BURNOUT SYNDROME / OVERWORKING TREATMENT

 relaxation and revitalization of the central nervous system;

 treatment of the tisular and organic disorders;
 relaxation of the muscular system;
 treatment of the secondary affections;
 recovery of the physical and emotional balance of the body

Used to describe the symptoms of physical

and emotional overstrain, the term of burnout
syndrome refers especially to the consequences of
overworking. If in the past it was the harsh working
conditions that overworked a person (overcrowded,
ill-ventilated and poorly-lit rooms; very low or very
high temperatures; rude tools and equipment, etc.,
nowadays it is too heavy an amount of activities
and responsibilities, prolonged working hours, less
time of rest, relaxation and recreation; less time
spent with family and friends, professional
demands exceeding the employee’s training, very
high standards of productivity and efficiency, etc.,
that does it.

One other aspect that must be taken into consideration is the personal perception of the
situations that we deal with on daily basis. A stress factor may be positive or negative. It is
our mind that gives these factors an emotional charge, matching information from the
environment with former experiences and with our present emotional state. Therefore, tasks
and events in our professional or private life may bear a positive charge for some people or a
negative one for others.

In time, professional pressure erodes the individual’s emotional and physical resources
and gives birth to:

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  chronic fatigue, asthenia;
 nervousness, altered disposition, anxiety, depression;
 emotional distress, apathy or indifference;
 depersonalization and deterioration of interrelationships, dependence on people
around;
 diminished self confidence; negative self appraisal and self criticism;
 poorer professional and personal performance;
 attention, concentration and memory disorders; also disorders of information
actualization;
 muscular and articular tension;
 headaches and cephalalgia;
 insomnia and sleep disorders;
 loss of apetite and digestive disorders;
 disorders of sexual dynamics.

It is believed from a medical point of view that, if prolonged, a state of professional

overstrain will trigger a number of specific reactions in the body. They damage the organic,
metabolic, immune and cardiovascular activity. Consequently, a good ground is created for
the onset of a number of more serious diseases.

In the traditional medicine, treatment of burnout syndrome is centered upon relaxation

and tension release of the central nervous system; reconstruction of the hypo oxygenated or
poorly vascularised cerebral areas; relieving the osteoarticular and muscular system of stress;
dealing with the tisular and the organic disorders; balancing metabolism and immunity;
improving concentration and memory; restoring the physical and emotional balance.

Acupuncture procedures and medicinal herb extracts tonify the thesaurus organs and
the cerebral areas, regulating their activity: lungs, to improve cell oxygenation; kidneys, to
revitalize the body; liver and spleen-pancreas, to purify and to detoxify the body, but also to
manage a better absorbtion of the food nutrients.

The physician-patient dialogue is centered upon the professional and personal

reevaluation; reorganization of the emotional and affective life and upon stress relieving.
Consequently, the intellectual and emotional resources will be reactivated and the patient will
get reintegrated into his professional and familial environment.

Depending on the particular features of each body under treatment, the treatment
protocols are individualized, so as to cope with all the necessities of a patient and so as to treat
all the associated diseases, which may be cardiovascular, digestive, of the spinal column or
ophthalmic.

Cardiac Diseases and Hypertension

Stress and physical and/or intellectual stress; anxiety and nervousness; career
discontentment accumulate a nervous tension with bad consequences upon the cardiovascular
system, especially upon artery tension. Hypertension is betrayed by profuse perspiration,
palpitation, tachycardia, headaches, fatigue, vertigoes, insomnia, tinnitus, pressure in the
temples and on the nape, blurred vision, numbness in the arms, etc. Should artery tension

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show high values over a long period of time, and tension fits are also recorded, there is risk of
myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, retina hemorrhages, or of other, more
complex, diseases (myocardial infarction).

Disorders of the Digestive Tube

Digestive disorders occur mainly because, in the absence of regular meal hours, foods
are quickly ingested; people eat foods with low nutritional value or fast foods. Excess of
coffee, instant coffee, and fizzy juices upset the gastric balance. As symptoms, the following
can be mentioned: bloating, nausea, burning esophagus, pains of the xiphoid process, soft
stools or constipation, slow digestive transit.

Digestive discomfort upsets emotional processes. Therefore concentration and

memory are diminished and so are body’s resistance and endurance. Immunity is affected, too,
taking into account that a balanced intestinal flora helps maintain a strong immunity.

Unless the alimentary habits are corrected, there is threat of more serious diseases,
such as: gastro duodenal ulcer, gastritis, hepatic and pancreatic (pancreatitis) diseases, biliary
dyskinesia, biliary calculus, obesity, etc.

Intestinal transit, hepatic and

pancreatic functions are restored with the help
of a diet with detoxifying and revitalizing
effects; also by stimulating the energy centers
that regulate the recovery of the intestinal flora;
also by administering medicinal herb products
with detoxifying, antispastic and cicatrizing
action; protective of the digestive tube;
antiseptic and antifungal action; regulatory of
the intestinal transit; hepatic stimulatory and
protective; with cholagogic action (it helps
evacuating bile into duodenum).

Disorders of the Spinal Column

Scoliosis, kyphosis, inflammation of the vertebral discs, of ligaments, and

paravertebral muscles are pathologic manifestations caused by a bad body posture, which is
maintained for a long time during work.

Spinal column disorders must be treated without delay, especially because of the
negative impact they have upon the entire body. There are many nerve centers in the spinal
column. Therefore, any vertebral displacement will affect their activity and, consequently, the
activity of the innervated organs.

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 Cerebral circulation will also suffer (because of a damaged spinal column:
spondylosis, dischopathy): poor cerebral oxygenation, concentration and memory disorders,
vertigo, headaches, vision disorders, etc.

Treatment of the spinal column disorders involves acupuncture and osteoarticular

manipulation, but also medicinal herb products that optimize cerebral oxygenation by
stimulating blood circulation; they also fortify muscles by restoring muscle tone.

Ophthalmic Disorders

Work at computer for more than eight hours a day, without a break at every hour;
reading of official documents without a pause and working rooms without natural light or
poorly lit strain eye muscles.

The accumulated eye tension will travel to the optic nerves’ ramifications, posing the
threat of irreversible lesions. Vision grows poor because of overstrain, and an extra effort is
required to fulfill professional duties.

Eye tension will be restored, too, within physiological limits with the help of certain
medicinal herb extracts, which restore local metabolism, tonify and fortify eye muscles, but
also by acupuncture procedures with similar action. All these therapies will recover the
elasticity of the eye muscles and they will restore the circuit of ocular humors.

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