Arizona Wellness Medicine

Expect to spend approximately 120 min at the office for your initial visit, including check-in and check-out time. You will spend about 90 min of face-to-face time with your physician.  Comprehensive review of your case will take place by your physician prior to your visit to ensure a productive first encounter.

During your visit you can expect review and discussion of:

• Your functional medicine timeline (your personal health and life story of how you arrived at your current condition)
• Current symptoms, concerns, and health goals
• Past medical history and surgical history
• Previous laboratory results/tests and consultations
• Current allergies, medications, supplements
• The 5 foundations to health (nutrition, sleep, exercise and movement, stress management, and toxin exposure)
• Head-to-toe physical exam
• Laboratory investigation and/or consultations needed to complete your functional medicine work up

After your visit you will receive a detailed and comprehensive visit summary via our state-of-the-art patient portal with your personalized Functional Medicine Assessment and Plan including:

• How to prepare for and complete laboratory testing
• Recommendations on additional consultations or referrals if needed
• Action steps on what to do for each of the 5 foundations of health, including links to videos and handouts as well as all of the key resources to set you up for success
• Any changes and/or additions in medications and/or nutritional supplements
• When to follow up
• An invoice you can submit to your insurance company

Your first 2 follow-up visits will be 60-minutes, to allow adequate time for review of your case and results with you, as well as time spent before and after your visit reviewing laboratory results, forms and/or journals you may have been asked to fill out, and formulation of your care plan.  Subsequent follow-up visits are typically 45-60 minutes in length, however, shorter follow-up visits for brief discussions and simple follow up lab work in between regularly scheduled appointments may be booked as you and/or your practitioner see fit.

Arizona Wellness Medicine offers wellness packages for those serious about getting their health on track using Functional Medicine.

Packages

Our 3-visit initial package includes one initial 90-min visit, and 2 60-min follow-up visits.  We also have 3-visit 45-min and 60-min regular follow up packages available at a 10% discount.  You have 12 months from the time of purchase to use your package visits.  Your physician will determine the frequency of your follow up visits, as you improve you will typically need less frequent visits.

The Institute for Functional Medicine teaches practitioners how to assess the patient’s status relating to modifiability lifestyle factors and fundamental clinical imbalances through careful history taking, physical examination, and laboratory testing. As Functional Medicine Practitioners we look at body systems and address clinical imbalances.