Klinic Integrative Medicine

Medical Doctor
Integrative Medicine Practitioner
Cosmetic Physician
Naturopathic Medicine Physician
Chinese Medicine Practitioner
Acupuncturist
Clinical Nutritionist
Medical Herbalist
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Naturopathic Medicine

Naturopathic medicine is a distinct method of primary health care -an art, science, philosophy and practice of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness. Naturopathic physicians seek to restore and maintain optimum health in their patients by emphasizing nature's inherent self-healing process, the vis medicatrix naturae. This is accomplished through education and the rational use of natural therapeutics.your users know a little more about you.


Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a system of primary health care that includes acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, remedial massage (anmo tuina), exercise and breathing therapy (such as qigong), and diet and lifestyle advice. In Australia, the most popular forms of TCM health care are acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine has an uninterrupted history of development in China and other parts of East Asia dating back thousands of years. The primary feature of modern TCM is the premise that good health relies on the restoration and maintenance of harmony, balance and order to the individual.

TCM takes a wholistic approach to understanding normal function and disease processes and focuses as much on the prevention of illness as it does on the treatment.


Clinical Nutrition

It is a branch of complementary medicine which seeks the ultimate cause(s) of an illness/disease and then prescribes a treatment scheme that is drug-and-surgery free. Usually, this involves the use of highly sophisticated diagnostic tests available to modern science, designing a diet that matches the nutritional/physiological needs of the patient, modifying patient?s lifestyle, detoxifying, and supplementing patients with the required micro-nutrients targeted at specific chronic health issues.

​The application of nutrition and health science to enable individuals to maximize their health potential. It can help treat a wide range of medical conditions and assist in the recovery from many ill-health situations. Nutritional therapists work with clients with chronic health problems and provide advice on prevention and control. These treatment protocols can impact on hormonal, neurological& immune function.” ​


Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicine is the oldest and still the most widely used system of medicine in the world today. It is medicine made exclusively from plants. It is used in all societies and is common to all cultures.
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There are many different "types" of herbal medicine that spring from different cultures around the world. All these have the use of medicinal plants in common, but they vary in the plants they use, the way they prepare and use medicines from these plants, and the philosophy of their treatment approaches. Different cultures may also use the same plants but differ in how it is used, or the part they use.

In Australia the most commonly found cultural types of herbal medicine are Western, Aboriginal, Chinese and Ayurvedic (Indian), although there are also many other cultures represented in Australia that utilise their own unique and traditional herbal treatments.


Aesthetic Medicine

Aesthetic Medicine is a developing clinical subspecialty and field in scientific research aimed at the use of minimally invasive cosmetic treatments to enhance patients' satisfaction with their physical appearance. This subspecialty is no longer limited to the fields of plastic surgery and dermatology, as many specialties are offering aesthetic medical procedures in order to better accommodate their patients' aesthetic needs. A growing trend among baby boomers is that aesthetic treatments are part of a normal health routine with the goal of maintaining a natural and healthy appearance.


Regenerative Orthopaedics, Traumatology & Pain Medicine

Physical Therapy is an integral component of care at Progressive Health & Rehabilitation. Physical Therapy defined is “a treatment that helps individuals improve or restore physical function, reduces pain, assists in the healing process and ultimately prevents disability.”

The discipline in which cell, tissue, or organ substitutes are used to enhance the healing potential of the body and ultimately restore injured or diseased tissues to their normal functions— is tightly intertwined with the future of rehabilitation and physical therapy profession.


Acupuncture - Traditional, Electro-acupuncture & Laser acupuncture

The origins of acupuncture in China can be traced back at least 2000 years, making it one of the oldest and most long-standing health care systems in the world. Today, acupuncture is an effective, natural and increasingly popular form of health care that is being used by people from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds.

Acupuncture takes a wholistic approach to understanding normal function and disease processes and focuses as much on the prevention of illness as on the treatment.

Acupuncture treatment involves the insertion of fine, sterile needles into specific sites (acupuncture points) along the body's meridians to clear energy blockages and encourage the normal flow of qi through the individual. The practitioner may also stimulate the acupuncture points using other methods, including moxibustion, cupping, laser therapy, electro-stimulation and massage, in order to re-establish the flow of qi.


Biological Medicine

Biological Medicine is born in part out of the health care practices of European homeopathy and homotoxicology, anthroposophical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and the ancient medical system of Ayurveda. The primary goal of Biological Medicine is the support or the restoration of teleological forces of development and self-healing. It basically involves methods of diagnosis and therapy whose guiding principle is the maintenance and furtherance of the human bio-system and its regulatory mechanisms.
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Biological Medicine is holistic in that it holds the view that the living system is a matrix of interconnectedness - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It is committed to the balance and harmony of the individual’s outer environment and inner milieu. Hence, environmental toxins, life-style, social and professional influences, one’s ecological terrain and genetic information are all vital factors in the individualized evaluation and treatment of one’s health.