What Is Naturopathic Medicine and What Can It Do For Me?
What Is Naturopathic Medicine?
Naturopathic Medicine focuses care based on assessment of the whole person. This means that I take the time to get to know who you are in all aspects of your life. Together, we determine a care plan that best fits your lifestyle. For instance, we learn about your health, lifestyle habits, family, work, recreation, hobbies, and more to provide treatment with a personalized approach. Naturopathic Medicine providers have similar basic training that conventional primary medicine providers do. Therefore, this enables us to assess your condition and care for you in a similar fashion. Additional treatment options provide you with more choices for your care.
Typical appointments are longer than the standard, usually between one-half to one hour. Naturopathic Medicine has the ability to utilize a variety of different therapies, based on what is most appropriate for your needs. For example, these therapies can include: herbal medicine, vitamin or mineral supplements, prescription medicine, and energy medicine. Additional options, such as: Physical medicine, IV therapy, Homeopathy and other treatments are dependent upon provider.
What Can Naturopathic Medicine Do For Me?
Naturopathic medicine is available for all ages, from newborn to the final stages of life. We provide primary care for most clients or adjunctive care if you already have a primary provider.
However, obstetric and cancer care are exceptions in which we cannot act as primary care providers. In these cases, we can provide care for other conditions as needed.
One main focus of Naturopathic medicine is to provide care that starts with the least invasive option.
The purpose behind this is to strengthen your body and its ability to heal itself when given the right circumstances. For instance, in today’s demanding, stressful lifestyles, we could all use a little help in strengthening our defenses. What this means is that we help you become the healthiest, most resilient version of yourself.
Do you feel like your healthcare is missing something?
Does your doctor have the time to really get to know who you are? Are you being cared for based on all aspects of your life, or just based on your symptoms?
Now don’t get me wrong, sometimes that is what is needed, but not for the majority of the healthcare we receive.
