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Curious About Our Stress Reduction Treatments?
Drop in on Wednesdays between 4:00 - 6:00pm for a 10 minute ear-acupuncture treatment.
$15 - or Free if you bring a friend. Call 780-428-8897 for details.
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Treatment Plans: Connecting the dots...
Meridian Health is a collaborative team of conventional and alternative medicine practitioners that address pain and stress management from diverse perspectives.
Connected Care: Our Connected Care healing plans allow for coordination of care between members of our team as your condition improves and your needs change. We may employ and coordinate a combination of these therapies:
At Meridian Health we use acupuncture (often in combination with other modalities like physiotherapy or massage) to help the body release muscular tension, calm the mind, and circumvent the 'fight or flight' stress response in the nervous and endocrine system.
Our treatment protocols encourage the body to enter a 'rest and digest' state that allows the body to repair and restore it's systems, and promote healing.
Physiotherapy seeks to bring health to acute and chronic muskoloskeletal problems. In many cases this requires relearning movement patterns and addressing compensations that have taken place over time. At Meridian Health this is accomplished with one-on-one treatment sessions in a relaxed clinical environment. As well, acupuncture may be integrated into the physiotherapy treatment model to help address pain and facilitate the recovery process.
Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine
Many of our herbal prescriptions for stress consist of herbs known as 'adaptogens'. These plants provided the body the ability to increase resistance to stressors, and had a normalizing action to various systems (endocrine, nervous). For example, adaptogens can lower a high blood pressure problem, or raise blood pressure for a person with low blood pressure. For more complex conditions, patient-specific Chinese Herbal formulations can be created in our compounding pharmacy and adjusted every few weeks as the condition requires.
The physical impact of stress is often overlooked, as we tend to disconnect from our bodies when they are in a state of constant tension and strain. We adapt "holding patterns" of posture and movement to work around the muscles that are tight and sore. We start to adjust to the knots in our muscles, to the fatigue, to the inability to do a simple shoulder check while driving! Massage therapy can re-introduce blood back into those tense muscles and help you re-establish relaxed muscle tone.
Homeopathic remedies, whether traditional or modern remedies, are prescribed to support the body's inherent capacity of self regulation. The idea is to provide the body with particular information (from nature) that it is in need of to overcome a disease or stressful event. The remedy acts as catalyst rather than a typical active (pharmacological) compound reliant on a dosage-effect relationship. Modern formulations integrate conventional allopathic and traditional homeopathic knowledge. These newer remedies are partly based on the body's communicating molecules such as hormones or neurotransmitters. In addition, specific remedies can be chosen to support a person with the drainage of toxins.