Helping healthcare providers optimize patient outcomes and grow their medical practice
There's no denying therapeutic lifestyle change does a better job treating chronic disease than the pharmacologic symptom-management approach used in traditional health care. Functional medicine providers dig deep, using extensive lab work and evaluations to find the root system associated with disease - to destroy the weed as opposed to pruning its leaves with meds - managing symptoms, but never resolving the underlying problem.
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No root system will ever look the same, but there are a few commonalities; poor diet, little rest, excess stress, and lack of exercise. Address this and you can resolve most chronic disease without drug interventions. This is the functional medicine approach in its most basic sense.
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Certified health coaches are experts in behavior change. Dr. Chris Kresser calls them "behavior change ninjas", and sustainable behavior change is the difference between effective clinical intervention and failure. For a doctor who is passionate about using root-cause medical interventions - this is a critical step. Without compliance, there can be no treatment in this model of care.
But, what happens when diet and lifestyle changes aren't followed through? A recommendation like this can be ambiguous, overwhelming, and much harder for a patient to "take" than a prescription pill.
THIS is where the Health Coach comes into play - bridging the gap between the need for healthy behavior change and the implementation of it.
Having a health coach as part of a collaborative care team is truly the X-Factor. It's like having an interpreter and an implementation department in one. If the doctor is prescribing diet and exercise, the health coach is helping the patient interpret what that means and then implement it in their day-to-day lives.
How Can Essential TLC Help?
Essential TLC Consulting helps you, the healthcare provider, optimize patient outcomes by creating a collaborative doctor-patient-health coach flow that fits your niche, in your practice and with your established team.
