Integrative Healthcare Pathways

In addition to Athletic Performance, Functional Health and Performance is a leader in working with people to achieve their health goals.  This has included anything from body composition and fat loss to back pain and stress reduction.  Success has been in the form of integrating therapies such as Corrective Exercise and Strength Coaching, The Bowen Technique, Kinesio Taping, Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching and Functional Medicine.

Here at FHP we are looking at the future of effective healthcare that delivers results for the individual.  It is not about ticking boxes, jumping through hoops or anything political.  It is purely about how somebody best alleviates their pain, increases their energy, improves their movement and ultimately enhances their health and happiness.

"The goal of all human activity should be Happiness" - Aristotle

Integrative Healthcare Information for Patients

Are any of these related to your Health Goals?:

• Back Pain and Joint Pain
• Stress Management
  
• Energy and Fatigue
• Body Composition and Fat Loss
• Blood Sugar Control
  
• Respiratory and Breath
  
• Enhanced Movement and Activity Levels
• Sports Injuries
  

Do you want to achieve your Health Goal with the most effective methods?

Have you tried countless other methods/therapies without the long-term success you are looking for?

Do you feel like you are only treating the symptoms and now you want to get to the Root Cause?

Integrative Healthcare may be of benefit for you.  The model developed at Functional Health and Performance integrates several assessment and therapy methods in order to create a program that gets to the root cause, whilst working with your strengths to achieve your health goal:

• Bowen Technique | Structural Integration
• Corrective Exercise
• Strength and Conditioning
• Individual Nutrition - Metabolic Typing/BioSignature
• Functional Diagnostic Medicine
• Practitioner Referral Network

Although dynamic and flexible here is a look at the step-by-step system used to achieve your health goals:

1. Two-Hour Comprehensive Assessment
2. Further Assessment Criteria to be completed and returned
3. Feedback Appointment
4. One-to-One Sessions incorporating;
   
   1. Individual Corrective Exercise and Strength Conditioning
   2. Bodywork - The Bowen Technique
   3. Postural alignment and Structural Integration
      
   4. Scientific Back Training and Core Conditioning
   5. Biomechanics and Movement Patterns
      
   6. Inflammation reduction
   7. Energy restoration
      
   8. Pain Management and Injury Prevention Strategies
   9. Recovery, Repair and Healing Strategies
   10. An Integrated Healthcare Practitioner Referral System

• The following Assessments will be selected where appropriate:
  
  • Medical History, Injury and Health Appraisal
  • Postural Analysis
  • • Quantitative measurement including Spinal Curvature and Weight Shift
    • Qualitative observation
  • Muscle Strength Testing
  • Muscle Length-Tension (Flexibility) Assessment
  • Functional Movement Screens
  • Core Function Testing
  • Structural Balance
  • Body Composition Measurement
    • BioSignature Modulation
    • Metabolic Type
  • Physiological Load Assessment
  • Adrenal Stress Index
  • Functional Diagnostic Medicine options

Information for Integrative Healthcare Professionals

The mission at Functional Health and Performance is to continue developing a model that integrates methodologies and therapies into a system that enhances quality and effectiveness for patients.  In my opinion this includes how we view the human form as an integrated system of systems, but also how we work together as different practitioners with different methodologies.  You may be wondering as a practitioner, how my field of expertise can integrate with yours?

If so please read any of the following relevant documents:

Integrative Healthcare - Corrective Exercise and Strength Coaching

Integrative Healthcare - Individual Nutrition (Coming Soon)

Integrative Healthcare - Structural Integration / The Bowen Technique (Coming Soon)

Integrative Healthcare - Functional Diagnostic Medicine (Coming Soon)

Part of the Team at the Pioneering 'Northern Integrative Health Practice'