UNDERSTANDING HOLISTIC ALTERNATIVES

The professionals at Newton Health & wellness Holistic Alternatives treats each patient with  natural, minimally invasive therapies, integrated for a truly holistic approach to health care. Our integrated team of health care professionals can help you achieve a balanced, healthy lifestyle through the education, treatment and support available at Newton Health and Wellness. Our integrated approach to health care treats the whole person, not simply symptoms and disease. Our holistic health care professionals do more than just identify and treat a specific ailment. They are trained to look at the various aspects of your lifestyle and health issues, and design a course of treatment to help you reach your optimum level of wellness.

Our holistic approach is to offer the most current, credible, time tested, natural, minimally invasive therapies, integrated to help you achieve a painfree, balanced, healthy lifestyle utilizing:

Chiropractic
Accupuncture
Massage
Holistic Health (through whole foods)
Hypnosis
Yoga (Kundalini)
GYROTONICS Expansion System
Pilates
Physical Rehabilitation
Smoking Cessation
Pain Management, (Non surgical, Non Pharmaceutical)
IDD Therapy Non Surgical Spinal Disc Decompression

We believe that health is something that is often lost to neglect, excess or deficiency and an accumulation of stress and imbalance in excess of the individuals tolerances. Our approach assess’ each individuals accumulation of physical, emotional and chemical stress. Our work is directed restoring balance and eliminating accumulated stress that frequently presents as pain, fatigue and disease. Our goal is to restore each individuals health to a point far before pre-disease, pre-condition, pre-symptom status.

Holistic medicine is the art and science of healing the whole person: the mind, the body and the spirit. The practice of holistic medicine integrates conventional and alternative therapies to prevent and treat diseases and promote optimal health. This condition of holistic health can be defined as the ultimate free flow of life energy forces throughout the mind, body and spirit. At Newton Health and Wellness we strive to combine the services we offer to heal the whole person.
 

 

Holistic Medicine

Conventional Medicine

Philosophy

 Based on the integration of allopathic (MD), osteopathic (DO), naturopathic (ND), energy, and ethno-medicine. Based on allopathic medicine.

Primary Objective of Care

 To promote optimal health and as a by-product, to prevent and treat disease. To cure or mitigate disease

Primary Method of Care

 Empower patients to heal themselves by addressing the causes of their disease and facilitating lifestyle changes through health promotion. Focus on the elimination of physical symptoms.

Diagnosis

 Evaluate the whole person through holistic medical history, holistic health score sheet, physical exam, lab data. Evaluate the body with history, physical exam, lab data.

Primary Care Treatment Options

Infulencing the body, mind, and spirit with: diet, exercise, physical conditioning, environmental measures and lifestyle considerations.

 Drugs and surgery

Secondary Care Treatment Options

Botanical (herbal) medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, manual medicine, biomolecular therapies, physical therapy, drugs, and surgery.

 Diet, exercise, physical therapy, and stress management.

Weaknesses

 Shortage of holistic physicians and training programs; time-intensive, requiring a commitment to a healing process, not a quick-fix.

Ineffective in preventing and curing chronic disease; expensive.

Strengths

 Teaches patients to take responsibility for their own health, and in so doing is: cost-effective in treating both acute and chronic illness; therapeutic in preventing and treating chronic disease; essential in creating optimal health. Highly therapeutic in treating both acute and life-threatening illness and injuries.