Conquer Arthritis Now – Some More Considerations

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Chris Callahan, who is a medical researcher and the author of Conquer Arthritis Now informs us that he’s not a doctor. He has always been interested in health and wellness, but he has always been a little squeamish about blood and therefore he knew that a career in the field of traditional medicine wasn’t for him.

In college he picked a major known as Health Promotion and Lifestyle Management. It was the perfect course of study for him, but didn’t lead to the perfect job.

He did some work in health-related sales. It’s a highly competitive field, ruthless and even cutthroat. And, as I’m sure you can guess,he found himself being pushed more and more to worry about ‘profits’ instead of ‘people’.

Luckily he met an old friend awho told him that he had found real happiness working in the world of ‘alternative’ and ‘complementary’ medicine. He was now devoted to holistic healing.

Even if he was skeptical that ‘alternative medicine’ was just another name for snake oil he decided to know more and learn more about:

Alternative Healthcare: any healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine, including yoga, chiropractic care, biofeedback, acupuncture, etc.
Complementary Healthcare: the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine, taking a ‘best of both worlds’ approach to wellness.
Holistic Healthcare: a term used to describe therapies that attempt to treat the patient as a whole person by looking at an individual’s overall physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being before recommending treatment.

Unlike traditional medicine which focuses primarily on ‘cure,’ holistic healthcare gives equal importance to ‘cure’ and ‘prevention.’ Complementary Medicine gives Patients treatment options with no side effects that are as effective and sometimes more effective than traditional medical care

When another good friend was diagnosed with OA – osteoarthritis and began to suffer from the crippling effects of arthritis, he knew that it was time to take his interest to the next level.

His friend had been a tough competitor on the athletic field, a guy who lived by the credo “Quitters never win and winners never quit.”

When they saw that traditional medicine had nothing to offer his friend to help him halt cartilage degeneration or repair his damaged cartilage, they decided to investigate alternative holistic treatment.

Today he’s again active, healthy, pain-free, and thinking about running his first marathon.

The book Conquer Arthritis Now is based on their experience and suggests many ways to use alternative medicine to treat and conquer Arthritis.