If you’re dealing with a chronic illness, persistent symptoms, or a complex diagnosis, it can be frustrating feeling like you don’t have the full picture. At Kare Health & Wellness our approach using functional and integrative medicine offers another way to look deeper into your health, understand how different factors may be connected to the root cause, and explore additional options for care.
- Functional medicine is still medicine. Our approach is grounded in medical science, clinical testing, patient history, and evidence-informed care while taking a broader look at potential root contributors to symptoms.
- Chronic and complex conditions often require a deeper investigation. We have more than 15 years of experience working with patients facing concerns such as Lyme disease, POTS, autoimmune conditions, chronic fatigue, digestive issues, hormonal imbalances, chronic inflammation, mold-related concerns, and persistent unexplained symptoms.
- You don’t have to choose between functional and conventional medicine. Functional medicine can work alongside care from your primary care physicians, specialists, oncologists, cardiologists, neurologists, rheumatologists, and other providers.
- Your full health history matters. Longer appointments and a more comprehensive look at symptoms, lab work, medications, lifestyle factors, nutrition, hormones, gut health, inflammation, environmental exposures, and other factors may help uncover connections that are easy to miss when symptoms are considered separately.
- Care should be individualized to the patient. Depending on your needs, we can take a central role in your care or serve as an additional resource, coordinator, advocate, and support system alongside your existing healthcare team.
- Patients in Springfield Missouri and throughout the Ozarks have another option. If you’re newly diagnosed, struggling with ongoing symptoms, or simply looking for another perspective, our approach using functional and integrative medicine can provide additional insight and support.
Let’s take a closer look at each of these key points in more detail.
You Have More Options Than You May Realize
One of the hardest things for us to hear from a patient is, “I wish I had known about you sooner”.
We hear it from our patients who’ve spent months or years navigating chronic illness, seeing specialists, completing tests, trying treatments, and still feeling like they don’t fully understand what is happening in their body before they came to see us.
Others have just received a life-changing diagnosis and are searching for what to do next. Many simply didn’t know our type of care existed.
At Kare Health & Wellness, we specialize in helping patients with chronic and complex health concerns.
For more than 15 years, we’ve used a functional and integrative medicine approach to look deeper, ask more questions, and help our patients understand their options.
Functional Medicine Is Still Medicine
Functional medicine is sometimes misunderstood as being completely alternative or opposed to conventional healthcare. That isn’t how we practice.
Our approach is grounded in medical science, clinical testing, patient history, and evidence-informed care. We simply expand the investigation.
That means longer appointments, more comprehensive testing when appropriate, and looking at how different systems in the body are connected.
Rather than focusing only on a diagnosis or individual symptom, we may explore factors involving inflammation, nutrition, hormones, gut health, metabolism, environmental exposures, lifestyle, and more.
Our goal is to better understand the whole person and potential root cause contributors to create an individualized plan that may include both conventional and alternative supportive therapies.
Experienced Care for Chronic and Complex Conditions
Over the past 15 years, our functional medicine team has worked with patients facing a wide range of chronic and complex health concerns, including Lyme disease and tick-borne illness, POTS and dysautonomia, autoimmune conditions, chronic fatigue, digestive concerns, hormonal and metabolic dysfunction, chronic inflammation, environmental and mold-related concerns, persistent unexplained symptoms, and supportive care during cancer treatment.
Every patient’s situation is different. Functional medicine isn’t a promise of a cure, nor does it replace emergency care or specialists when they are needed.
What it can provide is another perspective, another layer of support, and another medical professional in your corner.
You Don’t Have to Choose One or the Other
Seeing a functional medicine provider does not mean you have to stop seeing your oncologist, cardiologist, neurologist, rheumatologist, primary care physician, or other specialists.
Many of our patients get treatments at Kare alongside their traditional medical care. We can serve as an additional resource, helping you understand what is happening, explore supportive options, make sense of testing and symptoms, and look at your health from another perspective.
For some patients, we take a central role in their care.
For other patients, we act more as a coordinator, advocate, and support system while they continue treatment with their specialists.
It doesn’t have to be an either/or decision.
When Your Health Is Complicated It’s Worth Looking Deeper
Complex health problems rarely fit neatly into a short appointment. Years of symptoms, multiple diagnoses, medications, previous lab work, lifestyle factors, and specialist visits can create a complicated picture.
That’s why we take the time to hear your story. What has already been tried? When did your symptoms begin? What makes them better or worse? Are different symptoms connected? Are there areas that haven’t been investigated yet?
Sometimes, looking at all the pieces together can reveal a very different picture than looking at each symptom separately.
The Original Functional Medicine Experts in Springfield, MO
If you’ve recently been diagnosed with a chronic illness, are struggling with persistent symptoms, or simply feel like you need another perspective, you have options.
For patients throughout Springfield, Missouri and the Ozarks, Kare Health & Wellness offers an experienced functional and integrative approach to chronic and complex illness.
We believe our patients deserve time to ask questions, understand their health, and participate in decisions about their care.
If you’re searching for a functional medicine provider in Springfield, MO, help with a chronic or complex illness, or an integrative provider who can work alongside your existing healthcare team, we’re here to help.
You don’t have to navigate a complicated health journey alone. You have more options than you may realize.
