Defining Integrative Medicine
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The patient and practitioner are equal partners in the healing process, each playing different roles.
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Factors influencing health, wellness, and disease including mind, spirit, and body are all taken into consideration for personalized treatment.
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Appropriate utilization of conventional and alternative methods help to facilitate the body’s innate healing response naturally.
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Natural and less invasive techniques are prioritized during effective interventions.
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Integrative medicine is a finely-tuned concept that balances conventional medicine and alternative therapies.
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Good medicine is good science, always progressing with inquiry-driven purposes and open to new paradigms.
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Health promotion and prevention of illnesses are just as important as effective treatment.
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Practitioners of integrative medicine should live by and therefore exemplify its principles to commit and truly understand the self-exploration and development that results from this unique healthcare method.