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Functional versus
Pathological
By Dicken Weatherby, ND
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Medicine and health care are undergoing a paradigm
shift. We are seeing more and more demand from our patients to look
at their complex cases from a holistic rather than a mechanistic
or reductionistic perspective. In order to do this we need to have
diagnostic methods that focus on physiological function as a marker
of health, rather than merely the presence of pathology or tissue
change as a marker of disease. The following lists the differences
between a reductionistic, pathological view of the body, and the
view of the body as functioning physiology.
Functional |
Pathological |
- The
body is viewed as a dynamic and complex interconnected system
of mind, body, and emotions.
- Emphasis
is placed on identification of areas of imbalance or dysfunction
in normal physiology.
- Diagnosis
integrates data from many different systems and methods.
- Treatment
addresses the underlying causes of dysfunction.
- Major
focus is spent on both subjective and objective information
gathering based on a concept of optimal physiological function.
- Allows
for an early prediction of dysfunction.
- Health
is measured along a wellness continuum, which is a spectrum
moving from health to disease. Intervention can be made
at every stage of the spectrum to restore and/or improve
health and wellness.
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- The
body is viewed as a “machine” composed of separate
systems reduced into its constituent parts.
- Emphasis
is placed on the identification of disease or pathological
tissue change.
- Diagnosis
is extremely specialized.
- Treatment
is based on reducing symptoms.
- Major
focus is spent on how the patient is doing based on charts,
statistics, and test results etc. that are measured against
a statistical “normal population”.
- Relies
on late stage development of disease as a marker.
- Health
is measured as an absence of disease. As long as you do
not have a disease, you are considered healthy.
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