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Regain Health with a Functional Medicine Doctor in Greater Kansas City MO

At Core Medical Center, we offer you the comprehensive care you need in order to make a full recovery. Functional medicine can help treat your pain without the need for risky surgeries or intensive medication use. If your chronic pain is holding you back in life, consider visiting Core Medical Center for our functional medicine.
We are more than just rehabilitative care at Core Medical Center. Our medical office also offers patients a variety of functional medicine treatment options.
Take back your life from the pain that's weighing you down. Schedule an appointment with Core Medical Center today.

What is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine treats the source of your pain --- without invasive, risky surgeries or addictive, expensive medications. The goal of functional medicine is to achieve permanent results. This comprehensive service combines different therapeutic treatments that can include functional therapy, chiropractic care, specialized bracing, and spinal decompression. Whether you've suffered an injury to your musculoskeletal system or need help managing chronic pain, functional medicine provides a safe and non‒invasive solution anyone can benefit from.
At Core Medical Center, we provide optimal chiropractic care to meet the needs of our patients. Our services can help you with back pain, spine pain, neck pain, low back pain, foot and ankle pain, nerve‒related conditions, and headaches.
Don’t live your life consumed with pain. Schedule an appointment today and get the healing your body needs.
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Conditions Our Functional Medicine Doctor Can Treat

At Core Medical Center, we believe in treating your conditions with a comprehensive array of services to help you live a better life. People seek chiropractic care for a range of reasons. Some of the conditions we treat that people may be experiencing include:
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Conditions like carpal tunnel, where a nerve becomes trapped, can be treated through functional medicine in order to restore proper function to the hand.
Sciatica
If you're suffering from sciatica, functional medicine can help reduce the pressure on the sciatic nerve that's causing your pain.
Chronic Pain
One of the central purposes of functional medicine is to alleviate chronic pain.
Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal cord injuries can often lead to chronic pain and other functional problems that functional medicine can help heal.
Neurological Disorders
The care provided during functional medicine can help alleviate pain and restore function after a neurological event like a stroke.

Advantages of Functional Medicine With Core Medical Center

Functional medicine can help alleviate a variety of pains and conditions you may be experiencing. At Core Medical Center, we work to provide comprehensive care to help you live a balanced and pain-free life. Some of the advantages of functional medicine include:
Pain relief
Chronic pain is a common occurrence after injuries. Functional medicine can help you achieve long-term pain relief.
Improved function and mobility
After suffering from an injury, your body's abilities may be impaired. By undergoing functional medicine, it's possible to help your body make a full recovery from the injury, including restoring your body's function and mobility.
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Why Choose Core Medical Center for Functional Medicine?

At Core Medical Center, we provide complete medical care and offer effective, nonsurgical solutions to symptoms such as pain, weakness, numbness, and loss of function. Because our focus is your overall wellness and health, we recommend approaches that can help prevent a problem from recurring in the future.
We also understand that some conditions require the use of prescription medications. While our office does not prescribe controlled substances for pain, we have an on-site physician who can prescribe various non-narcotic pain relievers. In some cases, pain creams that focus the medication directly on the target area can be utilized; these creams will not have a systemic effect as oral pharmaceuticals do.
Are you ready to take control of your health and pain? If you are, schedule an appointment with Core Medical Center today. We've helped many patients with our services, and we can help you too.

Functional Medicine FAQs

What does functional medicine mean?
Functional medicine refers to a specialty of health care that focuses on restoring the function of a person's body along with their quality of life.
Are PT and functional medicine the same thing?
Functional therapy and functional medicine are closely related, but not the same thing. Functional therapy assists in healing through the use of exercises to help strengthen the body, while functional medicine provides treatments to focus on specific points in the body.
Is functional medicine the same as pain management?
While functional medicine and pain management overlap, the two are not the same thing. Functional medicine, also known as physiatry, focuses on healing and restoring function to minimize pain. It's a common form of sports medicine that can also be found in rehabilitation clinics. Pain management, meanwhile, focuses entirely on eliminating the sensation of pain in the target area.
Is this covered under insurance?
If your insurance is medicare and commercial, we are in-network. They will cover it at whatever rate they are contracted and if its MVA is typically on lien or med pay or pip or both, work comp is covered by the carrier.

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