Assessments

We offer a complete health & lifestyle assessment as well as several condition-specific assessments that you, the health practitioner, can select from to assess your patients’ needs and recommend the nutritional best suited to each. Each assessment leads to a review by you (and one of our Nutritional Consultants, where indicated) and enables you to identify and effectively prioritize your patients’ care, especially the nutritional components. Read about our assessments below.

Complete Health & Lifestyle Assessment

This is our most comprehensive assessment and enables you to readily identify the most appropriate supplement, health and lifestyle recommendations based on each patient’s:

• Lifestyle and diet
• Genetic predispositions and functional health
• Cholesterol biomarkers (optional)
• Family medical history and current medical conditions
• Prescription Information (see Drug Interactions)
• Personal health and lifestyle goals

New patients are encouraged to thoughtfully complete the first section “Context of Care” in addition to the “Main Assessment”. Paying special attention to enter specific health concerns in the open text fields presented. This provides you with a comprehensive medical and lifestyle history which includes individual health conditions, concerns, medications goals and expectations around their care with you. Without exception Health Practitioners using our systems relate that a level of understanding and access results that markedly improves their patient interactions.

Joint Support Assessment

This assessment focuses on joint pain caused by osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis of weight bearing joints (knees, hips, back). This assessment uses WOMAC (Western Ontario Mac Master), a validated medical questionnaire designed specifically for the assessment of lower extremity pain and lifestyle function in persons with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee or hip. It is considered an excellent tool to monitor the course of lower body joint disease or to determine the effectiveness of interventions.

This assessment also takes into consideration any joint pain medications the patient may be taking. Our recommendations augment the benefits of medications by:

• supplying the nutritional building blocks needed for the repair and rebuilding of joint structures
• replenishing any nutrients depleted by joint pain drugs
• minimizing the risk of medication-related side effects

Cholesterol Support Assessment

This assessment uses the cholesterol figures from your lab results and key related questions to assess the nutritional support your patients need to help manage their cholesterol and associated lipid levels more effectively.

• Supplements along with the right changes in diet and lifestyle can normalize cholesterol values in many individuals; without any of the side effects associated with cholesterol lowering drugs.
• The benefits of supplementation can often result in a decrease in dose (or even sometimes the ability to discontinue use) of cholesterol lowering drugs.
• Supplements can replenish nutrients depleted by cholesterol-lowering medications; reducing risk for drug side effects that occur as a result of deficiencies in critical nutrients.
  

Immune Support Assessment

To help strengthen natural immunity to reduce the chances of catching a cold or flu and other infectious illness.

Our Immune Support Assessment:

• Facilitates understanding of what lifestyle factors might be compromising an individual’s natural immunity and increasing their risk of colds, flu and infections.
• Specifies what nutritional support might improve immune system’s response to colds, flu and infections
• Helps ensure those receiving Flu Shots can benefit (assisting seroconversion)
• Screens out supplements that may not be safe or appropriate for the individual

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