#Integrative Healthcare

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Trending: Increase of Integrated/Complementary Healthcare, especially as treatment for chronic pain!

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Unlike conventional medicine, where a single prescription often fits the masses, homeopathy takes a personalized approach. Homeopathic practitioners delve deep into your physical, emotional, and mental state to create a remedy that resonates with your unique constitution. In a world where no two individuals are the same, this approach recognizes the significance of individuality in healthcare.

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[herbalpal]

Is integrative healthcare part of Medicare?    

Integrative healthcare is an alternative to traditional healthcare. If it falls under the healthcare practices that provide you with health benefits, it must be covered under Medical coverage. Know more on herbalpal.org!

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Anyone in any part of the health care chain who lies to a patient - especially to cover their own ass - is a terrible person and should be ejected from the field entirely. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon 4:01 PM · Jun 7, 2024

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[officialbabayaga]

when i visited my cousin after a christmas party he had 18 bottles of champagne left over so his mom made me take like 4 of them, anyway i finally opened one for the first time today because i got a 3.93 semester gpa, which has bumped my cumulative gpa up enough to be a competitive candidate for PhD programs i’m applying to in the fall. and it’s great champagne

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Madison Pauly and Henry Carnell at Mother Jones:

The conversion therapists met last November at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Behind the closed doors and drawn blinds of a Hampton Inn conference room, a middle-aged woman wearing white stockings and a Virgin Mary blue dress issued a call to arms to the 20-some people in attendance. “In our current culture, in which children are being indoctrinated with transgender belief from the moment they’re out of the womb, if we are confronted with a gender-confused child, you must help,” declared Michelle Cretella, a board member of the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity. “We must do something.” Cretella was delivering a keynote speech at the first in-person conference in four years of the Alliance, which describes itself as a “professional and scientific organization” with “Judeo-Christian values.” Its purpose: to defend and promote the practice of conversion therapy by licensed counselors.

Not that they’d call what they do “conversion therapy.” That term lacks a precise definition, but it is used colloquially to describe attempts to shift a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. In the 1960s, some psychologists tried to make gay men straight by pairing aversive stimuli, like electric shocks or chemically induced nausea, with images of gay porn—techniques that ran the risk of causing serious psychological damage even as they failed to change participants’ sexual orientation, researchers eventually concluded. Today, “conversion therapy” generally takes the form of verbal counseling. Participants are typically conservative Christians who engage voluntarily—motivated by internalized stigma, family pressure, and the belief that their feelings are incompatible with their faith. Others are children, brought into therapy by their parents.

The American Psychological Association (APA) has concluded that conversion therapy lacks “sufficient bases in scientific principles” and that people who have undergone it are “significantly more likely to experience suicidality and depression.” Similarly, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, published a report concluding that “none of the existing research supports the premise that mental or behavioral health interventions can alter gender identity or sexual orientation. Interventions aimed at a fixed outcome, such as gender conformity or heterosexual orientation…are coercive, can be harmful, and should not be part of behavioral health treatment.”

Accordingly, the Alliance and the ideas it promotes have been relegated to the scientific and political fringes. In the 2010s, as acceptance of gay rights grew rapidly, 18 states and dozens of local governments passed laws forbidding mental health professionals from attempting conversion therapy on minors. Yet by 2020, a new front had opened in the war against LGBTQ people. Republican state legislatures started passing laws targeting transgender and nonbinary children at school—restricting their access to bathrooms, barring them from participating in sports, and stopping educators from teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity. The most intense attacks have banned doctors from providing the treatments for gender dysphoria backed by all major US medical associations. Nearly 114,000 trans youth live in states where access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy has been wiped out.

Last year, I received leaked emails illustrating how these laws are crafted and pushed by a network of anti-trans activists and powerful Christian-right organizations. The Alliance is deeply enmeshed in this constellation of actors. Although small, with an annual budget of under $200,000, it provides both unsubstantiated arguments suggesting LGBTQ identities are changeable and a network of licensed counselors to lend their credibility to these efforts. Among the collaborators were David Pickup, the Alliance’s president-elect; Laura Haynes, an Alliance advocate; and Cretella, the former executive director of an anti-trans pediatrics group who described gender-affirming medical care at the Las Vegas conference as “evil” and part of a “New World Order.” (“I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” she assured attendees. “I’m just someone who has been in the battle of the culture of life versus the culture of death long enough to see the big picture.”) All three have testified before state legislatures against gender-affirming care. When a US senator introduced a pair of bills to restrict trans youth health care in 2021, his press release quoted Cretella calling gender-affirming treatments “eugenics.”

