Many patients come to visit with disorders and diseases present a very high number of years, sometimes over 10, sometimes even 20 or 30.

The visit is lengthy and often very challenging, because the key problems is usually associated with other issues and the collection of anamnestic history, the many and diverse care taken and the list seems infinite number of tests performed. However, the patient perceives as the feeling of being landed with a last chance to change things in a definitive way.

It is precisely these patients who often inexplicably give up the therapy before it is even undertaken. To visit you define ready for anything and I decided to tackle the problem seriously. The method and the professional yet congenial to him for no apparent reason justifying the arrest, stop.

After the first three sessions, but sometimes even after the former, without immediately perceiving small or large improvements are beginning to ask how many more times will come and then quickly stop caring altogether: their other priorities are and you can not ask them to move forward.

Years ago we stayed almost hurt, I felt like cheated out of something. I called "therapeutic consumerism": the painkiller for pain, anxiety medication for anxiety, for the hypnotic sleep, the anti-emetic for nausea, anti-diarrheal for diarrhea. We used to take a drug to remove a symptom and not worry at all why this is generated and how to avoid it, simply take off. Of course, most times without any resolution of the problem that caused it.

Most people are accustomed to consume medicines and drugs too lightly, and without asking too many questions. This produces a negative result in respect of the way to heal it. But in reality it is much more than that: it is giving up the chance to break free from the bondage of the disease.

Perhaps it is the fear of failure that takes over, or a kind of acceptance of one's sick as a punishment or as if it deserved or could not aspire to get better. Lacks the strength to go forward, the decision to start fails. Leave the battle after he had gathered the army and weapons even if the enemy's strength and contrast and potentially victory in his pocket.

Today, after years of work, most do not consider my failure, but a sin. A sin in the true sense of the word and not in the sense attributed by morality. A sin is an untapped opportunity, no offense, it will by the patient by the physician, only ... pity not to have tried.

Now I recognize the type of the patient from the first visit and I got to tell these people that it is better for them not to start even if they have not really decided to leave and to stay the course.

This three reasons: first, economic, or the patient stops the treatment once or too quickly just as quickly loses the benefits earned or does not reach them at all and wasting his time and his money,

The second is of an idealistic: losing the benefits quickly or have none undermines confidence in the therapy and the therapist: an attitude that must begin to change in the patient if he wants to obtain any result, whatever technique is used.

The third reason is that, if the disorder is acute or very deeply rooted, it's like deciding to go with the boat in rough seas, you can do, even if it requires a lot of energy to counteract the force of waves and current. In this case, however, give up after the first efforts may actually be due to a temporary worsening of symptoms, it is as if the boat was swept away by the waves and returned abruptly to the shore by the storm raged.

I believe that in these cases is fair and just tell the patient before starting, even at the risk of not treating it not once, thereby protecting the person but also acupuncture as such and not just your wallet.

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Finding a good doctor is difficult, we all agree, this is why many use other figures because traumatized from previous experiences.

And 'in fact common to think that doctors in general are especially able to do many tests, scared to death of the patient and, when it comes to finding therapeutic strategies, invariably resorting to the usual drugs, anxiolytics for anxiety, hypnotics for insomnia, anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids for pain in general until you get to opiates and so on.

People who see this as a limit attegggiamento are no longer willing to go to the doctors and this is a bit of a drama, ranging from the healer, osteopath and naturopath, usually paramedics or not graduates in medicine: some of these are really competent and serious, while others have a totally inadequate medical training and experience to evaluate some pathological situations together.

Often it is the latter category to show safety and infallibility, flaunting diagnosis absolutely certain about the origin of the disorder.

At le of all, though, one thing is certain: if the patient is important to find a good doctor or therapist, just as it is for the doctor to find a good patient. And, I must really say, it is not obvious.

A good patient is one who does not turn to the right and left from different specialists for different ailments, but he takes one step at a time, reporting and asking for advice on whether to go to other utilities. Although it is impossible to be experts in everything, the medicine should take care of all the districts, from the skin to "gut, shoulder ... that we should treat the subject in its entirety.

There are many, if not many, patients who think "the shoulder tract and ulcerative dall'agopuntore the gastroenterologist," or that a disorder is caused by one thing and another to another, it does not believe there is no connection and no a way to talk to who's taking care of just the shoulder.

A patient must be of first importance what the name says: of course the patient and doctor should be!

It often happens however that the patient decides to end his treatment without waiting for the doctor to tell him is, perhaps, is that if doctors used to take advantage, or perhaps for the common and usual hurry or maybe because he wants to manage his time and his decisions. What commonly happens today is that the patient achieved a modest improvement over 50%, deems sufficient.

Working with acupuncture and herbal medicine is to modify an imbalance, as can be seen in the case of a scale, it remains till it is completely removed, otherwise, more or less rapidly, the so-called relapses occur.

A good patient does not wait twenty years to treat a disorder by declaring, after the first five treatments, to be disappointed at the lack of that efficacy that, whether or partially, however, say they have heard on your body.

It takes at least one year of continuous therapy and two years of therapy in total contingent to think of a true healing of this disorder for over twenty years and if you say you care in three sessions will take around. (more ... )

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