The Principles of Functional Medicine

Dr. Jane Son and Dr. Michael Hwang at Sugar Loaf Pain & Rehab serving Suwanee, GA, are experienced chiropractors. They offer comprehensive care and use the principles of functional medicine to treat patients from a holistic perspective, rather than focusing solely on symptoms.

What Are the Primary Principles of Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is an alternative approach to traditional healthcare that adjusts to the fact that patients want to maintain a higher quality of life as they live longer than ever before.

The primary goal of functional medicine is to figure out what is disrupting the optimum functioning of your body and address it. To do this successfully, functional medicine adheres to the following principles.

Patient-Centered

Every patient is viewed as an individual with unique needs. Functional medicine practitioners look beyond physical health and consider aspects of emotional, mental, and spiritual health, socio-economic circumstances, and personal experiences.

Holistic Healthcare

Functional medicine aims to treat the whole patient and doesn’t view symptoms or illness in isolation. Patients are greater than the sum of their parts.

Self-Healing

Functional medicine practitioners like Dr. Son and Dr. Hwang at Sugar Loaf Pain & Rehab in Suwanee, GA, work to stimulate natural healing within the body, using, where possible, natural, non-invasive treatments to support and stimulate healing from within.

Preventative Care

Functional medicine is proactive and relies on the adage that prevention is better than cure.

Evidence-based Care

When there is illness or ill-health, practitioners use a wide variety of tools available today to research, assess, and diagnose patients combining common sense with the natural and allopathic.

Natural Interventions

In functional medicine, natural options are the first line of defense to restore you to better health. However, functional medicine intervention can be paired with traditional methods when necessary for the well-being of the patient.

Education

Functional medicine practitioners are also educators. This is because patient education is vital. Patients who are informed take better care of their health and learn when to act to reset and/or optimize their health.

Vitality

We encourage our patients to set achievable health goals so they may maintain the highest levels of health possible.

Responsibility

Practicing functional medicine requires patient collaboration and encourages the principle of being responsible for your health.

Contact Information

Dr. Son and Dr. Hwang at Sugar Loaf Pain & Rehab serving Suwanee, GA, believe that better health equals a better life. For more information about our services, and the principles of functional medicine, call us now at (770) 817-3399 to schedule an appointment.