the next step in changing healthcare: GETTING I
t is possible that, in order to move to the next phase in the grassroots process to change American healthcare, further pulling it out of its multi-decade long downward spiral, we
may have to draw a clearer line of distinction between healthcare as it ought to be and the disease management system that cur- rently and unfortunately dominates American healthcare to the tune of outrageous costs and statistically dreadful results. There is so much circular talk in our society today that rarely yields the results that we need, so perhaps instead of trying to, with natural, holistic health principles, infiltrate a broken system and how the public views it, we should spend that energy creating a new, separate system altogether that, in time, the general population would learn to understand through long-term education and experience. Health should be taught right alongside reading, writing, and
causes any STRUCTURE to break down Pain
Numbness/Tingling Dizziness Arthritis Headaches
The body’s foundation is the head and
starts to break down.
Logical. Simple.
Effective.
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upper cervical spine. When it shifts out of balance, the body
Ignoring the FOUNDATION
arithmetic so that we can rebuild the general knowledge-base necessary to properly take care of ourselves; if it was, then kids would, by the time that their ages hit double-digit years, be able to grasp the essentials of healthy living as easily as they would be able to read instructions or divide thirty by three. Such fundamen- tal education would organically shift people, generation by generation, toward approaching health like they would other necessities instead of prioritizing it like a luxury, simultaneously moving societal momentum away from our modern trends toward letting our bodies break-down for years without consistent atten- tion paid to maintaining optimal health and later hoping for an instant gratification-based quick fix when various levels of suffer- ing begin. To those ends, it would be helpful for all of us in the holistic health community, patients and practitioners alike, to simplify our collective definition of health and to organize our overall com- prehension of the things necessary to obtain and maintain health; it would be a key step in the direction of uniting the various schools of thought. The World Health Organization defines health as a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not mere- ly the absence of disease and infirmity; let us build off of that. Each of the three core elements can be broken down into sub- categories. Take, for instance, the integrity of the human frame, including the bones and the muscles that allow them to move, as a sub-category of physical well-being; the health of the muscu- loskeletal system dictates, in part, how physically active we can be and how optimally we feel, meaning therefore that poorer health of the bones and muscles ultimately causes corresponding symptoms and less physical activity. Were we to define the integ- rity of the human frame as a state of structural balance, proper movement, normal tone, and minimal symptoms, then we could start to better reason how to ensure it and to properly designate the practitioners most helpful in each area. Structural balance is the most basic piece of the healthy hu-
man frame's puzzle, as proper movement, normal tone, and minimal symptoms cannot be sustainably achieved without it. Thus, it is vital that human anatomy be taught to everyone in a way that directly associates it with being healthy, specifically as it pertains to one of the most commonly misinterpreted aspects of the body: the location of its structural foundation. The human body being built from the brain-down, the foundation of the body is at the top instead of the bottom. Now, if we want to merely assess structural balance, we can observe whether or not the
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