It’s time for a new understanding of medicine | Dr. Ulrich Frohberger/Münster
Today’s world is characterized by a constantly growing number of chronically ill people. The predominant medical thinking and action here is focused on the pathogenesis of the diseases. As the causes of chronic diseases are still largely unclear or unknown in almost all cases, it is often not the diseases themselves that are treated, but their consequences and symptoms.
Prevention: biological properties and resilience
Do general practitioners and specialists consistently apply the knowledge they have acquired during their studies to prevention and later also to treatment in the professional environment, in recreational and competitive sport? Are we paying sufficient attention to the concept of salutogenesis developed by the WHO, the OECD and the EU? This is about moving away from research into diseases towards well-founded interventions to develop, maintain or restore health. Only healthy people train successfully and achieve a stable high level of performance into old age!
Procedure in salutogenesis
- Detailed health, well-being, sports and social anamnesis
- Comprehensive laboratory diagnostics to assess the metabolism
- Functional orthopaedic-manual status of all body regions
- Apparative functional diagnostics for strength, coordination, functionality, etc.
- Nutritional analysis
- Imaging diagnostics with significance for therapeutic procedure or prognosis
- Moving away from contract and repair medicine towards regenerative medicine
- After individual analysis: individual health-oriented therapy concepts
