What is the term “medical integration” mean?
The concept is quite old since it combines the expertise of several practitioners working together, namely a medical doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist and any other type of health care practitioners.
Today, the medical integration model is vital given the current challenging world of global economics.
Indeed, we must do our utmost as a nation and certainly as health care practitioners, to help as many people as possible while maintaining reasonable fees for services rendered. Medical integration is no longer a novel idea created to divert the current type of care or even change the economic situation of the practitioners.
To the contrary the advantage and certainly the strength of an integrated medical center is that all practitioners join forces in combining their expertise and giving the patient their ultimate treatment to appropriately treat their condition, and all this can be done without affecting any practitioner’s philosophy.
What is even more encouraging is when medical integration adds the combination of a wellness approach, we now have an even greater innovated concept. As an example, before a patient receives any type of invasive treatment or is prescribed a series of painful and expensive remedy or even medicated with many possible side effects, the patient is offered the opportunity of a natural approach such as chiropractic, including any holistic approach and combining a wellness component by giving the patient the ability to choose from any alternative options.
Today, there are many well documented articles which clearly support the concept of giving the body the “opportunity to heal itself naturally with time” by strengthening the immune system without causing any other possible side effect to the rest of the body. This concept of preventative health care when included in an integrated medical center will help patients understand the need to stay healthy, maintain a proper diet, exercise and living a healthy life.
