Patient History – Functional Medicine Back to Basics

Power Health Talk with Dr. Martin Rutherford

https://youtu.be/EirkvQ1I97w In this episode of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the importance of doing a thorough patient history before any exams or testing are done. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com Hi, Dr. Martin Rutherford certified functional medicine practitioner author of the book power, health back to basics and clinic director at the power health, rehab and wellness here in Reno Nevada, and we've started a series that was probably gonna take quite a while To get through and that series is something we started several weeks ago. Actually, the technically the first part of the series was a presentation that we did called Wacom all medicine versus functional medicine and that kind of summarizes where the whole series is going. And then we did an intro video, another intro video. To summarize why we were going to do this and the reason that we're doing this? Is there's, a lot of people out there doing functional medicine there's, a lot of people out there. There's, a lot of stuff online. There there's just and and and we have at this office, we have put over six or seven hour, 100 hours online, more or less hardcore scientific data relative to the different types of chronic conditions that are out there and the kind of conditions That we treat the fibromyalgia, peripheral, neuropathy, chronic fatigue, dizziness vertigo, balance, quite irritable, bowel syndrome and and it's, all it's, all got power, health, talking, calm and and and from those we got a lot of a tremendous amount of Positive feedback, but we also got a lot of. Why can't? You tell me, then how to fix me why you're holding back on me, you're, not telling me, you know. Well, I don't, have my supplement line to sell to you that probably isn't going to help a lot of you and and and there's. A reason for that, and and we can't - tell you, and so that was the genesis of this series. Functional medicine was perceived to be a very very my first seminar I went to the the doctor was teaching. It said this is not. This is complex. This is not easy. If you're looking online and you're, getting supplements for people for for your or they're, getting supplements for themselves. You're still playing whack-a-mole. You're, still giving a supplement for a symptom that's for people, a hundred six hundred you know 100 years ago, or sixty years ago we there's. A new patient population and autoimmunity is what's, defined that patient population, chronic stress responses. We're, going to talk about a little bit today, define that patient population and that's. The chronic pain patient or the chronic condition patient and we need to go back to old school. This was the initial seminar I went to and we need to learn how to diagnose, and we need to learn how to assess our patients and, and so that is what the that's. What generated this whole series today? We're, going to talk about the history we ' Ve talked about functional medicine in general, we've talked about last week. We talked about obstacles secure and the vast majority of the obstacles to cure that we talked about. Last week we're, not that you have a none curable disease, but they were more about things relative to maybe a person's, ability to even embrace this type of a protocol, but I urge you to to watch it. We talked about things like sleep apnea not being addressed, and so there's, a number of things there that are obstacles to cure, meaning meaning no matter what you do. No matter what you get on the diet. You do your brain or you have exercises you do yoga. You do acupuncture you do whatever you're doing and it's,