Helix Health

The Helix Health Approach: An Introduction

Helix Health has uses a natural approach to alleviate chronic fatigue. There are many causes of chronic fatigue and there are many treatments and therapies alleviating and curing chronic fatigue. The success of any therapy depends on the exact cause of fatigue. Energy imbalances respond well to energy medicine. Musculoskeletal complaints respond to manual therapy. Emotional problems respond to psychotherapeutic techniques, breathing problems with respiratory treatments and hormonal imbalances to hormonal corrections. If you injure your foot, you expect treatment of your foot. If you develop chilblains on your toes due to poor circulation, you would expect treatment to focus on improving your circulation. The same principle applies to fatigue and complementary therapy. The first step is to determine exactly what the problem is.

Therapeutic techniques are not randomly selected. Even the simplest of complaints begins with the question - 'why are you here?'. Imagine going into an osteopath's office with a painful left shoulder, and the osteopath neglects to ask you why you are there and starts therapy on your right knee. Or going to see a hypnotherapist to help you stop smoking, but he/she immediately launches into a session for weight loss. The secret to providing the best service is to first determine where the problem is. The most effective techniques are those that follow a thorough evaluation. The evaluation phase at Helix Health includes the following:

• Personal History
• Symptom Analysis
• Laboratory Tests
• Muscle Tests
• Functional Tests and Physiological Screening

The evaluation process is completed on a systematic basis. The personal history and symptom analysis is initially used to determined the most likely area of dysfunction, such as respiratory (breathing), cardiovascular (heart, blood vessels and circulation), neurological (brain and nervous system), immunological (allergies and immune related problems), endocrine (i.e. hormonal), digestive or musculoskeletal. Laboratory tests, in-depth symptom analysis, muscle tests and functional tests are utilised in combination within a particular system to determine the exact nature of the problem.

Multiple techniques from different therapeutic backgrounds are available through applied kinesiology and reiki-seichem. Therapeutic techniques are used from multiple disciplines including:

• Manual therapy
• Nutrition and orthomolecular medicine
• Energy psychology.

Therapy is a process not an event. Therapeutic sessions provide skills and solutions unavailable to the lay person, like cranial-sacral alignment, gait analysis and nutritional evaluations. The therapeutic intervention is a diverse process, addressing mental (emotional and cognitive), biochemical (vitamins, minerals, sugars, amino acids, fatty acids, enzymes) and structural (muscles, bones, ligaments, joints, soft tissue) imbalances through the use of appropriate techniques.

It often occurs on leaving a session that there were more question you wanted to ask and forgot to mention whilst you were there. Information passed on verbally during the session is difficult to recall a few hours later and you often wish that you made notes, however impractical that may be. Helix Health Appointments are followed up with an e-mail. This e-mail provides details of what transpired in the session and point out all the recommendations made. If any home exercises were given, instructions of these will also be included.

For questions never asked, there is always the opportunity to e-mail them through between sessions or alternatively, to post them on our on-line forum.

If the underlying cause is one or more particular problem, a referral will be made to a specialist in that particular area. For suspected medical problems, you will be referred back to your GP. If a single main cause can be determined, and a therapeutic trial illuminates a particular therapy that is particularly helpful, a specialist referral will be made to another complementary and alternative therapy practitioner specialising in the appropriate field, like an acupuncturist, osteopath, nutritionist, homeopath or hypnotherapist.

Chronic fatigue requires a general approach. People are individual and their case is usually unique. Hundreds of different factors can be linked to fatigue and in order to realistic determine and correct the relevant factors, a certain level of diversification is required. Once the main causative factors are established, it is time to eradicate them. Multiple small interacting factors respond excellent to the bee-hive approach we follow, but minimal significant factors generally respond better to a specialist approach. Helix Health makes use of referrals in the following scenarios:

• If a major underlying factor can be determined. For example, if food allergies are the main cause of chronic fatigue, a nutritionist or allergy specialist is usually best equipped to help.
• If clients have more than one complaint. Chronic fatigue can at times be the only major complaint. At other times, there can be two or three major complaints. For example: Someone suffering from chronic pain can find the pain just as unbearable as the fatigue. A referral would be made to a pain clinic to address the chronic pain.

Helix Health is continuously building an interactive relationship with like-minded therapists so that our referrals are as effective as they can possibly be, whilst also taking personal choice into account. If clients know of an acupuncturist that is local to them, we happily work with all qualified health professionals. If clients are unfamiliar with a particular therapy, we generally refer them to a therapist that we have established a working relationship with.