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Mental Recovery from a Physical Injury/Illness

Recovery from an injury or illness needs to incorporate many aspects: physical, mental/emotional and spiritual.  As a health care professional, I see that the majority of us fixate on the physical components of heeling.  A multi-modal approach to recovery would be more beneficial.  The focus of this post is the mental/emotional aspect of recovery.   I had a conversation …

Improve Health and Injury Recovery by Improving Your Immune Function

I had the pleasure to attend a webinar this past weekend by Didrik Sopler, Ph.D., L.Ac., in which he discussed ways we can improve our overall healing by optimizing our immune system response. How do we optimize immune function? What is an immune response? The primary response acts rapidly after an invading pathogen (virus, bacteria, …