ASHLAND COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE

At Pacific Crest Integrative Medicine, our extensive range of services caters to individuals in various life stages. From comprehensive primary care to specialized women’s health, pediatrics, and geriatric care, our holistic family practice model ensures that every patient receives the personalized attention they deserve.

Functional Nutrition takes an integrated approach to each patient’s genetics, biochemistry, and lifestyle factors. This information can then be leveraged to direct personalized treatment plans that lead to better health outcomes. Let us embrace your uniqueness and use it to tailor individualized nutrition recommendations. We can use personalized lab testing, functional foods, nutraceuticals, and lifestyle interventions to further your healing process. Together we can find a nutrition plan that is realistic for your lifestyle, while also reducing unwanted symptoms and restoring balance in the body.

Our Medical Assistants on staff coordinate the ordering of all of our functional medicine specialty labs. Laboratories include: Doctors Data, Genova Diagnostics, Genelex, Great Plains, Cleveland Heart Labs, Real Time and Precision Analytical.  Once received, labs are interpreted by your primary health care provider.

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment is a hands‑on approach employed by osteopathic physicians in treating dysfunctions and disorders of all kinds.  Part of osteopathic training includes many hours of manual diagnosis and treatment of somatic dysfunction, which is any abnormality of bone, muscle, joint, ligament, tendon, fascia, etc., that hinders normal motion or function.  By removing the hindrances to normal function, the body is able to repair itself, thereby resolving pain, improving range of motion, allowing for proper flow of vital fluids, normalizing nerve signaling, and more.

OMT is performed by utilizing a range of treatment techniques that can involve very gentle to very firm pressure, sometimes applied over a prolonged time or even quite abruptly.  The patient may not be able to perceive anything being done, or may experience significant, but generally brief, discomfort.  Some treatments are passive and the patient simply lies still, while others require cooperative efforts with the physician to produce the desired effects.

Most treatments provide improvement of symptoms in a timely manner that may be immediate, but can also take days to be realized.  Occasionally there is discomfort following treatment, but that should not last more than the remainder of the day of treatment or perhaps the day following.  Any worsening of pain or symptoms that do not resolve should be reported to the treating physician for further care.