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If the Las Vegas conference made one thing clear, it’s that conversion therapy is alive and well, even in places where it’s been banned. One counselor told me he makes it a habit not to document his treatment plans in writing to avoid getting in trouble and simply treats “family dynamics” in states with conversion therapy bans. In a 2015 survey of more than 27,000 trans adults, nearly 1 in 7 said that a professional, such as a therapist, doctor, or religious adviser, had tried to make them not transgender; about half of respondents said they were minors at the time. By applying this rate to population estimates, the Williams Institute at UCLA projects that more than 135,000 trans adults nationwide have experienced some form of conversion therapy.

Despite the data, lawmakers frequently don’t believe that conversion therapy is still happening in their community, says Casey Pick, director of law and policy at the Trevor Project, the LGBTQ suicide prevention group. “We’re constantly running up against this misconception that this is an artifact of the past,” she says. So, five years ago, the Trevor Project began scouring psychologists’ websites and books, records of public testimony, and known conversion therapy referral services, looking for counselors who said they could alter someone’s gender identity or sexual orientation. As the research stretched on, Pick noticed webpages being revised to reflect changing times. “We saw many folks who seemed to leave the industry entirely,” she says. “But others changed their website, changed their keywords, [from] talking about creating ex-gays to talking about ex-trans.” Last December, Pick’s team published their report documenting active conversion therapists. They found more than 600 were licensed health care professionals and an additional 716 were clergy, lay ministers, or other unlicensed religious counselors.

According to Pick, some conversion therapists have embraced a new label for what they do: “gender exploratory therapy.” It’s a term that Cretella used to describe the approach she recommended, and unlike the other euphemisms thrown around at the conference, this has gained traction. In 2021, a group of therapists, who ranged from conflicted about medical interventions for kids with gender dysphoria to skeptical of the very concept of transgender identity, formed the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association (GETA) to promote an approach they characterize as neither conversion nor affirmation.

Some current and former leaders of the group, which claims a membership of 300 mental health providers, have been involved in influential organizations lobbying against gender-affirming care across the world, such as the Ireland-based Genspect and the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a nonprofit registered in Idaho. They’ve notched some big wins: In November 2023, the UK Council for Psychotherapy—the nation’s top professional association—declared that it was fine for counselors to take GETA’s “exploratory” approach to gender. This April, a long-awaited review of gender-related care for youth in England’s National Health Service endorsed exploratory therapy, according to Alex Keuroghlian, an associate psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School. And in the United States, in cases in which families of trans children have sued states for banning gender-affirming care, the state often calls expert witnesses who endorse “exploratory” psychotherapy as their preferred alternative treatment.

After all, the idea of “exploring” one’s gender identity sounds benign. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which issues guidelines on gender-­affirming treatment, recommends that clinicians working with teens “facilitate the exploration and expression of gender openly and respectfully so that no one particular identity is favored.” Yet, as with mindfulness, “that term has now been hijacked by folks on the other side,” says Judith Glassgold, a clinical psychologist who chaired the APA task force that in 2009 documented the lack of science behind conversion therapy.

GETA’s guidelines instruct therapists to dig deep into “the entire landscape of the young person’s life and subjective experience,” probing all possible reasons they might identify as transgender. The catch, says Glassgold, is that “exploration” means “trying to find negative reasons why someone’s diverse.” Last year, SAMHSA issued a report saying that “approaches that discourage youth from identifying as transgender or gender-diverse, and/or from expressing their gender identity” are sometimes “misleadingly referred to as ‘exploratory therapy.’” These approaches are “harmful and never appropriate,” the report concluded.

Mother Jones has a detailed report on a new form of the medically discredited practice known as conversion therapy called gender exploratory therapy. Gender exploratory therapy is the practice of making a person revert to their gender assigned at birth, which is essentially forced detransition by another name.

Read the full story at Mother Jones.

[festivalfoxes]

we should have universal basic income and free healthcare specifically so the people who make all the weird online media i enjoy will update more frequently.

[teachanarchy]

Why Going to the Pharmacy Sucks Now

[llewelynpritch]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/small-book-more-memory-nye-aneurin-bevan-honour-our-nhs-pritchard-ma-ldp7e/ PART I: 1 - 4 A human-centric, holistic, rights-based advocating regenerative culture, just transition to a regenerative society. Rapidly end fossil fuel finance by implementing climate justice valuation strategies rooted in human indigenous rights with moral compass as educational opportunities to better protect our life-sustaining systems in the cost of living climate crisis on planet Earth.

[victoriawoodhullforpresident]

For the radfems in medical fields, how do we build the argument that the body is holistic, not just a mishmash of parts? What research should we be reading? In terms of women’s health (e.g., a healthy reproductive system is part of overall health even if you don’t want kids) and health in general (e.g., the ridiculousness of treating eyes and teeth as if they’re bonus parts).

