Functional Medicine 209 - Evaluating and Addressing Common Chronic Patient Conditions

Course overview

Evaluating and Addressing Common Chronic Patient Conditions is a 1-hour course developed by a Chiropractor with over 40 years of experience. Dr. Richard Powers, DC has a passion for helping to guide people towards better health and an enhanced quality of life. This course presents a summary of Dr. Powers research and experience. The main objectives of this course include; presentation of simple model of disease progression, identifying underlying causes of disease, analyzing factors that predispose patients to disease, devising an evaluation algorithm for testing recommendations, reviewing novel in-office testing procedures, developing interpretation skills to evaluate results, prioritizing treatment plans to address short and long-term goals, creating awareness of supplements and communicating a functional medicine model to patients. The ideas and concepts presented in this course are relevant and beneficial to the allied health professions.