Welcome To Functional Healthcare Solutions

Darcy D. Dane, Mdiv, DC

Functional Healthcare is most likely a new concept for you and you are reading this because you are not well and are interested in taking control of your health. A functional approach to healthcare is radically different from the approach of standard medical practitioners. Functional healthcare practitioners take into account whole body interactions rather than looking at part of the body as if it were separate from the rest of the body. Functional healthcare has two focuses, functional neurology and functional biochemistry. Please take a moment and review the functional health diagram below.

Functional Healthcare focuses on diagnosing and correcting the dis-ease or disease processes within the body and central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).  The fact is, the brain controls and coordinates all functions of the body. Without brain function, there is no life. Brain-Body-Brain communication happens at lightening speeds. One signal can affect multiple systems of the body and multiple divisions of the nervous system. The divisions of the nervous system and body systems are highly interrelated.

How does the brain communicate with the body?  The brain and body communicate via action potentials across cellular membranes.  For proper function, a delicate chemical balance in the body is required at all times. Every cell has receptors that are activated by specific chemicals. When the body is unable to maintain this chemical balance, symptoms occur, illness and disease develops. Symptoms can be clinical (you are aware of them physically) or subclinical (you are not aware of them). Symptoms are a sign of aberrant function (imbalance). Symptoms can be helpful clues, but they are not the underlying issue.

Under the functional healthcare system of treatment, we look at two things:

1. What is off balance?

2. Why is it off balance?

Therefore, our treatments are unique protocols designed specifically for you in order to help achieve your health goals by combining the sciences of functional neurology and functional biochemistry.

Image credits: Michal Marcol, Graur Codrin