[eatclean-bewhole]

Hear this and watch it in its entirety. Chris is a cancer survivor who, like my mom, educated himself and has healed naturally. The corruption he speaks of is why I left nursing school to become a nutritionist. I mean no offense to nurses. I can appreciate the sacrifice and service. I especially appreciate the nurses trying to bridge the gap between medicine and nutrition. For me, nursing wasn’t a good fit. As I was shadowing in hospitals, it became clear that I would not be on the proactive side of health, like I intended. Once I started studying nutrition and its powerful healing effects on the human body, I became enamored. I haven’t looked back since and I will continue to do my part in getting this information out. You are only being told one side, but it’s a human right to know ALL of your healthcare, preventative, and treatment options.

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[club5five]

Spinal Decompression - Put An End to Your Spinal Problems

Millions of Americans suffer from chronic back pain every year, limiting their quality of life and mobility. Many persons with back pain also report experiencing a range of emotional consequences, including anxiety, despair, and a general sense of malaise. Many people's daily activities are impacted by their constant back pain.

A person's ability to go about their daily life and fulfill their professional obligations may be severely impaired by persistent back discomfort. Fortunately, there are a variety of cutting-edge treatments in integrative health services for spine pain and discomfort now accessible. Find out if spinal decompression therapy can relieve your back pain by reading up on it.

What Exactly Is Spinal Decompression?

Spinal decompression tables and cutting-edge computer technology are used in a non-invasive mechanical traction method known as non-surgical spinal decompression which is a part of integrative healthcare service. The gentle bending of the spine relieves stress on the spinal discs and the nerves that run through them.

Spinal decompression therapy is a non-invasive alternative to traditional back surgery that provides fast and long-lasting relief from a wide range of causes of back pain.

Functionalities of Spinal Decompression 

Traditional providers of such treatments include chiropractors and osteopaths since they rely on the same core idea of spinal traction. Injured, sick, or slipped discs may heal more quickly if spinal decompression is performed. Since the pressure within the disc is reduced with spinal decompression, more healing nutrients are able to reach the damaged disc and speed up the recovery process.

The creation of negative pressure between the discs is another objective of nonsurgical spinal decompression and integrative healthcare service, as it can aid in the repositioning of slipping, bulging, or otherwise misplaced discs and disc material. The physician can perform spinal decompression on a patient while they are wearing their regular clothes by placing the harness over the patient's clothing in the pelvic area.

Once the patient is safely secured in the harness, they can choose whether to lie on their back or stomach on the operating table. The doctor will tailor the therapy on a computer to the specific needs of the patient. How many visits to the clinic will be required is another factor the doctor will weigh in on.

How Effective Is Spinal Decompression Therapy?

Spinal decompression therapy for herniated discs has been shown to have a high success rate, that is 86% of patients reported satisfactory or outstanding results. Nonsurgical spinal decompression therapy of integrative health services has been discovered to be the only method of creating negative pressure within the spine, whereas conventional chiropractic and physical therapy may provide temporary relief.

In the past, when the body sensed a pulling feeling, it would tighten the muscles around the discs and vertebrae to prevent further damage. The proprioceptive response describes what's happening here. Spinal decompression therapy, however, can avoid this instant response by gradually elongating the spine and allowing it to relax over extended periods of time.

Because there is no stress or strain on the spinal discs during these activation and rest periods, muscular spasms or a muscle-guarding response is not triggered. The pressure, pain, and discomfort caused by a variety of spinal problems can often be relieved with spinal decompression therapy of integrative healthcare service.

Look for such organizations that offer integrative healthcare services to get spinal decompression therapy. It is recommended to discuss with the professionals and get a customized service as per your needs and preferences.

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What are the different approaches in integrative healthcare?

Integrative healthcare is a combination of traditional medicine and an alternative approach to healthcare. The several different approaches to holistic healthcare include hypnosis, breathing, exercise, acupuncture, yoga, and therapies. Visit herbalpal.org to learn about integrative healthcare in detail.

[firespirited]

I’ve never feared the Roko’s basilisk or Skynet, the same way Del Toro’s not scared of the horror monsters.

because whether it comes from AI or outer space, we’re going to organize the anthill into math patterns and gifts and we’ll tame each other like The Little Prince and the fox... or not

If after all that it eats us, or explodes the planet to make an intergalactic highway, that was going to happen anyway.

It’s like in Star Trek, The one with the Whales, all we can do is work on having a welcoming environment and something to show for the traits that make us different from other apes.

Besides, I trust logic based sentience over our power-mad billionaires any day.

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