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What is Functional Medicine?
Dating as far back as the 1950s, people began searching for alternatives to the conventional medicine approach. Ultimately, the term ‘Functional Medicine” was coined by Jeffery Bland, Ph.D., in 1990. This type of medicine uses a systems-based approach that focuses on uncovering and addressing the root cause of the patient’s symptoms/disease. Functional medicine recognizes that there may be more than one factor contributing to the patient’s illness. Prevention and restoring homeostasis are the primary focuses of functional medicine. Individualized factors such as diet, stress, sleep, movement, and genetics are considered in treatment.
This tends to be more of a personalized and tailored approach to wellness. It is considered a patient-centered care system seeking to understand and uncover why the patient is ill vs. simply treating symptoms with a ‘bandaid approach.’ As our traditional healthcare system fails at restoring health and wellness in many cases, more ractitioners have chosen to take a holistic approach to wellness and further their education in functional medicine training.
What is Conventional Medicine?
Conventional medicine is often referred to as traditional Western medicine and has been around since the 16th-18th centuries. It may also be referred to as allopathic, orthodox, modern, or mainstream medicine. Conventional medicine focuses on disease detection and management using anatomy and symptoms for diagnosis.
Once the patient has been labeled with a diagnosis, a treatment plan is generally developed to mitigate the symptoms that have occurred. Within this system, healthcare providers such as medical doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, etc., use an anatomical-symptoms-based approach to diagnose disease.
As the incidence of chronic disease continues to rise, and patients become more complex, it is increasingly difficult for traditional medical providers to help patients truly heal. Doctors are pressured to see more and more patients, which means less and less time with each patient. This is one reason we are seeing a rise in medical providers seeking functional training and consumers seeking this type of care.
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