How Does Mainstream Medicine Treat COPD?
Mainstream medicine's approach to COPD is inhalers and a smoking lecture.
Breathless on the stairs. A spirometry number. LAMA, LABA, steroid. Oxygen when the number drops. Exacerbation? Prednisone and an antibiotic. Then the same hard-to-climb stairs.
Sound like your last doctor's appointment?
What Does Mainstream Medicine Miss About COPD?
Commonly missed root causes of COPD include mucus load, chronic infection, reflux, deconditioning, and ongoing inflammation.
Mucus load, chronic infection, reflux, deconditioning, and a remaining inflammatory fire that inhalers only partly touch. "You smoked" can be true and still be an incomplete sentence.
The Atma Approach looks at you as a unique person. What is still stealing your remaining lung margin?
Has your doctor ever talked to you about these commonly missed root causes?
Commonly Missed Root Causes
How Can Atma Clinic Help With COPD?
Atma's doctors and nurse practitioners, certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine, work to find and treat the root cause of your COPD rather than only managing symptoms.
We help patients minimize — or entirely eliminate — their prednisone-every-winter-only plan, and solve the underlying root problem.
At Atma, our Medical Doctors (MDs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) go through intensive training to become certified in Advanced Functional and Integrative Medicine. They're certified and ready to get to the root of your issue.