What Do You Mean by Active Care?
By Steven Hoffman, DC
First let me explain the opposite, “passive care”. As the term implies, something is being done to you with no participation on your part. This type of care predominates in the current “disease care” system where a pill or spinal adjustment is given with no instruction on how to keep the problem from recurring or happening in the first place!
Active care emphasizes participation and education on how to prevent problems or keep them from recurring. Below is a comparison chart to further clarify the difference.
| Active Care | Passive Care |
| Increases your knowledge | no education |
| Inside out healing | attempts to heal from outside in |
| Reconstruction | patch jobs |
| Pain confrontation | pain avoidance behavior |
| Body awareness | no body awareness |
| No labels, focus on function | labeled with disease name |
| -Goal setting | -live out diagnosis |
| -Self-empowering | -looking for a “fix” |
| Responsibility | no responsibility |
| Takes energy | easy way out |
| Larger investment | minimal investment |
| Long-term relief | short-term relief |
| Independent patient | dependent patient |
Our current passive health care system is failing. The US ranks #1 in health care spending while ranking a dismal 37th in overall health. Do not fall victim to the current system. Educate yourself and then, most importantly, educate others about the power of active care and the concept of taking responsibility for your own health.
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