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Today's medicine does not consist solely of conventional medicine. Rather, there are other branches, such as alternative medicine, naturopathy and others. Integrative medicine frees itself, so to speak, from the shackles that inevitably arise from limiting oneself to one of these branches and works in a cross-disciplinary and holistic manner. This means that an integrative therapist (be it a doctor, alternative practitioner, acupuncturist, physiotherapist, etc.) cannot solely rely on the conventional medical view of a health condition, but must also consider other treatment methods. Of course, another approach would be to find a second therapist to complement your conventional doctor, who takes the above aspects into account and accompanies the ‘conventional therapy’ accordingly. In this way, a patient can receive conventional and additional alternative medical treatment, i.e. integrative treatment, which offers considerable improvements and often even unique advantages that would not have been possible with either of the two options alone.

Oncology works with various options, such as chemotherapy, surgery or radiation, which can also be used in combination. However, chemotherapy and radiation are in themselves extremely stressful for the body and the immune system. It is therefore highly advisable for those affected to seek alternative medical support to accompany conventional chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy in order to cope with the consequences and side effects of the gruelling drugs or radiation without succumbing to them.

A good friend of mine had suffered a torn meniscus. Conventionally, this would now be treated with surgery. Here, an integrative therapist using PRP (platelet-rich plasma) and activation by laser stimulation even offers the possibility of achieving at least equivalent and often even better results without (not entirely risk-free) surgery.

Further examples, some of which I have experienced first-hand and often found astonishing at first, will be mentioned frequently in this blog.