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Integrative Health Care Blog
Helping you navigate the path toward your best health.
Break your Pain Cycle
Most people experience pain regularly. This pain settles into predictable cycles and informs our daily habits, to the point that we often get used to working around it. We think it is just the price we pay for being active, or getting older, or having kids. This is wrong.
The biggest barrier to treating your pain is how hard you are trying to ignore that it exists.
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Integrative health care can support you by treating pain, optimizing your relationship with food and exercise, reducing stress, and rebalancing the systems of the body to improve sleep, digestion, and energy levels.
Low Back Pain
Low back pain treatments work with soft tissues and the nervous system to correct imbalances and address dysfunction. Bodywork, acupuncture, counseling, and somatics are all effective, and can be part of a comprehensive treatment plan to address the specific causes of your low back pain.
Integrative Health for Chronic Pain (video)
Dr. Gurjeet Birdee explains how Integrative Health Care treats Chronic Pain: Chronic Pain is a complex condition where the body has some kind of injury that is taking a long time to heal. But it is not just the tissue that needs to heal, because the brain begins to...
Restorative Movement & Stress Relief
Restorative practices balance the effects of stress on the body. Stress serves an important role in keeping us alive through threatening circumstances, but it is also a complex biological response that is designed to be temporary and flushed out of the system when...
Treating Sciatica
Sciatica is pain from the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lumbar spine, through the hip, and down the leg to the foot. The pain can be felt anywhere along the path of the nerve, and can range from minor to severe. Treatment for sciatica involves working with the...
Relief from Plantar Fasciitis
If your feet hurt when you wake up in the morning, especially in the heel, then you probably have plantar fasciitis. It is a symptom of larger problems in how you walk, run, and stand. Though there are many ways to reduce the pain in the short term, effective...
Hemp Extract and CBD
Hemp extract, or CBD, is cannabidiol, which is one of the many compounds that come from the cannabis plant. It is technically legal in all 50 states, but is unregulated, which means that you can’t trust all the labels on CBD products and it is important to check into...
How Walking Correctly Treats Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a very common health issue, and it tends to be something that people deal with for long stretches of time, sometimes for years or even decades. The conversation around low back pain often sounds mechanical, as if certain body parts are...