The world is constantly changing, this includes new trends in different areas of life such as love, fashion, technology and even medicine; in the latter, alternative therapies to help relieve certain ailments of the body are known, but what are the rarest of today?
A Therapy is both physical and psychological medical procedure that helps to solve a patient’s problem. Its name derives from Greek and means care, treatment or cure.
Conventional therapies dominated the field of modern medicine, but in recent years the use of alternative therapies has increased so that people qualify traditional medicine as defective and inefficient and most of them do not want to consume drugs because their potential toxic effects.
Among the various alternative therapies considered rare, is Functional Electrical Stimulation, this type of therapy involves mild electric shock aimed at patients with muscle paralysis caused by deficiencies or damage of the nervous system.
Thus they achieved that through electrical stimulation, the mobility of certain joints and muscles recover. Therapy and downloads reconnect as a bridge the brain and muscles, to replace damaged natural signals.
Among other methods, it is called Apitherapy, that is, therapy with bees. The procedure lies in the sting of the bee in different affected areas of the body.
Undergoing this therapy can bring benefits to rheumatologic arthritis, psoriasis, warts, herpes, hernias, asthma, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, arrhythmia, atherosclerosis, varicose veins, loss of hearing or vision and glaucoma.
Equally strange is the use of leeches as therapy for blood disorders and to help people suffering from osteoporosis. To treat patients the procedure is as follows: first apply between 3 and 12 leeches to treat in the near place; it is the same animal who will decide the best place to start suction. Once everything bad is out, alone they emerge from the patient’s skin.
Its use helps remove the bad blood from the body, improve blood clotting and form new veins that will support the old ones that are damaged, all within about 48 hours.
Looking for various solutions is also used urine therapy; as its name suggests, it is ingested or applied urine depending on the problem at hand. Protects the immune system, rejuvenate and prevent allergies; however, long-term use can bring infections and irritations.
Finally, massages with placenta uncommonly, but there are more foreign sounding. Although is not proven, they are used to treat injuries such as torn ligaments or muscle tears.
For the more daring, they must know that there are several options that few dare to submit. But first we must know what is the purpose of each therapy, regardless of how these are carried out.
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