Symptoms are our body's way of letting us know that we have been living a lifestyle that is not congruent with what we need in order to be healthy. Symptoms can also arise due to a trauma that is so severe that we are consciously made aware of the problem immediately. Symptom based health care is designed to start when symptoms occur and end when symptoms subside. This of course makes sense to a lot of people because if they cannot feel a problem then they must not have a problem. I would argue that this is a dangerous belief. If how we feel dictates how healthy we truly are, then why is it that often the first sign of a heart attack occurs when you are actually having the heart attack and not when you begin to have plaque build up in your arteries? Why does the first symptom of a stroke occur when you are actually having the stroke instead of when the problem actually begins many months to years earlier? Wellness based health care is designed to not be symptom based. Instead wellness based care is carried out on a regular basis regardless if symptoms are present or not. I like to think of wellness based care as "proactive health care." This way of taking care of your body is always more effective, more efficient and almost always cheaper financially to the patient in the long run. Not to mention cheaper in the sense that it is expensive emotionally and physically to the patient and to their family when that person has a health care crisis. To learn more about how to live a wellness/proactive lifestyle please go to http://www.powaywellness.com/ immediately.
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