Chiropractic Holistic health care is not itself a method of treatment, but instead an approach to how treatment should be applied. Traditional medical philosophy approached patient care as simply attempting to correct physical symptoms, using standardized methods such as the prescription of drugs or the undertaking of surgery, while the patient is only passively involved. In contrast, holistic approaches to health are wide and varied. When the concepts of holistic health are put into practice within the health care system, the approach to therapy takes on a new dimension; traditional medical care is expanded to encompass a broad spectrum of therapies coordinated to meet the totality of a particular individual. The focus is no longer on just the disease, but the whole person. The role of the patient also changes in learning how choices, actions and attitudes affect the present condition, and how one can be an active participant in the healing process
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