Integrative Care: What is that?

We at HomeCare offer Integrative Care. This is a way of practice that incorporates elements of complementary and alternative medicine into a comprehensive treatment plan alongside and supportive of solidly orthodox conventional methods of diagnosis and treatment.

Conventional Western medicine can be limited and limiting.  It is anti – medicine: antibiotics; anti-inflammatories, chemotherapeutics.  The patient can be lost in the overfocus on the disease being treated.  Healing does require treatment of the disease but also requires attention to the causes of that disease, the whole patient, how they live and eat and function.  For there to be healing of organs and tissues there must be healing at the cellular and microstructural level, and for that to occur there must be good energy flow, healthy life force. This is the forte of TCVM or Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine. Healing from within.

And so integrative medicine is a blend of western and eastern medicine for the benefit of healing the entire patient.  To solid conventional medicine we offer food therapy, we offer herbal medicine that is so much safer and more supportive, we offer assessment of the environment of the pet, laser therapy, acupuncture. We can teach you Tui-Na healing massage techniques as well as therapeutic exercises to do at home.  This is integrative medicine: truly comprehensive, compassionate care.