People who consult doctors get one "solution" for most issues: a prescription for toxic drugs. But when you translate terms and offer independent perspectives, things can turn around in an instant.
A simple example of how knowing the terminology and having access to independent perspectives can translate to immediate, real value.
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Making Medical Terminology You Need in the Moment Crystal Clear
Why Independent Perspectives are Critical
A Simple Example of How Terminology & Context Translate to Real Value
Glossaries & Indexes
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Making Medical Terminology You Need in the Moment Crystal Clear
We specialize in providing leading-edge, evidence-based root causes and therapies for conditions, but we also provide invaluable information on diagnoses and medical terminology, as in the following lessons, for example.
Why Independent Perspectives are Critical
While we advocate for prioritizing the identification and resolution of root causes, we provide information on diagnoses and medical terminology for particular reasons, the most important of which is that lack of knowledge of medical terminology can create a power imbalance. When people encounter others who have credentials such as an M.D. who are using unfamiliar or complex terminology, they may feel inadequate or make presumptions about the expertise of the “authority figure”. As a result, they may give their power away to another rather than seeking the type of support that empowers them.
Another reason for making such material accessible is that Allopathic Medicine terminology is entrenched in western society and is necessary for understanding medical research and clinical reports. To efficiently digest information and research for themselves, people need a foundational grounding in the material and a clear understanding of the terminology used.
This is why we find it critical to clearly define terminology and bring forth other sources from outside the establishment system who can help individuals to reclaim their power and think critically about the information they’re presented with.
At Wellness Resource Center, we make it more efficient to understand medical diagnoses and terminology.
We don’t do this because establishment medicine’s approach is the most effective way to heal. On the contrary, it’s a verifiably failed system that also causes harm with its “medicines”.
Medical terminology related to the diagnosis of chronic disease is particularly disconnected from healing, instead perpetuating the verifiably false proposition that illness isn’t connected to causes that can be addressed.
To counter this harm, we provide information that empowers efforts to identify effective healing support as opposed to drowning in distracting terminology.
While we include information on diagnoses for the help that this can provide, we wish to be clear that establishment medicine uses a system of diagnosis that is often a distraction.
Diagnosis in Allopathic Medicine (in contrast to 20 other medical systems) is typically just a name for a combination of symptoms without connection to root causes.
The real value in diagnosis is in observing and interpreting the body’s messages in order to seek and resolve the cause of illness.
Establishment medicine, however, devotes vast resources and time to aggregating symptom combinations and making up names for 97,296 possible combinations.
Thus, while we offer information on diagnoses to maximize understanding of all available resources, we advocate for keeping attention primarily on identifying and resolving root causes.
A Simple Example of How Terminology & Context Translate to Real Value
In the post on Understanding and Addressing Neck & Shoulder Pain, you’ll see a vocab list that you can reference with ease when reading related material. Terms like “cervical radiculopathy” and “thoracic outlet syndrome” are unnecessarily exclusionary words that can be defined much more simply and clearly, and so we do that.
For example:
Cervical refers to the neck.
Radiculopathy means nerve compression.
Therefore, “cervical radiculopathy” can be defined as “compression of nerves in the neck, causing pain”.
We can make the concept of compression clearer, too. An appropriate synonym in this use could be squeezing. So “cervical radiculopathy” pairs two technical words to mean something very simple: a squeezing of the nerves in the neck.
There’s more value to this process than just understanding what is being said. A true understanding means that we can now connect this information to what is known about related subjects, like nerves and compression.
We now clearly understand that bodily tissues are squeezing a nerve.
So the logical conclusion is that bones are misaligned or muscles are imbalanced or connective tissues are inflamed.
Cool. There are many effective techniques and therapies for investigating and resolving what’s causing the compression and lots of people resolve such situations every day.
This is in contrast to getting a diagnosis from a white coat (authority figure) of “cervical radiculopathy” with a prescription for pain pills that cause out-of-this-world harm.
That diagnosis sounds complicated and scary as a hell — is it terminal?
It never occurs to the person that the doctor didn’t investigate or seek to resolve the cause.
How long until he gets an ulcer, heart disease, heat attack or kidney failure (known effects of NSAIDs) and gets more prescriptions for those?
Glossaries & Indexes
When you’re investigating a subject, a vocab list for that subject comes in ultra-handy. And that’s why we provide them.
In some cases, you may come across a term out of context of such study and need quick access to the meaning. So we provide multiple glossaries and indices:
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