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WE HELP YOU REGAIN YOUR HEALTH

You will find the techniques we use are notably different than traditional Western medicine, yet have proven time and time again to help individuals restore their bodies back to optimum health. Everyone is familiar with the traditional medical model in some fashion or another, whether from a visit to the M.D., D.O. or, a visit to the emergency room or urgent care.

The traditional medical model in the West treats chronic health problems by reducing the,”symptoms” using prescriptive drugs and surgery.

Whether the symptoms are a chronic illness like diabetes, an autoimmune disease, headaches, arthritis, an everyday cold, allergies, or something more severe such as high blood pressure or a heart condition…the treatments are primarily drugs and surgery.

When we treat the symptoms, but not the underlying cause of the condition, we never really eliminate the problem or restore an individual back to optimum health. When we treat the whole body with cleanses, healthy supports and integration of multiple modalities, our bodies will respond by renewing itself down to the DNA. Thus, health, balance and peace is the new mode of operandum.  

Therapies at 3 Rivers Health Center include:

·       Acupressure - is an alternative medicine technique similar in principle to acupuncture. It is based on the concept of life energy which flows through "meridians" in the body. In treatment, physical pressure is applied to acupuncture points with the aim of clearing blockages in these meridians. Pressure may be applied by hand, by elbow, or with various devices.

·       Alternative cancer treatments - include diet and exercise, cleansing, herbs, devices, and manual procedures.

·       Applied kinesiology -  is a technique in alternative medicine claimed to be able to diagnose illness or choose treatment by testing muscles for strength and weakness.

·       Aromatherapy -  uses plant materials and aromatic plant oils, including essential oils, and other aroma compounds for improving psychological or physical well-being.

·       Bach flower therapy -  are solutions of brandy and water - the water containing extreme dilutions of flower material developed by Edward Bach, an English homeopath, in the 1930s. Bach claimed that dew found on flower petals retain imagined healing properties of that plant

·       BEMER Physical Vascular Therapy (or PEMF- BEMER therapy) is an alternative medical treatment based on electromagnetic therapy. BEMER devices stimulate and increase blood flow to healthy muscles for improved performance and recovery. Enhanced local circulation is achieved by delivering a patented therapeutic signal using a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) technology. This ensures muscles are supplied with ample oxygen and nutrients.

·       Chinese medicine - is a style of traditional medicine informed by modern medicine but built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine.

·       Colloidal silver therapy - colloid consisting of silver particles suspended in liquid) and formulations containing silver salts were used by physicians in the early 20th century, 

·       Creative visualization - is the cognitive process of purposefully generating visual mental imagery, with eyes open or closed, simulating or recreating visual perception, in order to maintain, inspect, and transform those images.

·       Crystal healing - technique that employs stones and crystals. Adherents of the technique claim that these have healing powers. 

·       Dietary supplements -  is intended to provide nutrients that may otherwise not be consumed in sufficient quantities. Supplements as generally understood include vitamins, minerals, fiber, fatty acids, or amino acids, among other substances. 

·       Ear candling -  is an alternative medicine practice claimed to improve general health and well-being by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

·       Energy therapies - According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), this category of complementary therapies involves the use of various types of energy fields. In general, the goal of energy therapies is to bring energy into the patient or balance the energy within a patient. There are many kinds of energy therapies, some which use treatments such as light, sound, and magnets.

·       Reiki - A Japanese form of alternative medicine believed to involve transferring chi through one's palms. Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive.

·       Energy medicine - is both a complement to other approaches to medical care and a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance.

·       Fasting - is a willing abstinence or reduction from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time.

·       Feng shui - A system of laws considered to govern spacial arrangement and orientation in relation to the flow of energy. (qi), and those favorable or unfavorable effects are taken into account when siting and designing spaces.

·       Five elements - It is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between internal organs, and from the succession of political regimes to the properties of medicinal drugs. 

·       Functional medicine - a form of alternative medicine which proponents say focuses on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune systems.

·       Herbalism - is the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes or for supplementing a diet. Plants have been the basis for medical treatments through much of human history, and such traditional medicine is still widely practiced today.

·       Herbal therapy - Herbal supplements may contain entire plants or plant parts. Herbal supplements come in all forms: dried, chopped, powdered, capsule, or liquid, and can be used in various ways, including: Swallowed as pills, powders, or tinctures. Brewed as tea. Applied to the skin as gels, lotions, or creams. Added to bath water.

·       Herbology - is the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes or for supplementing a diet. Plants have been the basis for medical treatments through much of human history, and such traditional medicine is still widely practiced today.

·       Holistic living -  is the idea that systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not just as a collection of parts.

·       Holistic medicine - is a term used to describe therapies that attempt to treat the patient as a whole person. That is, instead of treating an illness, as in orthodox allopathy, holistic medicine looks at an individual's overall physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing before recommending treatment.

·       Homeopathy - created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.

·       Home remedy - is a treatment to cure a disease or ailment that employs certain spices, vegetables, or other common items. Home remedies may or may not have medicinal properties that treat or cure the disease or ailment in question, as they are typically passed along by laypersons.

·       Iridology - Practitioners match their observations to iris charts, which divide the iris into zones that correspond to specific parts of the human body. Iridologists see the eyes as "windows" into the body's state of health.

·       Light therapy - classically referred to as heliotherapy — consists of exposure to daylight or to specific wavelengths of light using polychromaticpolarised light, lasers, light-emitting diodes, fluorescent lamps, dichroic lamps or very bright, full-spectrum light. The light is administered for a prescribed amount of time and, in some cases, at a specific time of day.

·       Meditation - Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.

·       Music therapy - is the use of interventions to accomplish individual goals within a therapeutic relationship by a professional who has completed an approved music therapy program.

·       Numerology -  is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s. NLP's creators claim there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns learned through experience (programming), and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.

·       Orthomolecular medicine - aims to maintain human health through nutritional supplementation. The concept builds on the idea of an optimum nutritional environment in the body and suggests that diseases reflect deficiencies in this environment. Treatment for disease, according to this view, involves attempts to correct "imbalances or deficiencies based on individual biochemistry" by use of supposedly "natural" substances such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements and fatty acids.

·       Pranic healing -  can heal ailments in the body by contributing to the person's energy field. Sui has also stated that pranic healing is like acupuncture and yoga in that it treats the "energy body" which in turn affects the "physical body".

·       Traditional Chinese medicine -  is a style of traditional medicine informed by modern medicine but built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy.

·   Uropathy - can involve congenital or acquired dysfunction of the urinary system. Kidney diseases are normally investigated and treated by nephrologists, while the specialty of urology deals with problems in the other organs. Diseases of other bodily systems also have a direct effect on urogenital function. For instance, it has been shown that protein released by the kidneys in diabetes mellitus sensitizes the kidney to the damaging effects of hypertension.

·       Visualization - A mental image or mental picture is the representation in a person's mind of the physical world outside of that person. It is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses. There are sometimes episodes, particularly on falling asleep (hypnagogic imagery) and waking up (hypnopompic), when the mental imagery, being of a rapid, phantasmagoric and involuntary character, defies perception, presenting a kaleidoscopic field, in which no distinct object can be discerned. Mental imagery can sometimes produce the same effects as would be produced by the behavior or experience imagined.