• Integrative Medicine: the discipline of identifying, validating and applying the most valuable interventions available to the patient in question, prioritizing each intervention  based upon risk-benefit ratio.

• Mission Statement

  Our focus at Total Health is to optimize human potential. The encouragement of efficient healing through effective repair is to enhance and reflect the “Intelligent Design” built into this creation called human. A step wise, “peeling the layers of an onion”-  approach enables the goal of functional health maintenance with potential for prospective predictability. Our ideal is coordination of interventions and application of protocols prioritized with risk/ benefit analysis the guide. Exhausting one modality of less risk, you move to the next level. Smooth integration of pathways up to and including the EMS system is the goal, with higher acuity care less preferred given health maintenance in mind.  We seek wisdom from above in our quest for health while acknowledging our earthly mortality. Your health is our business, not your illness. Grow with us.

• Risk benefit ratio: R/B is a concept that drives our therapeutic decisions. We want to keep this as low as possible, obtaining the maximum benefit that we are seeking with minimum side effects

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• Prolotherapy: the injection of a "proliferant", or substance that encourages normal inflammation, the repairative response. Fibroblasts, programmed to produce collagen when injured, do so in response to osmotic stunning. Targeted to ligaments, tendons and other connective tissue, strengthening occurs.
• Chelation: a term derived from the Greek "chele" meaning claw. The action by which detoxifying chemicals called chelators remove metals. Recent experience has determined that chelation of mercury, lead and other toxic metals is effective in the treatment of autism.
• Endothelium: the lining of the artery, the health of which determines function.
• Endovascular therapy:  this is the global discipline the goal of which is improved endothelial health. Endothelial health is a  hot topic in contemporary cardiology literature. 
•  Dysbiosis: an imbalance of the intestinal microorganisms resulting from more unfriendly organisms than friendly. A balanced, healthy micorflora in the gut is essential to a healthy body.
• Inorganic toxicology: the discipline and methods used to remove toxic metals from the system. Mercury, lead, cadmium, antimony, excessive copper are examples of this group.
• Organic toxicology: the discipline of removing toxins made primarily of carbon. Pesticides, petrochemicals, drugs, smoke, tar, PCB's, etc. fall into that group.
• Nutrition: the science of what is required to be eaten in order to remain healthy and active. Growth, repair, immunity and maintaining quality of life in general require a unique program to match  individual requirements.
• Natural Hormone Therapy: the management of an individual's hormonal system with nutrition, hormonal precursors or the bio-identical hormones themselves to adjust to a healthy, pre-senescent state. Goals are normal, balanced levels present in young adulthood.
• IV therapy, (intravenous therapy), is used to by-pass the GI tract. Dysfunctional bowel can result in poor absorption and resultant depletion of vital nutrients. Agents used to detoxify are often more efficiently delivered by this route due to digestive breakdown or poor absorption.
• Autism: a neurodegenerative condition of the brain that occurs in children. Increasing epidemiological and clinical evidence suggest mercury and other heavy metals as triggers of the condition in genetically susceptible children.
• Antioxidant: a nutrient that provides electrons. The removal of electrons is oxidation. Without electrons, substances themselves become oxidants, in essence destructive in nature. These free radicals are felt to be associated with degenerative disease.
• Cover crop: when a farmer wishes to reduce weeds in a given plot while laying over prior to a new crop, a "cover crop" is sometimes applied. Vigorous, the cover crop competitively crowds out other weeds, providing a uniform cover. In the intestinal tract, this concept can also be applied.
• Probiotic: good germs, friendly to our internal mileau. An abundance of friendly, balanced microorganism in the gut are essential to health. 
• Immunity: The ability to defend the body against viral, bacterial and fungal  invaders. The process of distinguishing between self and non- self and distinguishing between functional and non functional cells, are complex activities, easily disturbed.
• Energy stewardship: balanced energy allocation to functions neccessary for healthy life. Stress and unhealthy lifestyle throws this into an unbalanced state that compromises repair and accelerates degeneratioin.
• Double blind, placebo controlled study: the " modern" gold standard by which proof in clinical research is measured. An attempt is made to control all but one variable.  The intervention is given to some patients, a placebo to others, with neither the investigator or the patient knowing which subject is given the intervention and which is not. The results are tabulated, measured and statistically analyzed;
• Outcomes studies: Patients are observed and functional parameters quantified before and after a protocol is applied. The program may have multiple components. Functional parameters are usually reflected in patient satisfaction. Improved cost/ benefit and risk/benefit ratios are also goals that can be measured. There are multiple variables, but focus on minimizing risk/benefit minimizes uncertainty and the result, or outcome, is quantified. Outcomes analysis is the "post modern" approach that will enable patients and health care managers to achieve mutally acceptable goals.
• Geschtalt: to pull multiple points of view, disciplines, variables, and ways of looking at things into one conceptual representation of the issue.