The traditional Biomedical Model views the body structures and subsequent pain as a “tissue issue only” wherein, when something is broken, it must be fixed via intervention (ie pharmaceutical, injection, therapeutic, and/or surgical, etc.).

The Biomedical Model essentially views the body as a machine.

Counter this with new and emerging research supporting a more all-encompassing approach of the body as a garden.

This perspective appreciates the body’s innate healing ability which can be cultivated and influenced by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors (i.e. exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress management, etc.).

In the body as a garden analogy, pain is more appropriately identified as a complex, dynamic and emergent process without direct 1:1 correlation to tissue damage/abnormality.