A systems approach to breathing problems

re: A systems approach to breathing problems

Graham Ewing — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:58:06 GMT

At long last you starting to see the light. You may wish to consider how the physiological systems are associated with the regulation of the body's health and wellbeing whereas pathophysiology is obsessed with the study of the processes of illness.

Virtual Scanning is the only available technology which has been developed which uses an understanding of how the body's function is regulated by the physiological systems and hence how this can be used to stimulate good health.

Graham

re: A systems approach to breathing problems

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:22:09 GMT

The beleif that doctors "consider each system in isolation" or that they are not taught to think "globally" is quite false. There are literally hundred of examples from every day medical practice that demonstrate that this simply isn't the case.

Heart disease and cancer are two very common illness. Conventional medical advice begins with preventative treatments, such as a healthy diet, excercise, avoiding smoking and alcohol, stress etc. None of these approaches are based on a view that the systems of the body should be studied in isolation.

Medical science studies all the organ systems and how they interact with one another to perform the functions of a working body. How the function of the kidneys is essential for blood pressure and heart rhythms, how hormonal secretions for the endocrine glands affects almost all systems of the body. How the function of the brain is essential for correct co-ordination of so many systems.

That's the reality. The view that medical science advocates, for example, that "a heart attak must be due to clogged pipes" is simply wrong. Conventional medicine knows (and advises) that, using your example, a heart attack can be due to poor diet, a lack of excercise, obesity, chronic stress, genetic problems, diabetes, smoking, etc. Lifestyle factors are just as much a part of conventional medical treatment as anything else.

I'm afraid your statements are fundamentally misguided.

Regards

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re: A systems approach to breathing problems

Donal Doherty — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:19:59 GMT

Modern medical science is based on treating symptoms, rather than addressing the route cause. Treating symptoms is not inherently a bad thing. Failing to address the route cause is nonsensical at best.

When some estimates suggest that up to 25% of oxygen intake is consumed by the brain, it's not a great stretch to imagine that brain function will suffer as intake is reduced.

If modern medical science where truly systemic, the musclo-skeletal system is the most obvious, quickest and most cost effective place to look first - it can been observed by the naked (and trained) eye.

Rounding of the upper back and shoulders, collapsing of the chest and tilting of the pelvis are all clues that the function of the diaphragm (the 'breathing muscle') is compromised and the airways are misaligned.

Think of how a vacuum cleaner makes funny noises and looses suction (which is just ramped up intake of air) when it's pipe (airway) becomes impinged.

There can of course be other contributing or causative factors, but this does not excuse the failure to look at the simplest and to treat it accordingly by non-invasive corrective means.