If you are on Medicare and are looking for a primary care doctor, look no further then the Lam Clinic. When you receive senior primary care services at the Lam Clinic, the well-qualified staff there provides care for general illness and injury with a focus on the needs of seniors, like you. If you are seeking a long-term professional relationship with a primary care provider that understands the needs of seniors, you need look no farther than the Lam Clinic. We provide care for mild to moderate illness or injuries along with general routine wellness evaluations, such as a Free Annual Wellness Visit provided to all Medicare Members.
At the Lam Clinic, our doctors will put together a plan for your health that is specific to you that helps you make good lifestyle choices to lower your risk of illness or injury. You can rely on the providers at the Lam Clinic to keep your health care on track or get you well on the road to recovery.
We accomplish whole person care through an on-going, individual relationship with your other healthcare professionals. We focus on integrated care and help coordinate all the care you need. In addition, we advocate for you through a complex health care system. All of our services start with and are consistent with a natural approach to helping you heal from any illness and encourage improving your life through better choices. We combine conventional medications with natural approaches to healing, choosing the latter when they work better.
Lam Clinic bills Medicare for functional medicine testing in order to get to the root cause of a patient's symptoms. Functional medicine testing goes beyond just regular serum blood testing. Depending on the diagnosis, this can include micronutrient testing (including vitamins and minerals), heavy metals and nutritional element testing, organic acid testing, urinary mycotoxin testing, hormone and cortisol saliva testing, SIBO breath test, comprehensive stool testing (including markers of digestion, dysbiosis, inflammation, leaky gut, microbiome mapping, parasite, and yeast). These tests are covered by Medicare depending on the diagnosis. IV nutrient treatments could potentially also be covered by Medicare depending on the indication. So call and schedule an appointment today to see if you are eligible for these in depth testing and treatments.
Are you on Medicare? Call us today for your Free Annual Wellness Visit. During this visit, our team will assess your needs, review your medical history, and develop an individualized care plan to keep you healthy.
Functional medicine is an approach that focuses on finding and dealing with the root cause of illness. Its goal centers on restoring the human body to optimum functioning.
Understanding genetic, lifestyle, and biochemical makeup
Possibly a much more important function in primary care is an emphasis on promoting good health and preventing illness. In addition to a full complement of counseling, screening, and other services focused on preventing illness and death, health maintenance activities include services designed to assure your best physical, mental, and emotional functioning throughout your life. Preventing a health problem always takes precedence over managing an issue that may rush out of control. Doing this costs less, takes place faster, and works better. Above all, regular appointments with your healthcare professional allow him or her to catch problems that may not yet present symptoms that are known to you.
Elite Workup
Overview
Your team at Lam Clinic takes care of your whole health. Your Elite Workup is truly all-encompassing! Please allow 90 minutes which will give you and your provider a well-rounded comprehensive view of your health. After your Elite Workup we will go over all of the testing and come up with a customized healthcare plan to optimize your health. Then, these results and plans are discussed at your Elite Workup Follow-Up Appointment 3-4 weeks later in order to allow time for all testing and results to be processed. Let's make you whole!
Ankle Brachial Index for Screening of Peripheral Artery Disease
Neuropathy and Sudomotor Function Analysis
Autonomic Nervous System Assessment
Endothelial Function Analysis
Lifestyle Assessment Including Body Fat % through Body Plethysmography
Advanced Lab Work
Lung Function Testing
Advanced Lipid Panel Testing
Urinalysis
EKG
Limited Ultrasound of Carotid Artery, Abdominal Aorta, and Heart
Patients may also qualify for multifaceted brain wave testing to assess brain performance.
Women’s Health
Women experience unique health care challenges. Some issues regarding health that affect both men and women affect women differently. However, certain diseases hit women far more often than men. These include chronic illness conditions that lead to death far more often in women than in men. Complex interactions among hormones, emotional issues, and physiological changes can exist in women depending on their phase of life. Sex hormones influencing reproduction and development bring on a set of specific health issues in women. Primary care providers at the Lam Clinic understand these unique health issues and how some conditions affect women differently from men.
Men's Health
As with women, men experience some health issues more frequently, and they also experience some unique health issues. Prostate cancer, low testosterone, lung cancer, Parkinson’s disease, HIV infections, and coronary heart disease affect men more often than women. In addition, men more often neglect regular and routine visits to their healthcare professional. Likewise, they tend to drink and smoke more and to make more risky and unhealthy choices. Most of the health threats for men, however, are vulnerable to prevention efforts and early diagnosis. Therefore, this makes screenings very valuable. And with primary care at the Lam Clinic, healthcare professionals provide the screenings and counseling that men need in order to deal with or prevent the health issues they face.
Chronic Disease Reversal
According to the World Health Organization, 63% of deaths around the world in 2016 came because of chronic illness conditions. Cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, and obesity proved to be the most frequent culprits. A major part of primary care at the Lam Clinic is not just managing your chronic disease symptoms, but working towards chronic disease reversal. People live longer because of advances in medicine, but often spend the last half of their lives dealing with chronic illness. Many of these chronic illnesses come about because of poor choices in diet. The National Council on Aging reports 77% of Americans dealing with two or more chronic illness conditions as they age. Many of these chronic conditions get much better or resolve with better nutrition. Inflammation lies at the root of many chronic conditions. And inflammation often begins in your gut. Poor nutrition leads to imbalances in your gut, called dysbiosis. Once this condition takes hold, changes occur in your gut that lead to foreign particles, viruses, and bacteria getting through the lining of your gut and into your bloodstream. This triggers your immune system to begin activating to protect your body from the invasion. As you continue eating poorly, the invasion grows. As a result, this often makes your immune system go into a hyperactive mode in order to counter the growing threat to your body. When this happens, inflammation grows as well. All too often, your immune system begins attacking healthy cells as well as unhealthy ones in its attempts to defend your body. This is the beginning of many chronic illnesses. Healing your gut through better nutrition can be a critical step in the process of dealing with a hyperactive immune system and increased inflammation.
Other Services and Steps
In addition to improving your diet, healthcare professionals at the Lam Clinic will help you learn to deal with the stress in your life. Living a healthy, low-stress life will go a long way toward reversing chronic conditions.
Another step in your effort to reverse chronic illness has to do with improving your intake of micronutrients. These micronutrients often do not occur in the standard American diet; therefore, you need to supplement your diet. A deficiency in these micronutrients increases the risk of developing several chronic conditions.
In addition, removing other stressors in the form of chemical toxins from your environment will increase your chances of reversing chronic illnesses. Some of these toxins come from cigarette smoke, gasses emitted from carpets and dry cleaned clothes, chemicals in cleaning products and makeup, toxins in the environment, extra body fat, and recurring infections.
