Peter Ferraro, D.C. Shares his Views on Optimal Medicine

Then the patient may work with my nutritionist or my dietician to see how we can stimulate their metabolism and use nutraceuticals or supplements, allowing the body to self-direct or heal itself. Then we may follow-up with what I do or my physical therapist does in the integrative phase of the care – it is non-invasive and allows the body to restore a state of homeostasis  through realignment of the spine or readdressing the muscular system through physical therapy. We may do an assessment to discern if there is a disc herniation or disc injury and treat it through our non-surgical spinal decompression.

For those patients that come in possibly at a later stage where they have left things go longer than they should have, they may be in a position where the first course of care may be a medication or an injection to reduce inflammation. The goal is to get the patient to a point where their pain has been decreased. Then we try to bring them back through the guidelines of integrative, metabolic and back to anticipative care, where they are righting their own bodies and getting back to that principle of homeostasis.