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PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT

FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

At Pioneer Comprehensive Medical, we believe that a balanced approach to health is best.  We also believe health and well-being should be a way of life; a way of being. Our purpose is to assist patients during times of illness to educate our patients about health promotion and disease prevention.  We provide the most progressive, research driven, and functional medicine available. This entails a holistic approach to each person as an individual.

A holistic approach means we take into account the emotional, mental and spiritual as well as the physical. It also means we are open to all proven forms of treatment.  Although it may be semantics, we are not an alternative clinic as alternative medicine is a term often used by the uninformed to imply that it is unproven. This is untrue. Many so called alternative therapies have good research based outcomes. As we follow the research very closely, we keep up on which therapies may be best for each circumstance. Just because some of these therapies are not usually administered within the typical western-based medical model or covered by insurance does not mean they are ineffective.  This cutting edge approach is referred to as functional medicine.

FOCUS

Our focus is on disease prevention and treatment with therapeutic lifestyle changes.  For most of the chronic diseases that affect mankind, therapeutic lifestyle changes should be done first. This fact has been forgotten and even labeled alternative by many so called experts. We take the Hippocratic oath to “first do no harm” very seriously. We are cautious about resorting to drugs and surgeries just because they may work faster at treating symptoms, especially when it’s at the expense of the safety and efficacy of therapeutic lifestyle modification.  Western medicine is very effective when something needs to be done quickly, but it is highly symptom oriented and often does little to correct the source of the problem. This is particularly problematic when treating chronic illness as most of western medicine is centered on an acute care model. No one method holds all the answers. A balanced approach is always best. When possible, therapeutic lifestyle changes are preferable to drugs and surgery.  This doesn’t mean drugs and surgeries don’t have their place, but taking the initiative to live a healthy lifestyle and perform early screening is ideal.