Functional Medicine* and Integrative Wellness requires Doctors to engage in further education outside of their core training and within their scope of practice.
If you have ever had stiff, achy, or swollen joints then you’ve experienced arthritis symptoms. You’re painfully aware of how it prevents you if you suffer from arthritis. We provide arthritis care and create a personalized treatment plan centered around wellness. Our process includes detailed laboratory testing, a deep history, nutritional wellness, evaluating harmful environmental toxins you may have been exposed to, intestinal microbes, hormone disbalance and more.
Regrettably, at least 50 million Americans suffer from arthritis and two-thirds of those affected are under the age of 65.
Nearly half will also have one other health condition such as obesity, diabetes, anxiety, depression, gout, or cardiovascular disease. These conditions have a lot of things in common — most notably that they are inflammatory in character. Conventional responses to this condition stay concentrated on masking the pain with an analgesic, or painkilling medication — and finally operation. These remedies never restore joint function and eliminate or don’t addresses the actual cause of arthritic inflammation.
There are arthritis subtypes that have qualities and unique symptoms. These subtypes are broken up Degenerative/Inflammatory and Autoimmune Degenerative/Inflammatory
Kinds of Arthritis contains:
- Osteoarthritis (most common type)
- Gout
- Pseudogout
- Fibromyalgia
- Degenerative disc disease of the spine
Autoimmune types of Arthritis include:
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Lupus
- Psoriatic arthritis (associated with Psoriasis of Skin or Nails)
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Reactive Arthritis
- Systemic Sclerosis
These factors can contribute to the development of arthritis:
- Physical Trauma
- Leaky gut
- Diet including food immune reactivity
- Prior infection
- Environmental toxin exposure
- Genetics
Southwest Functional Medicine treats arthritis differently. We concentrate our efforts on finding which root factors are contributing to your subtype of arthritis, then custom tailor a treatment package designed to cure the body with that exposure and then to remove the offending root cause contributors.
Our purpose is to restore natural health and operate and to minimize the usage of symptom masking prescription drugs. During the treatment process, benefits will be seen by many individuals to their memory, disposition, digestion, joint pain, inflammation, metabolism, and energy. We are also setting your health back to lasting wellness by treating your arthritis in this fashion.
In case you have arthritis, then we can help. Please contact Southwest Functional Medicine to set up a consultation at 915-613-5303 or email us at Coach@ElPasoFunctionalMedicine.com
*Additional Education: M.S.A.C.P – Licensed in Texas & New Mexico. Scope of Practice Governed and Determined by State License & State Board Rules & Regulations.