Chiropractor & Functional Medicine New York

Chiropractor NYC

Chiropractic is a natural healing method that is aimed at allowing your body and nervous system to work together optimally. Your nervous system (consisting of the brain, spinal cord, superficial nerves and special senses) regulates and coordinates good cooperation between all organs of your body and helps you adapt to your environment. Births, falls, accidents, incorrect posture or stress, among other things, can cause vertebrae to become disrupted, causing nerve communication to be disrupted. In many cases this causes complaints, but this does not necessarily have to happen immediately. Chiropractors are trained to detect these problems and correct them safely and professionally so that your body can recover.

Functional Medicine NYC

WHAT MAKES FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE SO DIFFERENT?

Functional medicine involves understanding the cause, prevention and treatment of complex, chronic diseases. The quality characteristics of the functional medicine approach include the following: The patient is central. The focus of functional medicine is on patient-focused care, on approaching health as a positive vitality, and not just on the absence of disease. An integral, science-based approach to health. Functional doctors also look upstream to view the complexity of interactions in a patient's past, his physiology, and his lifestyle that may be the cause of his illness. Each patient is approached from his unique genetic make-up together with both internal (body and mind) and external factors (physical and social environment) that influence his global functioning. Integration of the best medical practices. Functional medicine integrates traditional Western medical practice with what is sometimes considered "alternative" or integrative medicine. Emphasis is placed on prevention through nutrition and exercise; the use of the most advanced laboratory tests and other diagnostic techniques; prescribing (a combination of) medicines and homeopathy, supplements, therapeutic nutrition plans, detoxification programs or stress management techniques. Functional medicine is becoming a real current in medicine in various countries. In the United States, the Institute for Fuctional medicine trains doctors in this approach.