For Holistic Health Practitioners The Time Is NOW
Now is the time to enter a holistic career, so states an article I just read on mylocalhealth.com. As a chiropractor, I am very excited about the shift that is apparently taking place in the minds of Americans and offers of wealth of opportunities for those individuals who seek to help humanity in this way.
The article suggests that holistic practitioners are “going to be poised” to help the growing number of people in the U.S. who want to take better care of themselves and their health. Why the sudden change in a country that has been allopathically-focused for over a century? It appears that Americans are turning to alternative forms of treatment because they are realizing that conventional healthcare in the United States, though reasonably effective at fighting disease, does nothing about preventing disease in the first place.
As people become increasingly aware that their lifestyle affects their health, the industry for holistic practitioners is going to explode. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, individuals with natural health degrees can anticipate growing job prospects. They project that the employment rate in alternative medicine will grow around 42 percent between 2004 and 2014. According to Forbes Magazine, as massage therapy becomes accepted by more insurance companies, the massage therapy market is expected to see 20 percent growth through 2016, as cited by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There will be 24,000 health care professionals, including physicians, trained in oriental medicine by 2010 and the number of chiropractors will nearly double from 55,000 to 103,000.
When it comes to health, it is fast becoming crucial for individuals to become proactive instead of reactive, i.e., instead of looking for a health solution once we have misused our bodies to the point of illness, they can make the lifestyle changes necessary to prevent many diseases in the first place. And, many individuals are doing just that. A survey sent out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to 23,000 adults nationwide in 2007 found that Americans spend $34 billion annually on alternative medicine. Approximately one-third of adults use alternative medicine. That includes a wide range of services from meditation and yoga to dietary supplements. Alternative medicine now accounts for more than 11 percent of out-of-pocket spending on health care in the U.S. The report concludes that 38 million adults visited alternative medicine practitioners in 2007. People spent an estimated $27 billion in 1997.
Full article and resources at: mylocalhealth.com (linked above)
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