How Integrative and Holistic medicine can help you in Addiction treatment

Integrative medicine and holistic medicine treatments have become the standard of addiction and mental health treatment over the past couple of decades rather than conventional medicine. People suffering from substance abuse disorder and mental health problems can treat various holistic and integrative approaches. If you are suffering from trauma or chronic pain, there are alternative treatments that can help you.

What Does Holistic Medicine Mean?

Holistic addiction treatment and integrative medicine approach the person as a whole being. Mental health treatment centers use alternative therapies to help both the psychological and physical needs of the patients. Clients who utilize complementary therapies such as natural medicine may see improvements in their rehabilitation and progress in their mental health throughout their daily lives.

To completely heal from trauma or addiction, the person as a whole must focus on mind and body healing. We want clients to heal from substance use disorder, chronic disease, alcohol addiction, addictive behaviors, and other compulsive behaviors. 

We see holistic medicine approaches
as a way for clients to heal from their trauma and addictions completely.

What Is part of a Holistic Treatment Program?

Our comprehensive treatment schedule utilizes the mind, body, and spirit model to help our clients. Some of these techniques are alternative medicine or complementary treatments. Some of these practices come from cultural traditions. Some examples of these include:

• Massage Therapy

• Acupuncture

• Nutritional Therapy.

• Yoga and meditation.

• Biofeedback and neurofeedback.

• Energy therapy

• Herbal medicines.

These techniques are just a small example of the wide range of treatments called holistic medicine. We want to give you a path to recovery and Comprehensive Care so that you can begin your journey to long-term recovery. According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, about 4 out of 10 adults in the United States use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and the trend seems to be growing.

The primary trend of integrative medicine and holistic medicine is to treat the body as a whole. We intend to treat the root cause of your trauma, mental health problems, and your substance abuse disorder. With this in mind, the appropriate holistic and integrative approach is to treat the behaviors that cause substance abuse and mental health problems.

Incorporating Integrative Techniques for Substance Abuse Treatment

Holistic approaches help clients in a recovery center that uses a more standard system. These new approaches are practical and applicable. These holistic approaches are as follows:

• Acupuncture can help with withdrawal symptoms.

• Stress or emotional issues can be crutches for substance abuse disorder

• Holistic medicine can help give the client a spiritual grounding.

• Holistic up medicine can also help with unhealthy eating habits and malnutrition.

Some techniques, such as Reiki, aim to correct an energetic theoretical imbalance through body-energy manipulation.

Advocates of integrative medicine say that they can improve chances of long-lasting recovery from substance abuse disorder. Professionals recommend using therapies in combination with standard treatment to help the client better. Our approaches are all evidence-based practices and have helped clients. 

The chances of a person recovering from their trauma or substance abuse disorder exponentially improve when they utilize integrative medicine and holistic medicine.

How Effective are Holistic Techniques in Rehab?

It cannot be easy to find research that backs up the efficacy of treatment programs. There isn’t a lot of research done on integrative therapies, and the results are often questionable. People wrongfully think that holistic approaches are useless for addiction and mental health treatment. These people are incorrect.

In some cases, holistic treatments could attract people who might otherwise not be interested in conventional therapies, make them more comfortable with entering treatment, and may make them more willing to try other, research-based therapies that provide a greater likelihood of recovery. These therapies can help people feel more at ease, more productive in their treatment response, and generally better able to cope with the challenges of detachment and rehab. There are reasons why holistic practices can be an excellent complement to the more evidence-based therapies.

Holistic and Conventional Approaches in Treatment

Evidence-based practice and an integretive approach for substance abuse disorder support the client during recovery better than traditional approaches. Research shows that it is essential to research which rehabilitation centers practice integrative approaches. Maple Mountain mental health and wellness utilizes various treatments from conventional to holistic and integrative approaches.