(EMAILWIRE.COM, August 24, 2010 ) Greenville, SC – A huge source of frustration for both patients and their health care providers is that so many health problems would improve, at least partially, if the patient adopted healthier lifestyle habits. Yet change feels hard, and the mere idea of attaining wellness doesn’t normally get people exercising, stopping smoking, staying away from foods they don’t digest well or adding more servings of fruit to their diet To help health care providers help their patients change, Functional Medicine University includes instruction on assessing a patient’s readiness to change (www.functionalmedicineuniversity.com).

“If you understand where someone is on the spectrum of readiness to change, you can give them the suggestions they can best absorb at that moment,” explains Dr. Ron Grisanti, D.C., founder and leader of Functional Medicine University. “For example, when someone has just made a sincere commitment to change their lifestyle, you want to tell them about rewards and substitute behaviors, while someone who’s already made changes and then relapsed needs a different kind of encouragement and support.”

Functional Medicine University is a postgraduate online educational program for health care professionals, including chiropractors, acupuncturists, naturopaths and medical doctors, who want to help patients attain wellness, not just symptom relief. Through recorded lectures, interactive diagnostic reviews and a lively online forum where instructors answer questions from training participants, those in the program learn to master the theory, practice and advanced diagnostic tools of the Functional Medicine perspective.

Modules in the program cover the GI system, inflammation, environmental toxins, endocrine imbalances, immune system problems and many other topics as well as patient readiness to reduce health stresses.

Functional Medicine University’s next training session gets underway in September 2010. For full details, including FMU’s liberal payment plans and arrangements for continuing education credits, health care professionals already holding professional licenses should visit www.functionalmedicineuniversity.com.

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Functional Medicine University
Dr. Ron Grisanti
Tel: 864-292-0226
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