About Aromatherapy

If you have questions about what aromatherapy can do, here are a few insights!

Aromatherapy uses essential oils. Essential oils are:

  • Natural, aromatic compounds found in plants
  • Extracted by being steamed, distilled, or cold pressed
  • Very concentrated, which makes them 50-70 times more powerful than herbs

Essential oils have been used since ancient cultures, and aromatherapy is a natural way to take care of your health with safe benefits and no side effects.

Impact Wellness Solutions uses the AromaTouch Technique. This technique is a clinical approach to applying essential oils along energy meridians and visceral contact points of the back and feet to help balance sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems of the body. This technique improves your well-being by reducing physical and emotional stressors and supporting healthy autonomic function.

The AromaTouch Technique has four primary steps: stress management, immune support, inflammatory response, and homeostasis. These steps are designed to minimize systematic stressors to autonomic balance. Each step includes the application of two essential oils (or essential oils blends) that are specifically formulated to support healthy emotional and physiological functions for your wellness. For stress management, the Balance Lavender essential oils are applied. To reduce toxic insult and raise immune support, Melaleuca On Guard is applied. To cut down inflammation for a healthy inflammatory response, AromaTouch Deep Blue is applied. To help re-establish a state of homeostasis within the body and decrease autonomic imbalances, the Wild Orange Peppermint essential oils are applied.

The technique requires 30 minutes per application.

But not only are there essential oils that reduce chronic stress, strengthen the immune system, decrease chronic illnesses caused by unchecked inflammation, and maintain balance in the nervous system, but there are also oils for things like stomach problems and even oils that make good bug repellent! Any over-the-counter stomach or gas medicine can be replaced by AromaTouches Digestzen! And their TerraShield and Lemon essential oils can be mixed together so you can get rid of those chemical-odored mosquito sprays!

There are so many things that essential oils can do for your health, and we can help you learn even more about them at Impact Wellness Solutions!

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Your Questions About Athletic Trainers

You may be asking yourself, “Do I really need an athletic trainer?” The answer? A definitive “YES!”

If you have made it to reading this, there’s a part of you already looking for solutions to your health problems, concerns, and/or worries. And an athletic trainer can help!

How? Well, let’s look at exactly what an athletic trainer is and does for their clients.

By definition, athletic trainers are health care professionals who specialize in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation. This means that an athletic trainer can do many things for your well-being! For example, they may help you find ways to prevent an injury from happening to you while playing sports, or even give you dieting and exercising tips on how you can prevent some diseases. They may be able to diagnosis an injury or health problem you have. In any case, it is an athletic trainers job to help you treat your pains or ailments and rehabilitate your injuries.

Now you may be wondering, “Diagnosis? Treatment? Is an athletic trainer a doctor?” The answer to this question is no, but athletic trainers will work with doctors to help you!

Studies have even shown that athletic trainers come to the same diagnosis as doctors 92% of the time! If an athletic trainer can help you, there are benefits to working with both health professionals instead of doctors alone.

What are the benefits? Doctors practice conventional medicine, while athletic trainers deal in functional medicine. Conventional is disease oriented and doctor centered, while functional is health oriented and patient centered. Doctors treat everyone the same and give diagnoses based on symptoms. Athletic trainers treat you as an individual and give diagnoses based on your health as a whole, taking into account not only bodily factors, but mental and social factors as well. Lastly, conventional medicine specializes on diseases instead of looking at the underlying causes of diseases like functional medicine– focusing on early detection instead of prevention.

Your next question may be, “Why should I buy into what athletic trainers are selling?” But that’s just it. Athletic trainers aren’t trying to sell you anything! They do their jobs to offer you hope, excitement, and freedom for your health. They want to help you set specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based goals and have fun with you while doing it. A goal without a plan is just a wish. Athletic trainers give you the plans to achieve your goals so that your health wishes become wellness accomplishments!

That is why your final question should be “When can I begin my journey with my athletic trainer?”

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