Patient Care Overview
Good health, the freedom to live vibrantly, love passionately and laugh heartily,
is our greatest treasure. Our bodies are designed to be healthy and self healing. The problem
occurs when accidents, stress or lifestyle exceeds the tolerance of our bodies and damage occurs.
When there is a healing deficit, chronic pain, dysfunction or death can be the consequence. Most
of the major illnesses that we are plagued with (heart disease, cancer, diabetes) are the result
of our bodies being unable to maintain its adaptation (homeostasis) to a hostile environment
(poor diet, sedentary lifestyle and stressed out living).
We, the doctors of Peterson Clinic, can heal nothing. Our goal is to find the roadblock that is preventing your body’s innate
healing response. The story (history) of your problem may be traumatic or insidious. You may have seen many doctors with different
diagnosis and recommendations. We will take a fresh perspective on your health problem. Your return to health is our greatest
priority, and motivates our quest to find the roadblocks that is detouring your healing.
We have learned that what you think you have may not be what you have. Our complex bodies have a way of integrating our lives
so that the expression of a problem in the shoulder may represent many problems: structural, gall bladder, heart, infection, allergy/autoimmune
or emotional stress. Our approach in assisting you in the recovery of your health is to understand the nature of your symptom
and then to explore for the underlying root. As we have mentioned before, the root of each health challenge can usually be found
somewhere in the Triangle of Health paradigm. Therefore, the services that we use to evaluate you are based on how we can best
examine the Health Triangle: The balanced interrelationships of the physical, biochemical and perceptual/emotional components
of our health.
The Physical Component
Our muscle, bones and organs make up our physical body. Motion is an essential element of life. The flexibility of an infant is gradually lost over the decades due to lack of activity, injuries, biochemical imbalances and stress.
We experience many types of physical problems that impair our motion: broken bones, pinched nerves, tense muscles, weak bones (osteoporosis), torn ligaments, hiatal hernias, clogged arteries, blood clots and tumors to name a few examples.
Some physical problems are life threatening, others are debilitating. We have observed that it is often better to take the pebble out of the shoe than to give an anti-inflammatory for the pain that the pebble is causing.
The Perceptual Component
This relates to our relationships. How the internal and external environment is perceived influences our responses. If our body perceives an infection, then the immune system is activated. If our toe gets smashed we experience pain as a result that allows us to attend to the injury.
If we perceive that a relationship is threatening, then our fight or flight is activated. Our nervous system is what mediates and integrates all of these perceptual functions. A breakdown of this system can cause dysfunction in every system of our body. Examples of how we address perceptual issues include Neuroemotional Technique (NET), Proprioceptive training (kinesthetic awareness), and Neurofeedback
The Biochemical Component
We are not only what we eat, breath, drink, digest and absorb, but also what our body is able to manufacture. Our food nourishes our bodies allowing it to produce the cells and chemicals that are required to protect, heal, communicate and eliminate.
New research has demonstrated that our genetic expression is often controlled by our choice of food, beverage and toxins in our environment. Modern science has provided many methods to accurately measure our biochemistry.
Depending on our findings these interventions include dietary changes, nutritional supplementation, hormonal modulation, Neurotransmitter amino acid precursor therapy, botanical and phytonutrient therapies, detoxification/chelation for environmental toxins (heavy metals, xenobiotics, pesticides/herbicides) and homeopathic preparations.