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What are Integrative Health Centers?

March 7, 2024 by Dr. Daniel Hoover

Integrative health centers are known to attempt to provide their patients with as many options for recovery as possible. This can include several traditional Eastern medicines combined with modern Western practices. While modern medicine has its place in recovery, it has a few drawbacks as well, such as expensive and invasive surgeries or addictive pharmaceuticals. Integrative health centers such as SOHMA emphasize holistic care, meaning their approach aims to better your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

SOHMA Integrative Medicine is one of these locations. Today, we’ll go over what integrative health centers are and how they can help you return to balance and back to play.

Services Provided at Integrative Health Centers

As previously stated, integrative health centers provide holistic wellness care. This means an excellent integrative health center offers many therapies and treatment plans for each patient to help them on their journey to recovery, all in one location. For example, a patient may require physical therapy to recover from a knee injury, and complementary therapies such as deep tissue massage or acupuncture can help in the recovery. This is a simple example; many combinations of complementary therapies can be used to help you recover.

Interactive health centers don’t only help recover from injuries. It’s not uncommon for people to visit integrative health centers to help them prevent or maintain wellness and balance through other forms, such as IV therapy or Tai Chi. While our goal is to return you to wellness and balance without invasive procedures, a patient may still require surgery. For these cases, integrative health centers can be a great place to prepare your body for the surgery. Integrative health centers can help you recover post-surgery to regain your strength and balance.

What are the Advantages of Integrative Health Centers

One of the primary advantages of integrative health centers is their patient-centered care. This means that every patient has an individualized plan. Whether you need cupping therapy or herbal supplements, no two patients are given the same treatment. We consider your lifestyle, age, fitness level, and medical history to provide a unique plant suited to your needs.

Not only do integrative health centers provide unique and individualized wellness plans for each patient, but they also excel in preventive healthcare and proactive wellness. You don’t need to treat an ailment if you can prevent it. Typically, with your personalized care plan, you’ll be given resources to practice at home. This isn’t solely better than what ails you. It’s also to prevent that ailment from affecting you in the future. We at SOHMA advocate for proactive wellness, empowering you to take charge of your well-being before a health issue arises. This includes recommending lifestyle choices to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

Future Trends and Developments

At SOHMA Integrative Medicine, we combine Eastern and Western practices to help you recover. This means that although we use many traditional modalities, we aren’t ignorant of the fact that many modern techniques have developed over the years. While conventional medicine has been used for thousands of years, it can continue to evolve when combined with modern techniques. 

A simple example is using pumps on plastic cups to know how much pressure is being placed on each area being treated with cupping therapy compared to using fire, horns, or glass jars. In modern days, we use disposable needles for acupuncture, whereas in the past, they were reused. This dramatically reduces the potential for infections and other risks associated with traditional medicine. Time continues to change, and we need to adapt to it. For this reason, we don’t shy away from modern treatment options such as Innovative cell therapy or cold laser therapy. 

Take the Next Step In Improving Your Health by Contacting SOHMA Integrative Medicine

Our goal is to help you improve your health. You can contact us and ask about the Myers Cocktail, IV Therapy, Chiropractic care, or how our other health service lines can help you with your journey to improved health. 

Located in Long Beach, CA, we help individuals from the surrounding cities.

We look forward to helping you take the next step in your journey to better health.

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