A Minneapolis chiropractor demonstrates the types of holistic treatments available at Mittag Holistic Chiropractic in St. Louis Park, MN. Dr. Harlan Mittag has been a holistic chiropractor in the Minneapolis area for the past 29 years. He was voted a Top Chiropractor of 2014 by Minnesota Monthly Magazine.
Tour a Holistic Chiropractic Clinic
Many people are interested in alternative health and want to know more about the types of holistic treatments that are available. Dr. Mittag gives a video tour of his clinic in the video below. He shows some of the holistic treatments used at Mittag Holistic Chiropractic including acupuncture, chiropractic adjustments, craniosacral therapy, functional medicine and nutritional therapies, PEMF, energy healing (Reiki, Reconnective Healing, Qi Gong) and more.
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Holistic medicine involves looking at the whole person and identifying all of the different components of one’s life that are contributing to a specific health condition. Some of these components are one’s attitudes and emotional well being, the level of stress one experiences in life, diet and exercise, family history and genetics, and more.
While some of these components are beyond the scope of even holistic chiropractic practice, many can be addressed at least in part using the holistic therapies that we have available.
Acupuncture and Energy Healing
For instance acupuncture and energy healing can help to release stress built up in one’s body. A common experience of patients undergoing such treatments is feeling very relaxed. Patients have later described having gone home and slept for 10 hours after such treatments. Most of us have our foot on the gas pedal 24/7 and don’t know how to stop pushing ourselves. Acupuncture and energy healing re-balance one’s energies allowing the nervous system to shift into a self healing mode called parasympathetic dominance.
Functional Medicine and Nutritional Therapies
Functional medicine is the newly evolved practice of testing the multitude of bio-markers that are associated with optimal health. It is a way of assessing how well your body is functioning. Modern medicine tends to classify patients as either being either well or diseased. There’s no middle ground. And yet we know that disease doesn’t happen over night. Our physiology gradually declines over years or decades before we reach the disease state recognized by modern doctors.
Modern medicine’s practice of functional medicine is almost solely limited to the evaluation of cholesterol levels. However there are many other bio-markers that can be tested. These include vitamin and mineral levels, omega 3 fatty acid status, body and tissue pH, toxins such as heavy metals, the types of bacteria in the gut, immune sensitivities and reactions, and more.
A practitioner of functional medicine listens to the patient’s health concerns, evaluates their health history (including their family history) and determines which bio-markers are likely to be out of balance. Lab testing of blood, urine, saliva and stool evaluates what bio-markers are out of balance. Then nutritional therapies, avoidance of reactive foods and environmentals, detoxification protocols and other procedures are used to help restore the patient to optimal health and vitality.