What is Functional Diagnostic Medicine?

Functional Medicine:

Frequently, when you seek medical care you do not have a clinically identifiable disease or pathology. Your problems are based on “derangements or blockages in normal physiology” and they present as dysfunctions in one or more organ system that left unchecked would ultimately lead to disease and pathology.

Have you been told that everything looks normal based on the standard tests routinely run by your doctor, yet still feel like junk?

Functional medicine practitioners know that most of our patients are by no means “normal”, but need help getting into a state of optimal health.

We use interpretative and diagnostic methods that can help us assess a wide range of problems that are more suggestive of sub-clinical or functional problems.

Sadly, many people fall through the cracks of the current medical paradigm because you are neither sick from a pathological perspective (no tissue changes, no findings on diagnostic testing etc.) nor are you 100% well. So you fall into a gray area of medicine that we need a different approach to in order to appropriately deal with it.

Functional medicine is the answer because we are taught how to be the ultimate medical detective.

Once I begin my training I will soon have slots in the schedule opened up specifically for functional medicine appointments, so stay tuned!

Are you ready to get to the root cause of your health issues and start your journey to optimal health with Dr. Amanda’s help?