If you want holistic health, you need a doctor that takes a holistic medical approach to medicine and your health. Integrative medicine embraces 
conventional and alternative medicine as part of the whole. Holistic medicine doctors seek to treat mind, body, and spirit as one. Our doctors utilize both models combining conventional medicine with holistic medicine.
Let's face it, no one could deny the incredible advances in conventional medical sciences. These advances have brought a vast understanding to the physical processes of the body, but little understanding to matters of the mind and spirit. Still we know that stress, major life changes, and other mental / spiritual problems can have a large impact on our physical health. This is where eastern medicine (alternative medicine) shines by offering practical and effective solutions for these problems.
In both Eastern and Western medicine, our integrative medicine doctors have completed rigorous medical training at accredited medical schools. They use their training in both modern and traditional techniques to integrate scientific and empiric knowledge. Their patients get an unbiased approach to medicine as a whole. One way to think about what they do is simply, bridging the gap between alternative medicine and conventional medicine.
As natural medicine doctors, they have learned from many of their patients, that this integrative approach is a welcome change. Many conventional doctors shun the techniques of alternative doctors, and alternative practitioners do the same to conventional doctors. "We embrace the whole of medicine, concerned only with finding the right combination of treatments that work for our patients." See what others are saying about the integrative doctors at Southwest Integrative Medicine.
Three basic principles inform our integrative and holistic medical approach:
- Medicine as art
- Reverence for the wisdom of nature
- Patients at the center of care
Our integrative medicine doctors bring the knowledge of Western medicine and the wisdom of Eastern medicine together. This is done to provide the least invasive more effective treatments for each patient. Give us a call or send us and email to see how integrative medicine and holsitc doctors can help you.