“The best doctor in the world is the patient, empowered with the right knowledge and tools to heal themselves.”

- Dr. Coby Hanes

Why I chose to practice Functional Medicine

Early in my practice I used nutrition and herbal medicine to help my patients achieve their desired goals. I found that by modifying patients’ diets and adding supplements to correct nutritional deficiencies, the results were far better than simply providing a chiropractic adjustment by itself.
I consider Functional Medicine to be Root Cause resolution medicine. Rather than treating a patient’s myriad symptoms, the astute Functional Medicine physician looks upstream to identify what may be causing those symptoms in the first place. It is an evolution of healthcare that shifts the focus away from the traditional symptom and disease-centered care to a truly patient-centered approach. It engages both the patient and physician in a therapeutic partnership where the patient’s story becomes paramount. Functional Medicine practitioners spend much more time listening to the patient’s history (story) in order to understand how various genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors may be contributing to the patient’s health challenges. Functional Medicine addresses the whole person and supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
Functional Medicine has evolved from the latest in underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease.
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Dr. Coby Hanes, DC, IFMCP
Chiropractic & Certified Functional Medicine Physician
Functional Medicine is constantly evolving and incorporates the newest discoveries in cell biology, psychology, neurology, immunology, endocrinology, genetics and clinical nutrition. I use these new discoveries in my systems-oriented approach to understand the Root Causes of chronic disease.
A good Functional Medicine practitioner is a very good detective and takes the time to listen to each person’s story about how their current health challenges began. I want to know when your health challenges first started and what was going on in your life at that time. Were you going through a divorce, did you suffer the loss of a loved one, or were you doing long-term care for a sick loved one? I want to know how you are sleeping, digesting and eliminating, do you have close friends and a good support network, do you have food sensitivities, seasonal allergies, or chemical sensitivities. And, I also want to know how your brain is functioning: do you have brain fog, trouble finding words, problems with balance, trouble concentrating or a loss of smell.
As a Functional Medicine physician, I look for the Root Cause of why things are not functioning properly in the first place. Compared to a typical medical visit, where you will likely have on average an 11-minute office visit and only be allowed to discuss one problem. Also, during a typical medical visit you will either be given a prescription or a referral to a specialist, whereas our approach is almost always to work with you on changing your diet and lifestyle. The patients who chose to come and see us understand that while drugs and surgery are sometimes necessary, they should never be the first-line of treatment and will never make you healthy. Treating symptoms instead of identifying the root causes of why the body is not functioning properly in the first place, is an outdated model that, sadly, is still the standard of care. If you would like to experience something complete new and different, I invite you schedule with us today.

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“The best part of my job is getting to see people experiencing Functional Medicine for the first time. They are often just as surprised as I was initially at how well it works.”

What is Functional Medicine?

Functional Medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, Functional Medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional Medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, Functional Medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.
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Fuctional Medicine changes the way we do Medicine because:

It offers a powerful new operating system and clinical model for assessment, treatment, and prevention of chronic disease to replace the outdated and ineffective acute-care models carried forward from the 20th century.
It incorporates the latest in genetic science, systems biology, and understanding of how environmental and lifestyle factors influence the emergence and progression of disease.
It enables physicians and other health professionals to practice proactive, predictive, personalized medicine and empowers patients to take an active role in their own health.
It is a personalized, systems-oriented model that empowers patients and practitioners to achieve the highest expression of health by working in collaboration to address the underlying causes of disease.
See more at functionalmedicine.org

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