The philosophy of Integrated Medicine is to treat the whole person and not just the area of the body that is showing disease.The patient is assessed to see how much the diseased area is impacting the whole body, mind and spirit. This is done through taking a very detailed history and then running tests. Treatment is aimed at treating the patient’s whole body, mind and spirit.

Treatment requires the doctor and patient to work together in partnership to heal the patient. Conventional Western medicine is combined with complementary treatments such as nutritional or herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage, osteopathy, yoga, stress reduction techniques, hypnotherapy and reiki to treat the whole person. Therapies used have had years of clinical experience and evidence to support their usage.

Although most conditions lend themselves to this approach – at the Health Doctors we often treat the following: