neck pain relief, long-term health, and the best way for YOU to achieve both.

A Quick Summary of Recent Fact Finding Information
For years, the Natural Model has taken big hits, around its credibility, from Orthodox medicine, the Pharmaceutical industry and through governmental legislation, influenced by the huge finances of the medical/pharma lobby groups.

Recently, however Orthodox medicine has taken some substantial hits to its own credibility - from every direction, including their own doctors and scientists. Headlines identifying “Doctors as the 3rd Leading Cause of Death.” Questionable pharmaceutical industry practices with their research, marketing, and truthfulness in reporting of the safety of their drugs. Millions of people are negatively affected each year by drug side effects bad enough to send them to hospital and a minimum of 106,000 US people a year dying from these “safe” prescription drugs. Toxic chemical accidents occurring at pharmaceutical drug factories, which have negatively affected thousands of people’s health, are also a part of the public record.

There is an even more important question. If the orthodox medical model is the best model, why do they need to spend billions of dollars to prove how bad and ineffective natural medicine is – go so far as to lobby for laws to outlaw it? If it is really that bad? Surely, the people would find out quick enough and never again use that type of medical care. If a business can’t “deliver the goods” it will go bankrupt. Isn’t that what our economy is supposed to be based on – healthy competition?

Medicine is big business and like any healthy business, it is all about profit, profit, profit. It seems that their highhanded tactics only prove how afraid they are of their competition - and the dollars they spend every year to run that competition down says they must be very afraid.

Might there be a good reason for their fear?
Stripped of Our Rights
It is unfortunate that Orthodox medicine and the pharmaceutical industry has managed to take away peoples right for self-determination by enforcing such a monopoly. Especially when it comes to deciding what health care people feel is best for them. The removal of self-determination is accomplished, in part, by not reimbursing medical treatment or supplement costs for natural model health care. How did something like this manage to become a part of our “health” care system?

The Good News Is –
Both of these models have much to contribute to health and thankfully, they are moving in the direction of joining that knowledge for the benefit of humankind. For instance you will now find many orthodox medical physicians – returning for years more education in order to be able to practice natural medicine enabling them to take the best of both philosophies and knowledge and putting them to work for you.