Integrative Medicine collaborates with conventional and alternative medicines to address the biological, psychological, environmental, social and spiritual aspects of health and illness.
The quality of the practitioner-patient relationship is an essential contributor to the healing process.
Illness is a dysfunction of the whole person, rather than simply a physical disorder or a random isolated event. All factors that influence health, wellness and disease are taken into consideration.
Practitioners utilize all appropriate healing sciences to facilitates the body’s innate healing response
Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive are used whenever possible.
Integrative Medicine is evidence-based and open to new models of care.
Practitioners educate patients and the community on health risks and disease prevention.
Encourages a collaborative approach to patient care among practitioners.
Practitioners work toward the personal incorporation of the principles of Integrative Medicine to lead patients by their own example and lifestyle choices.
