THE BONE DENSITY PROGRAM: CHOOSING THE RIGHT PRACTITIONER

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To assemble the right health care team to ensure you get the best overall care, you must act as coordinator to make sure each practitioner has all the relevant information, and that they communicate with each other as necessary. You must tell each professional who else you are working with and what strategies you are using. If you don’t tell your cardiologist you’ve been seeing a homeopath, you won’t be able to maximize either approach. If your homeopath tries to convince you homeopathic remedies are all you need, and that whatever your cardiologist advises will only interfere with the treatment, you need a different homeopath. Likewise, if your cardiologist has a blanket “quackery” response for any suggestion of complementary methods, you need a different cardiologist. Otherwise, you have many lenses working on your behalf, but they are all looking at their own little piece and never merging into one view. That’s certainly not integrative or complementary or holistic, and you won’t reap all the benefits of coordinated health care.
Conventional medicine has brought us many wonderful medicines and technologies. I wouldn’t want to diagnose or treat low bone density without access to DEXA machines and pharmaceutical options like raloxifene. But I wouldn’t want to do without qi gong or nutritional supplements, either. Both conventional and “alternative” therapies have their limits, and using them in true complementary fashion—according to their strengths and your beliefs and preferences—is the only way to achieve optimal health care and optimal health.
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THE BONE DENSITY PROGRAM: CHOOSING THE RIGHT PRACTITIONERTo assemble the right health care team to ensure you get the best overall care, you must act as coordinator to make sure each practitioner has all the relevant information, and that they communicate with each other as necessary. You must tell each professional who else you are working with and what strategies you are using. If you don’t tell your cardiologist you’ve been seeing a homeopath, you won’t be able to maximize either approach. If your homeopath tries to convince you homeopathic remedies are all you need, and that whatever your cardiologist advises will only interfere with the treatment, you need a different homeopath. Likewise, if your cardiologist has a blanket “quackery” response for any suggestion of complementary methods, you need a different cardiologist. Otherwise, you have many lenses working on your behalf, but they are all looking at their own little piece and never merging into one view. That’s certainly not integrative or complementary or holistic, and you won’t reap all the benefits of coordinated health care.Conventional medicine has brought us many wonderful medicines and technologies. I wouldn’t want to diagnose or treat low bone density without access to DEXA machines and pharmaceutical options like raloxifene. But I wouldn’t want to do without qi gong or nutritional supplements, either. Both conventional and “alternative” therapies have their limits, and using them in true complementary fashion—according to their strengths and your beliefs and preferences—is the only way to achieve optimal health care and optimal health.*7\228\2*

March 18, 2011 · Posted in Healthy bones Osteoporosis Rheumatic