What is the functional medicine approach?
What is the functional medicine approach?
The Functional Medicine Approach. Functional Medicine is a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness. As the graphic illustrates, a diagnosis can be the result of more than one cause.
What is a timeline in functional medicine?
Timeline. As an intake tool for organizing the patient’s history chronologically, the Functional Medicine Timeline is a graphical representation that allows clinicians to identify factors that predispose, provoke, and contribute to pathological changes and dysfunctional responses in the patient.
What is the matrix in functional medicine?
The Functional Medicine Matrix. The Matrix is akin to a web decoder—it organizes what seems to be disparate issues into a complete story to help the clinician gain a comprehensive perspective of the patient and subsequently facilitate discussion of complex, chronic disease with the patient.
What is IFM find a practitioner?
IFM’s Find A Practitioner tool is the largest referral network in Functional Medicine, created to help patients locate Functional Medicine practitioners anywhere in the world. IFM Certified Practitioners are listed first in the search results, given their extensive education in Functional Medicine.
How is IFM celebrating 30 years of functional medicine?
IFM is celebrating 30 years of functional medicine with a one-of-a-kind video series featuring conversations with pioneers in the field about our history and how far the field has come over the last three decades. IFM is dedicated to providing both patients and practitioners with reliable resources and information about COVID-19.
