Health is a continually changing process of adaptation. According to the World Health Organisation, health is defined as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, i.e. the individual is a unit of body, mind, emotional factors, patterns of relationships, habits and other factors that feed on and coexist with each other, generating a constant adaptation of the individual to the changing needs of society. man in the middle.
All health professionals have felt the impotence at some time when we have seen how many of our patients refused to improve significantly despite the application of supposedly effective conventional treatments. For this reason, as a physiotherapist I began to feel the need to broaden my vision and investigate the causes of health problems and physical pain, and it is on this path of search that I came across Holistic Physiotherapy, which is becoming more and more well-known and in demand by the population, as it attempts to address the health of the person from a more holistic approach, having as its main objective the body-mind and spirit well-being of the individual, looking at the patient as a whole.
For this physiotherapy the individual is not only made up of muscles and bones. Habits and emotions play an important role in our body, they take shape and manifest themselves. The body sometimes has a symptom in one place, but this does not mean that this is the source of the problem. For example, low back pain is not only about pure physical pain, but also about a person's living habits, the stress and worries they are experiencing, etc.
Therefore, the holistic physiotherapy not only deals with treating the symptoms with classic treatments such as, for example, massages and manipulations in the area of pain to be treated, but also expands its vision to an emotional level, complementing the above with other alternative techniques such as acupuncture, Myofascial, Neural and visceral therapy, Relaxation Techniques, etc., concerned with the well-being in relation to the daily life of that person, trying to restore the balance and energy of the body and maximising the body's self-healing mechanisms to achieve a global approach to the person.
Thanks to this Bio-psycho-social treatment approach of the individual, I continue to verify daily in my clients that in most cases both the results and the benefits are much faster than if I only used conventional physiotherapy techniques, because as soon as the person is aware that an altered or stressful emotional situation may be one of the possible causes of their back problem, it is at that moment when the healing process begins, and although the emotional problem does not disappear, its somatisation may do so, avoiding the appearance of recurring physical pain.
Therefore, I believe that in the healthcare field we all face the challenge of incorporating increasingly holistic approaches in our treatments through different techniques that further improve the effectiveness of our work, trying to teach patients to take responsibility and awareness of their problems, trying to expand our area of action to all those factors that influence the functional capacity and movement of our patients, and to work as far as we can in the 4 dimensions of the individual. (physical body, emotional body, mental and energetic body), Each professional should always deal with the aspect for which he/she is prepared and consider the possibility of referring that which exceeds his/her competences, in order to try to ensure that the assessment and treatment is as complete as possible and appropriate for each person.
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