Integrative Medical Care
The goals of medicine encompass the promotion of health and the prevention of disease, the restoration of health, the relief of symptoms, the facilitation of healing.
Integrative medicine has a valuable role in achieving these goals.
Being a qualified medical doctor with comprehensive vision I use conventional medicine together with integrative medical disciplines – such as homeopathy and psycho-neuro- endocrinology – to understand, analyse and provide care, tailored to the needs of each person.
Integrative medicine emphasizes health and healing, rather than symptom suppression.
Moreover, integrative medicine is medicine for the individual as a whole. A human being is not just a body, the human being is body, mind and soul. Since integrative medicine considers the human body as a whole, we speak of “personalized medicine”.
Deeply rooted in conventional medicine, my practice includes and integrates complementary disciplines for cases where conventional medicine cannot help or cannot help enough, such as:
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS)
- Chronic pain
- Post viral syndromes
- Long (persistent) Covid
- Chronic fatigue
- Rheumatic symptoms
- And many more
Life-threatening diseases
Also, this practice provides integrative supportive care to individuals facing life-threatening diseases, and for their loved ones. In integrative medicine we prefer to use the term life-challenging instead of life-threatening diseases.
The diagnosis and treatment of life-challenging diseases can be very stressful both for the diagnosed and for his/her loved ones. The stress, insecurity and fear consume a lot of energy, especially when you have to be fit and strong to deal with it and get through it. Sometimes stress-related and-or emotional complaints do not appear until the post-care period. The role of the integrative care provider is to guide and support you in your own healing journey.
Integrative medical support can be beneficial for:
- Strengthening
- Enhancing your own innate recovery capacity and resilience
- Improving quality of life
- Energizing
- Symptom control
- Calming
- Lifestyle adaptation
- Easing pain or fear
- Tapping into your own resources
- Reorientation
- Dealing with emotions
- Facing death (or transition)
- Finding creative solutions