The wellness revolution

By MAUREEN HUGHES
mhughes@TheCitizenNews.com

In a changing world, Health Concepts offers creative, wellness health care, helping you to bring your health back into balance while empowering you to reach and maintain optimum wellness.

As a wellness advocate of 26 years, Dr. Veronique Desaulniers, better known as Dr. V, is the founder of Health Concepts in Fayetteville. She will be the first to say, “Our main objective is neither to treat nor diagnose a specific disease. Our goal is to bring the body into balance structurally, nutritionally and emotionally, thus allowing the body to heal naturally.”

Dr. Anna Good-buddy, who joined the wellness practice two years ago this fall, added, “The body is like an exquisite symphony. When one instrument is “off” it affects the whole; however when all are attuned and aligned there is harmony.”

At Health Concepts, Dr. V & Dr. Anna, both wellness chiropractors, have found that health is multifaceted: the structure of the body, internal biochemistry and energetic or emotional stress. Any lack of balance in one or all of these areas yields “dis-ease”, which leads to lack of equilibrium in our lives. “We concentrate on getting to the root of the problem, and that’s what we do best,” said Dr. V.

“Many of the patients that we have seen over the course of 26 years have informed us that we are their last resort. However, today more and more people are coming here as their first choice for treatment. Thankfully, we have been able to offer hope and health to these people. In many cases their health problems were completely resolved or vastly improved. The doctors and staff at Health Concepts would rather help you seek wellness instead of giving you temporary, symptomatic relief, yet always striving to help you at the level you desire.”

Dr. V and Dr. Anna have gone the extra mile and paid the price to be able to offer their patients multiple treatment techniques and a wide range of clinical therapies. They have taken post graduate studies all over the country in various chiropractic techniques, homeopathy nutrition and bio-energetics.

We are living in a toxic world. In 2003, the CDC in Atlanta conducted a nationwide study of 2500 people by studying their blood and urine samples for traces of 116 toxic chemicals. The results were shocking. All 116 chemicals were found in each subject. These chemicals stress the immune system, can act as “endocrine disruptors” and affect the fragile hormonal balance of the body, causing long term effects on your health. The doctors of Health Concepts will help you counteract the effects of our toxic environment, by bringing your system back to its natural state of wellness.

An assessment using painless and safe procedures may include a surface EMG spinal screening which measures electrical activity of muscles; neurological and orthopedic exam indicating any nerve root irritation, spinal imbalances and disc problems; a structural study of the spine; bio-energetic Stress test demonstration with the Body Scan 2010, technology that has been availbale for the past 50 years. The Body Scan measures changes of energy flow at the acupuncture points which may be a good indicator of stress in the body. Health Concepts is the only practice south of Atlanta to use Brimhall 10-Step Protocol to Health & Wellness. Dr. Anna describes the technique as a combination of Eastern medicine combined with chiropractic care. Recommendations regarding nutrition & nutrients are made as well as the use of homeopathic remedies.

In addition to being certified in The Brimhall Protocol the doctors of Health Concepts are trained in advanced “energy medicine” healing sciences and techniques. Numerous health and wellness therapies are made available to their patients. “We are highly specialized,” say the doctors. The Body Restoration Technique, unlike traditional Hormone Replacement Therapy, is a method used to bring the hormone system into balance naturally, using the body’s reflex and meridian system to rejuvenate and revitalize a person’s hormones and endocrine glands, as well as all the related body functions.

Another specialty is emotional freedom technique, which works on the premise that “the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.” By simply tapping specific reflex points, exercising the right and the left brain and releasing emotional toxins, emotional, mental and physical challenges may be reduced and even eliminated.

Dr. V has maintained successful practices in the Wellness Field since 1979. Besides being certified in the Brimhall 10 Step Protocol, she has also undertaken extensive studies in the Body Restoration Technique, Emotional Freedom Technique, as well as Bioenergetics. Her experience, her results with challenging cases, and her unique approach to health and wellness, attracts patients from all over the United States and Canada. Dr. V has many documented success stories from her patients. Those presented here are just a few of the testimonials:

• Cynthia travels from Chicago to see Dr. V and said that she feels better than she has felt in 20 years. She’s finally waking up pain free after experiencing years of severe pain all over her body, having been diagnosed in ’86 with lupus, rheumatoid artrhitis and fibromyalgia. Her doctors in Chicago said two years ago that the Lupus and RA are now in remission and have taken her off all medication.

• Judy J., who lives in Mississippi, was a patient of Dr. V's in Perry. Having lived with severe pain in her stomach, low energy, painful knees, trouble walking and sleeping, high blood pressure, on seven prescription drugs, and a lack of interest in former things, she was very discouraged until being treated by Dr. V. Today she’s amazed at the change and improvement in her life - walking better, working in the yard, blood pressure normal, off 5 prescriptions and she’s lost 28 lbs. Judy’s calling her healing a miracle.

• Locally, Irene  had experienced years of neck and lower back pain, diagnosed with lupus in 1988. The pain was so severe at times that it prevented her from sitting at long intervals and unable to lie down at times. After meeting Dr. Anna & Dr. V at one of their free seminars, she was “sold” on their natural techniques of healing. “No one has looked at the total me and with their help I’m not only healthier inside but also on the outside. I’ve learned more about me in the last month than all my years at the doctor’s office. Your body is just a part of who you are, so why not take care of all of ‘u.’ You are worth it!”

Dr. Anna specializes in Chiropractic Kinesiology and Brimhall Technique, and has vast experience in the allopathic and wellness health fields. While working for a major medical company as an operating room surgical specialist, she decided to commit her life to Alternative Health Care. Dr. Anna received her Doctorate in Chiropractic from Life University in 2002.

Dr. V and Dr. Anna are frequently asked to give lectures on wellness health care. Recently they served on a women’s discussion panel with other doctors presented by Angela Holiday, founder of Women to Women. A talk by the doctors on Ergonomics to the Fayette Chamber of Commerce was well received by its members to show how important the correct chair, height of tables and placement of monitors can be in preventing and alleviating neck and shoulder pain. After practicing health care in Perry, Georgia for over fifteen years, Dr. V established the successful, growing wellness clinic, Health Concepts, in Fayetteville. To better serve you, the office has now moved across the parking lot to a more spacious, refurbished office, located at 560 North Jeff Davis, on the corner of North Jeff Davis and North Park Drive. You may call, 770-710-8785 to set up an appointment for a consultation and receive information on free workshops, or visit www.healthconceptsga.com.