Total Health Systems

Introduction: The Total Health Systems story: We're a full-service health and wellness facility that not only takes care of your pain, but also provides you with the tools necessary to obtain and maintain optimal health and wellness, guaranteed! The strength of Total Health Systems of Macomb County depends in the unparalleled combination of healthcare disciplines we provide. We offer traditional medical services, chiropractic, physical therapy, one-on-one personal training, massage therapy, physician-supervised weight loss, nutrition, and wellness services. It's this unparalleled combination of healthcare services that cause us to stand out from the healthcare crowd in the Macomb county area. We provide one-stop shopping for conservative, drug-free healthcare approaches. At Total Health Systems of Clinton Township and Chesterfield, we are "a multi-disciplinary practice that provides both traditional medical and holistic therapies with a divided 'wellness' and 'corrective' approach". By focusing on correcting joint dysfunction and nervous system coordination with our chiropractic approach, and correcting muscle imbalance with our physical therapy services, we are able to transition our patients from a passive to active care model. By breaking down muscle using soft tissue techniques, including massage, stretching and joint mobilization, followed by a corrective exercise program, we are able to achieve our mission of long-term health and wellness. We also promote holistic health and wellness by making nutrition and supplement recommendations to improve the biochemical aspects of our patient's health. In this approach, we are looking at the whole person, instead of treating individual conditions. The healthcare industry is a slow-moving pendulum that is swinging toward patient-centered healthcare and preventative medicine. We treat patients with various musculoskeletal problems, likewise a myriad of disease states. Until recently, this "sickness model" has dominated the healthcare system. In this "sickness model", we've seen the following: • Products and services provided re-actively to people with existing disease; and • Products and services equipped mostly for use after the disease has presented or developed. We treat those patients who actively seek out the "sickness model" of healthcare, while promoting the "wellness model" to them as a viable option if they choose it. In the paradigm shift to the "wellness model", we're now seeing: • Individuals proactively involved in their own health • Companies proactively involved in their employees' wellness and health • Products and services provided proactively to healthy individuals to make them feel better, slow-aging, actively forbid disease from developing, or to detect and treat disease early Americans tend to see themselves as healthy until they are actively sick, according to results of a new survey. The difference between their perceptions and reality may put their well-being at risk. According to Dr. Charles Schutz, chief medical officer of Destiny Health, which sponsored the survey, "More than anything, the study shows the need for a new meaning for the word 'healthy', [Americans'] definition of healthy is 'I feel fine'. That's a dangerous belief that needs to be superseded by the understanding that an individual is healthy only when he or she is living a healthy lifestyle, and is regularly supervising key risk elements like blood pressure and cholesterol levels. "It's a reality that an individual who is being decently treated for hypertension may very substantially be healthier and cause lesser health insurance cost troubles for his or her employer than one who exercises regularly and feels well, but who never sees a doctor", he said. To that point, Schutz said the greatest employer "healthcare" cost comes in the form of thrown productivity that University of Michigan prof Dr. Dee Edington and others have dubbed "presenteeism" — workers coming to work, but causing less done due to chronic, but not controlled diseases or health behaviors and risks. According to Edington, that cost, while often unseeable, well surpasses the healthcare cost of the identifiable illness. The survey of 1,004 adults showed that 67 percent reported being physically active, and only 30 percent perceived themselves as being overweight. "The fact, as reported by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), literally reverses those numbers", Dr. Schutz said. HHS statistics show that over 60% of Americans don't get enough physical activity to give health benefits, and that over 25 percent are not active at all. HHS statistics show that 64 percent of Americans are overweight. Similar disparities emerge from other information gathered in the Destiny Health Study: While three-fourths of the survey respondents regarded themselves "healthy", a research program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation discovered that nearly half the U.S. population (125 million) "exist with at least one chronic health condition, and that a lot live with more than one." 88% of those surveyed said they believed their health could be improved by eating healthy foods, yet 43 percent of the survey respondents acknowledged dining on fast food one or more times per week, and almost 90 percent of those said they eat processed snack foods regularly. Dr. Schutz described the results as "troubling, but not surprising news" that embellishes the urgent need for health-education programs, wellness initiatives, and incentives that urge employees to embrace better health habits. If you are looking for a healthcare facility that is interested in treating "you", and not a disease or condition, Total Health Systems of Macomb County is the perfect fit for all your healthcare needs.