What is Integrative Medicine?

Integrative medicine is an approach to health care that puts the patient at the center of focus.

It seeks to restore and maintain health and wellness across a person’s lifespan by understanding the patient’s unique set of circumstances. Integrative medicine addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences that affect health. Through personalizing care, integrative medicine goes beyond the treatment of symptoms to address all the causes of an illness.

Integrative medicine is not the same as alternative medicine, which refers to an approach to healing that is utilized in place of conventional therapies, or complementary medicine, which refers to healing modalities that are used to complement allopathic (traditional) approaches. If the defining principles are applied, care can be integrative regardless of which modalities are utilized.

What’s really important

Dr. Pichardo approaches healing from an integrative, listening-centered standpoint. She looks at the whole person, from personal history, family history and lifestyle. She believes that integrative medicine's emphasis on personalized medicine, delivered through a multi-dimensional approach that incorporates evidence-based practices, offers a basis for a successful therapeutic outcome.

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