Greetings to all past, present, and prospective new patients. For those of you whom I have had the privilege of participating in your "pursuit of health" endeavor, I welcome you all personally and I thank each and every one of you for entrusting me with the responsibility of invoking your innate recuperative powers through holistic health care intervention.
You have all heard me state repeatedly that "health care", as currently referenced in our society, should more appropriately be termed "disease management". Today's current model of our health care delivery system is long overdue for a complete and total makeover/overhaul, a paradigm shift, if you will. MANY other countries, that have been both the genesis and therefore the catalyst of what we term "alternative health care" here in the United States, employ methodologies that are considered standards of care and/or treatments of choice in their native homelands, that is to say, they are considered anything but "alternatives" from whence they originated. They are separate and distinct "stand-alone" allied healing arts! For example, the application of homeopathy, when prudently employed and utilized, persistently succeeds and flourishes virtually EVERYWHERE OUTSIDE the United States after having originated in Germany circa 1800 (hmmm, I wonder why that might be...), yet!, the AMA maintains its denigration and degradation of all things "alternative" as quackery, to which homeopathy "qualifies", despite its overwhelming and irrefutable success, as is the case with so many of these so-called "alternative" health care procedures. Other examples include, but are certainly not limited to, Chiropractic, Applied Kinesiology, Clinical Kinesiology, Total Body Modification, Nutritional Contact Reflexology, Acupuncture, Herbology, etc.
Conventional/orthodox/allopathic medicine is fairly miserable at their "management" of many a sick patient's complaints, as many of you can personally attest, not to mention what our horrendously appalling database of national "health care" statistics indicate. Sooooo, before I get completely carried away with this rant much further, let me elaborate for a moment on the purpose of still yet another "alternative" and/or holistic health care blog. As a direct result of countless conversations over my 25-year clinical odyssey, in conjunciton with the backdrop of humanity's never ending inundation of information so instantaneously available and accessible through technology via Al Gore's "Information Superhighway", I can honestly state that there may be more chaos and confusion today regarding "what's in my best interest regarding my health today" than ever before. Unprecedented numbers of studies on virtually any and all health related subject matter have apparent contradictions regularly, not to mention the fact that "blips" and "blurbs" render an altogether incomplete picture that a conscientiously minded health care consumer must either decipher, extrapolate, or both. For example, is exercise "good" for everyone?, coupled with the all too frequent morale destroyer of the patient that exercises as though they were training for the Olympics, yet can not "release the grease", ie BURN FAT! I like this question alot, because what needs to be determined is what "form" of exercise are we discussing? Aerobic, anaerobic, anaerobic-threshhold training, etc, and what is the best time of day to exercise, what's the best time to eat, before, during, or after exercise, and what should I eat, etc, etc, etcetera!!! Just a mere morsel of what has resulted in public mayhem regarding health and fitness.
So my MISSION STATEMENT is as follows:
I, Dr. Theodore J. Bloukos, hereby propose that a forum for open discussion that pertains to any and all health care concerns be initiated and developed, one that legally falls into my scope of practice. My ultimate objective and therefore goal is to create an informed and educated patient, one who now possesses minimal working knowledge of the holistic approach to their health care concern, enabling the patient to now favorably direct and influence their clinical decisions and therefore choices which will dictate the most favorable and efficient outcome. Achievement of the aforementioned will directly impact the quality of your individual life experience through the optimization of your genetic potential.
Bring on your topics to discuss, and time permitting, I endeavor to clarify to the best of my training and knowledge what's perplexing and in some cases vexing you! :)
May God richly bless each and everyone of you and your loved ones.
Theodore J. Bloukos, D.C., P.A.
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