Fatigue
What is it?
Fatigue destroys our enjoyment of life. It is soul destroying to drag yourself through your daily rounds, knowing that if only you had the energy, life can be fun and exciting.
What causes it?
There are many factors that lead to fatigue. From the physical through the chemical or physiological to the emotional. Each is thoroughly assessed. Every patient treated as a unique case. It is important to know what medical tests have been pursued and what outcomes have been observed. There could be a serious underlying condition and this must be taken into account.
Structural or physical causes:
Fatigue can be the result of an accident at any time in one’s life: an untreated difficult birth injury requiring cranial therapy, from sport or other injuries to the body where healing is taking the essential vitality from the rest of the body. Ignored injuries such as whip lash trauma requires manipulative adjusting. Any injury especially those that don’t involve fracture, will tire you if healing of soft tissue is still needed. Physical therapy speeds up the healing process and gives back your vitality.
Chemical or physiological causes:
It often is a post-viral condition where the patient is still working to regain health. Flu’s and colds can take months to resolve especially if there is a history of a down spiral like glandular fever leading into chronic fatigue or ME syndrome. There can be faulty nutrition where wrong foods or proportions of foods are being ingested. Incorrect carbohydrate consumption affects hypoglycaemics or diabetic type 2 patients before diagnosis. Sports people require a different loading of carbohydrates to the average sedentary worker. Fatigue is a condition that can result when proportions of food and timing is incorrect. A protein breakfast works wonders quite quickly in many cases. Especially young girls and women whose menstruation is irregular, painful or otherwise normal. Hormones play an important part of vitality.
This can be said also for the young mothers and right up to menopause. Vitamin and mineral supplementation may be crucial.
Fatigue can be caused by drug taking, legal or illegal which upsets the normal physiology of the systems. Excess alcohol consumption has become a modern surge and the problem causes much fatigue as internal organs are affected. Much can be done to address this however.
Emotional factors:
There may be exhaustion from emotional causes, fear, grief, anger, frustration or stressful situations draining energy. Unhappiness is very tiring and must be addressed. Emotional exhaustion can be a matter of attitude. Unforgiveness and holding onto stresses from the past requires counselling to heal. Subconscious emotions need to be reconciled or we carry around negative stress that is a constant drain on everything we do.
Natural healing takes everything into consideration before devising therapy.
How can I help?
The total health profile of the patient is taken. To diagnose the cause of each person’s fatigue requires a complete history of the person being challenged, and time is taken to delve into the background of the sufferer.
After a thorough case history, certain tests are given which help in the diagnosis. Iridology is helpful to check for overall constitutional health. Lesions and discolourations can be a helpful guide.
Acupuncture pulse diagnosis (there are 12 pulses in the wrists) is vital to discover where the depleted energy is and where it should be. Fire energies are often depleted. Lung energies (the first energy) may need moxibustion to stimulate circulation here with dramatic effect.
A blood pressure reading is taken sitting and standing if there is a concern in this regard.
A full spinal examination is required and measurements are made to determine structural balancing. Nothing is more tiring than faulty spinal biomechanics. Leg lengths are checked and pelvic stability is noted. Muscle testing is helpful and an osteopathic exam is required. Cranial tests are done if there are head symptoms.
Homoeopathic observations are noted and addressed.
Dietary considerations and possible alterations to the food routine may act quickly.
Counselling is often required if there is any emotional involvement. There often is and energy recovers fast when underlying emotions are released.
So much can be accomplished to discover the underlying cause of fatigue. It can be quickly corrected and depending on the person’s condition, some time for therapy may be needed. A rule of thumb for treatment time is one month’s treatment to one year’s illness. Frequency of appointments depends on the therapy or therapies chosen.
