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What is Osteopathic Medicine?
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Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine use a unique whole-person approach to help prevent illness and injury. - What is a DO? Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, or DOs, are fully licensed physicians who practice in all areas of medicine. Emphasizing a whole-person approach to treatment and care, DOs are trained to listen and partner with their patients to help them get healthy and stay well. Learn more about the DO difference, and compare physician training requirements to those required for other types of clinicians.
- DOs receive special training in the Musculoskeletal system, your body’s interconnected system of Nerves, Muscles and Bones. By combining this knowledge with the latest advances in medical technology, they offer patients the most comprehensive care available in medicine today.
- From their first days of education and training, DOs learn to:
- Look beyond symptoms of illness and disease to examine the whole patient.
- Partner with patients to help prevent illness and injury.
- Use their hands to diagnose illness and injury and increase your body’s natural tendency toward self- healing.
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What is Naprapathy?
- Naprapathic Medicine employs manual medicine, nutritional counseling, and therapeutic modalities, specializing in the treatment of pain caused by connective tissue disorders.
- Connective tissue supports and contains the structures of the entire body, including the spinal column, surrounding muscles, joints and all articulations of the body. It includes ligaments, tendons, fascia, inter-vertebral discs, and cartilage.
- A connective tissue disorder as treated by Naprapathic care can be characterized by abnormally rigid and/or contracted (strained) ligaments, tendons and related muscles. Disorders such as these may create interference with the nerve pathways, in addition to impeding circulation of blood and lymph. When this occurs, it can often result in pain and inflammation to the affected area of the body.
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What is Functional Medicine?
- The Functional Medicine model is an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach that empowers patients and practitioners to work together to address the underlying causes of disease and promote optimal wellness. It requires a detailed understanding of each patient’s genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors and leverages that data to direct personalized treatment plans that lead to improved patient outcomes.
- By addressing root cause, rather than symptoms, practitioners become oriented to identifying the complexity of disease. They may find one condition has many different causes and, likewise, one cause may result in many different conditions. As a result, Functional Medicine treatment targets the specific manifestations of disease in each individual.
- Often, individual genetic and environmental research is conducted to obtain a deeper knowledge of the patient’s health status. Understanding the biochemical individuality of a patient can lead to the underlying causes of disease and furthermore, the prevention of additional health risks in the future. Functional Medicine has gained much popularity, even spurring the creation of the Institute for Functional Medicine. Personalized medicine is without a doubt, the future model of medical care.
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What is Personalised Medicine?
- Personalised Medicine is a move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to the treatment and care of patients with a particular condition, to one which uses new approaches to better manage patients’ health and targets therapies to achieve the best outcomes in the management of a patient’s disease or predisposition to disease.
- We are all unique. Our health is determined by our inherent differences combined with our lifestyles and environment. By combining and analyzing information about our genome, with other clinical and diagnostic information, patterns can be identified that can help to determine our individual risk of developing disease; detect illness earlier; and, determine the most effective interventions to help improve our health, be they medicines, lifestyle choices, or even simple changes in diet.
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What is Integrative Medicine?
- Complementary medicine is used to describe therapeutic techniques that are not part of conventional medicine (also called "regular," "standard," or "mainstream" medicine). Complementary therapies are used as a "complement" or addition to conventional medicine. Because complementary medicine can be combined or integrated with conventional medical treatment, it is also called "integrative medicine."
