Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine is client-centred, personalised and focuses on the root cause of disease as opposed to just treating symptoms.

It focuses on the whole person and every treatment is tailored to the individual. It results from the marriage of medical professionals concerned with prevention and root cause treatment and naturopathic practitioners who have always valued methods which support the body’s own natural healing mechanisms.

This marriage has produced really in-depth methods of assessment which embrace the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of health; personalised, natural methods of treatment e.g. detoxification programmes, hydrotherapy, structural realignment, nutritional prescription, lifestyle management, stress management techniques and herbal formulae; a meaningful therapeutic alliance between client and practitioner in which a client actually heals; and finally the use of functional tests which help the practitioner work out what is actually happening deep down in the client’s system.

It differs from conventional medicine in that it focuses on root cause within an individual and addresses these on an individual basis as opposed to making a diagnosis based on signs and symptoms and offering generic treatments in response to that diagnosis.

Each approach has its place in your healing journey.