Physical Treatments

Treating physical illness has high importance in today's world. The development and distribution of drugs, treatments, and therapies have a high priority. They have been so highly prioritized that in some cases, legislators have tried to mandate vaccines. For example, some states have tried to mandate the new HPV vaccines to women of a certain age, as a cervical cancer vaccine.

Treatment: Sublingual immunotherapy, or allergy drops , taken under the tongue.

Why important: Serves as an alternative to injection therapy, or allergy shots. Injection therapy is not recommended for pregnant women or very young children. Unlike injection therapy, sublingual immunotherapy is safe for pregnant women, children as young as 18 months, and those sensitive to injections.

Additional information: Allerdrops, a type of sublingual immunotherapy drops , specially formulated for each individual's needs use the results of an IgE blood testing. Most patients experience relief from allergy symptoms and can reduce use of allergy/asthma medicine within months or weeks of starting Allerdrops and can find themselves allergy free as soon as eight months to three years of treatment.

Treatment: Seed brachytherapy , or titanium capsules containing the cesium-131 isotope implanted directly into the malignant prostate gland. The capsules release low doses of radiation directly into the malignant tissue after placement in precise locations by doctors using ultrasound and digital imagery technology.

Why important: Seed brachytherapy provides an alternative to watchful waiting or radical prostatectomy, in which the prostate gland undergoes surgical removal. Complications from prostatectomy may result in incontinence and impotence. Watchful Waiting or Active Surveillance consists of patient and doctor's observation of the prostrate without direct treatment.

Additional information: An urologist, radiation oncologist, and radiation physicist generally performs the seed brachytherapy procedure in an outpatient setting. After receiving general or local anesthesia, the patient relaxes while the doctors use an ultrasound to determine where to deposit the seeds for the brachytherapy.

Treatment: Surgery deals with the diagnosis and treatment of injury, deformity, and disease by manual and instrumental means. It can involve the removal or replacement of diseased organ or tissue.

Why important: Surgery can save lives, as with organ transplants, or can alleviate pain and enable someone to have a higher quality of life, such as having wisdom teeth removed.

Additional information: Most operations are not emergencies, and are considered as elective surgery