Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains how mindset shapes physical healing in orthopedics. He argues that believing in recovery and mentally focusing on cells repairing themselves can change biological outcomes. Clinicians should ask patients to stay present and mentally program positive results during treatment.
And so if we're believing in healing, if we're believing that these cells are working to the best of our ability, then they probably do.
We find that particularly the mental component, being focused on healing and being focused on our cells working the way that we want them to work is very, very effective in integrative orthopedics. And so when we have a patient come in to have a treatment, one of my asks is, I ask them to be really mindful and present and to really program a great outcome for themselves. We know that our biology responds to our mind in the direction that our mindset is taking us. And so if we're believing in healing, if we're believing that these cells are working to the best of our ability, then they probably do, and they actually do.
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