Dr Wenning Zhao, R.A., OMD, DC. is a Board Certified Acupuncturist in the State of Ohio and a Nationally Certified Diplomate in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs. A graduate of Medical School in China in 1982, he earned his Doctorate in Chiropractic in the United States in 1994. Dr. Zhao founded Able Alternative Health Care in Maple Heights the following year, where he specializes in providing healthcare services using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). We met recently with Dr. Zhao, and listened as he explained how to improve your health the natural way;
Able Alternative Health Care offers acupuncture, acupressure, and chiropractic therapy, in addition to food supplements and herbal formulas. I believe that the best way to improve your health is the all-natural way. With surgeries and pharmaceutical drugs, you always experience negative, damaging side effects. Surgery itself traumatizes the body, and the use of drugs is well known for producing toxic side effects. By caring for your health the natural way, your body's internal systems begin to work together in harmony, resulting in a greatly improved quality of life.
Acupuncture has been practiced in China for at least five thousand years, while modern medicine is only one hundred and fifty years old. Chinese medicine holds that any symptom or illness is a imbalance in a persons energy (Chi). Acupuncture works by stimulating the various points in the body which are pathways for "Chi" to flow. Commonly used explanations are:
Acupuncture alters body chemicals, including stimulation of endorphins.
Acupuncture sensations effect nerves and cause beneficial reflex response.
Acupuncture affects the bodies natural electro-magnetic fields.
The rule of thumb is that acupuncture can treat anything that has not caused gross organ changes, however, this is not a hard-fast rule. In the western medicine circle, acupuncture is best recognized for its role in pain management. It may be used as the only treatment against pain, or as part of a program involving other approaches. The type of pain that can respond well to acupuncture includes long standing chronic types such as arthritis, scar pain, and back pain, in addition to acute pain such as sciatica, shoulder, neck, back, and muscular pain. Other conditions in which acupuncture has been studied with good results include stress and sleep disorders, prevention of colds, flu, arthritis, and chronic fatigue, respiratory issues, such as allergies, sinusitis, and asthma, and many other conditions including high blood pressure, poor circulation, and cold feet.
In the eighty odd years of its development, Chiropractic science has grown to major stature in the.field of the healing arts and has helped millions of people. The Doctor of Chiropractic works both directly and indirectly with the nervous system. Every function of the body is under the control of this system. Every organ, tissue, and cell is controlled by nerve impulses traveling from the brain to all parts of the body. In fact, the nervous system is the Master System controlling all other systems of the body including the glandular, reproductive, digestive, eliminative, respiratory, and circulatory systems. The spine houses and protects the spinal cord, the "switchboard" of the nervous system through which nerve fibers pass from the brain to different parts of the body.
When, through injury or posture problems vertebrae become misaligned they interfere with the normal function of these nerves. This misalignment and fixation causes pain and malfunction of the nervous system and is called a vertebral subluxation complex. The objective of Chiropractic care is to determine, through an exacting and thorough examination, the precise degree of spinal misalignment and fixation producing this subluxation complex. Proper adjustments are then given to remove and unlock these subluxation complexes, thus removing the cause of pain and malfunction.
Oriental Medicine encompasses an array of medical practices based upon millennia of observational studies and trial-and-error approaches to treating human conditions. Much of Oriental Medical philosophy developed in conjunction with ancient Taoist emphasis on living in harmony with nature, and that by doing so, one could enhance and prolong life itself. Taosts believed that there were certain universal principles of nature that apply to all things, and by observing all things, both gross and subtle, they could identify the cause of illness and develop methods to prevent it. Oriental Medicine practitioners thereby regard even vague symptoms and complaints as potentially meaningful.
Many people today are looking for natural healing approaches to healthcare. My areas of expertise include allergies, arthritis, asthma, gastrointestinal disorders, headaches and migraines, hypertension, insomnia, menstrual disorders, rheumatology, sports medicine, weight reduction, and women's health. We work with most health insurance plans, Worker's Compensation, auto insurance, and personal injury insurances.
Able Alternative Health Care will help you improve your health the natural way. Call Able Alternative Health Care today, and don't forget to tell them The Advocate sent you!
