CHRONIC DISORDERS - Tired of falling through the cracks of managed care?
Functional Medicine diagnostics and treatment brings new hope to suffers of the most perplexing disorders.
Tired of feeling tired ... stiff ... achy? Perhaps you’re plagued by insomnia, allergies, bloating, diarrhea, or other stressful conditions ... Chronic disorders can produce a maze of symptoms that mimic a known diseases yet defy conventional treatment - leading to misdiagnosis and frustration. Functional Medicine addresses these “difficult,” chronic disorders by correctly identifying (and treating) their root causes.
More and more Americans are “slipping through the cracks” - of the U.S. health care system - and falling victim to a growing number of debilitating “disorders.” “Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, CHS/FHS, GERD, Irritable Bowel, PCOS, and other new terms are rapidly entering the lexicon of American medical distress.
What do these disorders have in common?
* Wide ranging, misleading symptoms - lead to misdiagnosis
* Hidden, systemic causes - often due to subtle toxicities, and years of abuse and/or neglect.
* Exacerbated (or even brought on) by aging process - in younger years, the body’s’s natural resilience managed the imbalances
* Require functional medicine physician, for successful diagnosis and treatment
* Require substantial and varying amounts of physician’s time to treat, depending on patient age, history, health, type of disorder and other variables
Finally, the Widening “Cracks” in the System…
These modern disorders exhibit a natural resistance to the basic (allopathic) disease-treatment paradigm: a philosophy near-universally embraced by the insurance-based health care system that categorizing health care options according to quantifiable diseases, and treatments. The insurers prefer to pay for only for justifiable treatments (that prevent or cure disease, alleviate suffering, and pain) - which must be quantifiable, with a defined beginning, frequency and end.
Modern disorders, however, break the rules, by masking themselves behind a somewhat confusing array of symptoms, which may resemble a number of other diseases or disorders. As a result, patients usually take part in a medical wild goose chase as they bounce from specialist to specialist, only to find that their disease is either pronounced untreatable (by that specialty) or incurable, or simply doesn’t exist. Unfortunately it usually does. These disorders are very real.
At the “end of the specialist trail” the patient eventually reaches the (previously mentioned) “crack”, and which point the patient drops through the crack - and the referrals stop. The final one often being the name of a psychiatrist or other mental health care professional. This can actually be a good thing, because it drives the patient to break the cycle and try something new - i.e. to search outside normal medical channels for help. When this happens, the patient often picks up the trail to real help: which is usually in the form of a functional practitioner.
Functional Medicine has been growing in the US for over a decade, with a national practitioner base numbering in the thousands. Practitioners come in many flavors, specializing in areas such as CFS/FMS, Women’s Issues, Intestinal, and Allergenic disorders. Doctor Terlinsky also specializes in Women’s issues, and weight control. (bariatrics)
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